Eligibility to be Placed on Reinstatement List. A permanent employee who is laid off, demoted in lieu of layoff, or whose compensation ordinance position is to be deleted as a result of the Board of Supervisors having had a second reading of an Ordinance amendment to delete the position, shall have his/her name placed on the reinstatement list for the class from which the employee is, or is to be, laid off or demoted in lieu of layoff. Employees shall be on the reinstatement list for three (3) years except that an employee who three (3) times refuses an offer of reinstatement to the class from which he/she was laid off, or to a class of equal status, or fails to respond to an offer of reinstatement, shall have his/her name removed from the reinstatement list following said refusal. In addition, if the employee on the reinstatement list is appointed to a class from which he/she was laid off, or to a different class of equal or greater status than the reinstatement list class, then his/her name shall be removed from the reinstatement list. An employee who accepts an offer of reinstatement to the class from which he/she was laid off shall also be removed from the reinstatement list upon the date of reinstatement. The placement on the reinstatement list shall be determined in the same manner as for the order of layoff except in the inverse order thereof. Employees on the reinstatement list shall have the first right of reinstatement to any vacancies in any department for the class for which he/she is eligible for such reinstatement, subject to the following:
