2160 ARTICLE 64A.

ARTICLE 64A.

MERIT SYSTEM.1

1. Definitions. 2. Classified service. 3. Commissioner of state employment and registration; appointment; term; salary; employees; expenses. 4. Duties of commissioner; rules, force of law. 5. Aid to commissioner. 6. Enforcement of article and rules; re- port. 7. Classification of employees. 8. Vacancies in classified service. 9-10. Examinations; notice. 11. Eligible lists. 12. Temporary or emergency employees.

13-14. Schedules of compensation; forms for records; promotions, etc. . 15-17. Resignation; probation; removal; hearing after charges; abolition of position; suspension, etc. 18. Vacation and sick leave. . 19. Rules, when effective. 20. Approval of payroll. 21. Governor may add to classified service. 22. To aid cities and counties. 23. Offenses. 24. Penalty'. 25-26. Prosecutions and civil suits. 27-29. How cited; repeal of inconsistent laws.

1920, ch. 41, sec. 1.

1. In this Article and in all rules made hereunder, unless the context
otherwise requires—" Commissioner " means the Commissioner of State
Employment and Registration.2 " The classified service " means and in-
cludes all offices of profit or trust and all places of employment, whether
permanent or temporary, in the service of any State officer, department,
commission, board or institution, other than those in the military forces,
and other than those enumerated in Section 2 of this Article. " Classified
service position " or " position " means any office or place of employment
in the classified service. " Classified service employee " or " employee "
means a person who holds under the terms of this Article, a position in the
classified service, but shall not include a person employed by contract to
render a temporary special service for the State where such contract is
certified by the Commissioner of State Employment -and Registration to
be for a service that could not in his judgment be rendered by a person
in the classified service. " Class of position " or " class " means a group,
established under this Article of positions similar in respect to the duties
and responsibilities thereof and the qualifications required therefor.
" Classification title," " class title," or " title " means the designation
given, under this Article, to a class and to each position in the class and
to the employee in each position in the class. "Appointing authority"
means any commission, board or officer having power to make appointments.

1 See art. 41, secs. 9 and 117, et seq.

2 Formerly known as state employment commission—see art. 41, sec. 117.