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ARTICLE 64A

ARTICLE 64A.

MERIT SYSTEM.¹

	1. Definitions.	15-17. Salary Standards Board; duties;
	2. Classified service.	rules.
	3. Positions excluded from system.	18. Records; promotions.
	4. Commissioner of state employment	19-21. Resignation; probation; removal;
	and registration ; appointment ;	hearing after charges; abolition of
	term; salary; employees; expenses.	position; suspension, etc.
	5. Duties of commissioner; rules, force	22. Vacation and sick leave.
	of law.	23. Rules, when effective.
	6. Aid to commissioner. 7. Enforcement of article and rules; re- port.	24. Approval of payroll. 25. Governor may add to classified service.
	8. Classification of employees.	26. To aid cities and counties.
	9. Vacancies in classified service.	27. Offenses.
	10-11. Examinations; notice.	28. Penalty.
	12. Eligible lists.	29-30. Prosecutions and civil suits.
	13. Temporary or emergency employees.	31-33. How cited; repeal of inconsistent
	14. Schedules of compensation.	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.

Art. 27, Sec. 699, providing that employees of House of Reformation (now Cheltenham
School for Boys), on transfer of property to State, continue in same positions without
reference to this Article, held to be valid. Jones v. House of Reformation, 176 Md. 43.

¹ See art. 41, secs. 9 and 161, et seq.

² Formerly known as state employment commission—see art. 41, sec. 161.