THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     93

(1)  Advise the Personnel Director and the Board of County Com-
missioners on matters of personnel policy and problems of personnel
administration, including but not limited to the development of per-
sonnel rules, a job classification plan, a uniform pay plan and salary
scale.

(2)  Make any inquiry which it may consider desirable concerning
personnel administration in the county government, and make recom-
mendations to the Board of County Commissioners with respect
thereto.

255G. The Personnel Director shall draft, in consultation with the
Personnel and Salary Advisory Board, such rules as may be necessary
to carry out the provisions of this sub-title. These rules shall be sub-
mitted for adoption by resolution of the Board of County Commis-
sioners. The rules shall have the force and effect of law when
adopted. Amendments to the rules shall be made in accordance with
the above procedure.

255H. (a) The Personnel Director shall make an analysis of the
duties and responsibilities of all positions in the classified service,
and he shall recommend to the Board of County Commissioners a job
classification plan. Each position in the classified service shall be
assigned to a job class on the basis of the kind and level of its duties
and responsibilities, to the end that all positions in the same class*
shall be sufficiently alike to permit use of a single descriptive title,
the same qualifications requirements, the same test of competence,
and the same pay scale. A job class may contain one position, or more
than one position.

(b) Within a reasonable time after the recommendation of the
initial classification plan by the Personnel Director, the Board of
County Commissioners shall, after public hearing, adopt a classifica-
tion plan, and direct the Personnel Director to allocate each position
to its appropriate class.

(c) The class to which each position is initially allocated following
adoption of this sub-title shall be the class in which the employee shall
have status conferred on him by Section 255C (d).

255-I. The initial classification plan shall be revised from time to
time as changing conditions require, upon recommendations of the
Personnel Director and with the approval of the Board of County
Commissioners. Such revisions may consist of the addition, abolish-
ment, consolidation, division, re-evaluation or amendment of existing
classes.

255J. Classification of the positions and duties to be performed
thereunder shall reflect primarily the function of the Department and
the performance desired.

255K. The Personnel Director under the direction of the Board
of County Commissioners and in consultation with such other ad-
ministrative officers as may be deemed necessary shall prepare a
pay plan and rules for its administration which may be amended in
whole or in part from time to time. The rate or range for each class
shall be such as to reflect fairly differences in duties and responsi-
bilities.