J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            457

Defense; "Classified Position" or "Position" means any office in the
classified service; "Classified Service Employee" or "Employee"
means a person who holds, under the terms of this sub-title, a posi-
tion in the classified service, but shall not include a person employed
by contract to render a temporary or special service for the county.

45E. The County Commissioners shall promptly after June 1,
1961, adopt rules and regulations governing the following subjects:

(1)  Standards and qualifications for each position within the clas-
sified system and a classification title for each such position.

(2)  Minimum and maximum salary schedules with provisions for
increments based on term of service for each classified position. Once
adopted, such salary scales shall not be decreased. Such minimum
salary scales shall be equal to State minimum salaries for correspond-
ing job classifications.

(3)  The employment of employees of the classified service, which
rules and regulations shall provide a schedule of hours of employ-
ment, holidays, sick leaves and vacations, and which rules and regu-
lations may be amended or added to by the County Commissioners.

(4) The method of selections of new employees, including suitable
provision for competitive examinations and notice of vacancies.

45F. Upon the adoption of classifications and salary schedules
for each position in the classified service, those employees who on
January 1, 1961 filled the respective positions shall automatically and
without examination, become a classified employee of the classified
system, subject to all of the provisions hereunder; provided that an
employee receiving a higher salary than that provided in the salary
schedule shall not have his or her salary decreased, or increased un-
til adjustments for increments to which he or she is entitled shall have
exceeded the salary being received, and provided further that each
employee shall be classified in that position, the duties of which he
had been performing for at least six months prior to January 1, 1961.

45G. The County Commissioners, when an emergency arises and
time will not permit compliance with the provisions of this sub-title
or any regulation adopted thereunder may make an emergency ap-
pointment for a period not to exceed four months, and such employee
shall be known as an emergency employee and have no status as a
classified employee.

45H. The County Commissioners shall by rule prescribe standards
of performance, for any positions or classes of positions and the
County Commissioners shall have authority to provide facilities for
special training to increase the efficiency of new and old employees.

45-I. (a) An employee may be permanently separated from the
classified service through resignation, rejection on probation or re-
moval for cause, and may be temporarily separated through sus-
pension pending charges, or leave of absence granted at the request
of the employee.

(b) The County Commissioners may at any time before the ex-
piration of a probationary period, to be prescribed by rule, which in
no event shall exceed six (6) months, discharge any person appointed
to a classified position. The employee so discharged shall be considered
permanently separated from such position.