1368                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 636

title "Charles County" to follow immediately after Section 249
thereof to be under the new subtitle "Sanitary District" and to read
as follows:

249A.

The Charles County Sanitary District, Inc., created and organized
under the subtitle "Sanitary Districts" in Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition, as amended) may establish a
Merit System or classified service to include all of its employees
except the Secretary and/or Treasurer, engineering and legal con-
sultants, and casual employees, and to make such rules and regula-
tions as are necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of
this subtitle. The District may abolish, add to, change, or amend
such rules and regulations, from time to time; provided, however,
that all such rules and regulations and changes thereof shall be
approved by the State Commissioner of Personnel of Maryland, who
is hereinafter called the State Commissioner of Personnel.

249B.

The District shall establish a list of the positions and their corre-
sponding salaries to be included under the Merit System or classified
service and shall file this list, within six months after the effective
date of this subtitle, with the State Commissioner of Personnel. The
District from time to time thereafter, as it may deem necessary,
shall establish additional position classifications, and may combine,
alter or abolish existing classifications and salaries. Each additional
position classification established or abolished shall be submitted to
the State Commissioner of Personnel for his approval, giving the
reasons therefor. It is the duty of the State Commissioner of Per-
sonnel to give his approval or disapproval, with the reasons therefor
to the District, of said additional position classifications under the
Merit System established by the District, or any abolition thereof,
within sixty days after the receipt thereof by him. In the event
such approval or disapproval is not forthcoming within said period
of sixty days, the additional position classifications or abolishments
thereof, as proposed by the District shall become official and be
deemed the classified list of positions under the Merit System as if
the approval of the State Commissioner of Personnel had been given.

249C.

Promptly upon the filing of the list of positions and salaries under
the Merit System with the State Commissioner of Personnel, the
District shall prepare and hold examinations to establish a list of
persons eligible for appointment to vacancies in the various positions.
Examinations may be held by the District whenever it deems it
necessary to establish an additional list of eligible persons for any
position in the classified list. The examinations may be oral or
written, or in the form of a demonstration of skill, or any combina-
tion of these, and shall be of a character test to fairly determine
the relative ability of the candidate actually to perform the duty
of the classification to which he seeks to be appointed. All examina-
tions shall be submitted to the State Commissioner of Personnel for
his approval before being given. Examinations shall be competitive,
free and open to all persons who may be lawfully appointed to any