BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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terms; correcting an obsolete reference; and generally
relating to contractual employment of individuals by
the State,

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.

Article 64A - Merit System

Section 1 and 15A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1*72 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section (s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 64A - Merit System

1.

In this article and in all rules made hereunder, unless
the context otherwise requires—-"Commissioner" or
"Secretary" mean the Secretary of Personnel appointed under
Article 41, § 213, of this Code. "The classified service"
means and includes 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 § 3 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 terns of this article, a position in the
classified service, tut shall not include a person employed
by contract to render a temporary special service for the
State [where such contract is certified by the Secretary of
Personnel to be for a service that could not in his judgment
be rendered by a person in the classified service].
HOWEVER, ALL SUCH CONTRACTURAL EMPLOYMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 15A OF THIS ARTICLE. "Class of
position" or "class" means a group, established under the
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.

15A.

[It is the duty of the State Highway Administration to
submit to the State Secretary of Personnel, for his review
and approval, all contracts for personal service to be
rendered to the State Highway Administration.]