Source: http://kslegislature.org/li_2016/b2015_16/statute/075_000_0000_chapter/075_029_0000_article/075_029_0035_section/075_029_0035_k/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 06:41:52+00:00

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75-2935. Classified and unclassified services. The civil service of the state of Kansas is hereby divided into the unclassified and the classified services.
(cc) notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 22-4524, 32-802, 44-510g, 44-551, 44-552, 48-205, 48-919, 49-402e, 58-4105, 58-4503, 65-2878, 65-6103, 73-1210a, 73-1234, 74-515b, 74-561, 74-569, 74-631, 74-1106, 74-1704, 74-1806, 74-2435, 74-2614, 74-2702, 74-2906a, 74-5014, 74-5210, 74-6707, 74-6901, 74-6904, 74-7008, 74-7501, 74-8704, 74-8805, 74-9804, 75-118, 75-1202d, 75-2537, 75-2944, 75-3148, 75-3702c, 75-4222, 75-5005, 75-5015, 75-5016, 75-5122, 75-5157, 75-5309, 75-5310, 75-5378, 75-5610, 75-5702, 75-5708, 75-5733, 75-5910, 75-7028, 75-7054, 75-7304, 76-1002a, 76-1116, 76-12a04, 76-12a05, 76-12a08, 76-12a16, 76-3202 and 82a-1205 and K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 39-1911, and amendments thereto, any vacant position within the classified service may be converted by the appointing authority to an unclassified position.
(2) The classified service comprises all positions now existing or hereafter created which are not included in the unclassified service. Appointments in the classified service shall be made according to merit and fitness from eligible pools which so far as practicable shall be competitive. No person shall be appointed, promoted, reduced or discharged as an officer, clerk, employee or laborer in the classified service in any manner or by any means other than those prescribed in the Kansas civil service act and the rules adopted in accordance therewith.
(3) For positions involving unskilled, or semiskilled duties, the secretary of administration, as provided by law, shall establish rules and regulations concerning certifications, appointments, layoffs and reemployment which may be different from the rules and regulations established concerning these processes for other positions in the classified service.
(4) Officers authorized by law to make appointments to positions in the unclassified service, and appointing officers of departments or institutions whose employees are exempt from the provisions of the Kansas civil service act because of the constitutional status of such departments or institutions shall be permitted to make appointments from appropriate pools of eligibles maintained by the division of personnel services.
(5) On and after the effective date of this act, any state agency that has positions in the classified service within the Kansas civil service act to satisfy any requirement of maintaining personnel standards on a merit basis pursuant to federal law or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the federal government or any agency thereof, shall adopt a binding statement of agency policy pursuant to K.S.A. 77-415, and amendments thereto, to satisfy such requirements if the appointing authority has made any such position unclassified.
History: L. 1941, ch. 358, § 11; L. 1957, ch. 445, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 424, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 400, § 3; L. 1965, ch. 464, § 1; L. 1969, ch. 399, § 1; L. 1971, ch. 272, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 318, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 383, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 377, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 378, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 332, § 7; L. 1982, ch. 225, § 5; L. 1985, ch. 256, § 15; L. 1987, ch. 347, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 266, § 2; L. 1989, ch. 233, § 2; L. 1990, ch. 305, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 293, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 293, § 28; L. 1995, ch. 236, § 15; L. 1995, ch. 255, § 12; L. 1997, ch. 156, § 88; L. 1998, ch. 187, § 14; L. 1999, ch. 149, § 10; L. 2003, ch. 154, § 90; L. 2004, ch. 179, § 116; L. 2005, ch. 94, § 3; L. 2011, ch. 104, § 43; L. 2012, ch. 47, § 115; L. 2012, ch. 166, § 18; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 315; L. 2015, ch. 52, § 1; L. 2016, ch. 71, § 4; July 1.
Section was amended twice in the 1998 session, see also 75-2935f.
Section was also amended by L. 2012, ch. 65, § 28, but that version was repealed by L. 2012, ch. 166, § 24.

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