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      Sec. 5-198. Positions exempt from classified service. The offices and positions filled by the following-described incumbents shall be exempt from the classified service:

      (a) All officers and employees of the Judicial Department;

      (b) All officers and employees of the Legislative Department;

      (c) All officers elected by popular vote;

      (d) All agency heads, members of boards and commissions and other officers appointed by the Governor;

      (e) All persons designated by name in any special act to hold any state office;

      (f) All officers, noncommissioned officers and enlisted men in the military or naval service of the state and under military or naval discipline and control;

      (g) (1) All correctional wardens, as provided in section 18-82, and (2) all superintendents of state institutions, the State Librarian, the president of The University of Connecticut and any other commissioner or administrative head of a state department or institution who is appointed by a board or commission responsible by statute for the administration of such department or institution;

      (h) The State Historian appointed by the State Library Board;

      (i) Deputies to the administrative head of each department or institution designated by statute to act for and perform all of the duties of such administrative head during such administrative head's absence or incapacity;

      (j) Executive assistants to each state elective officer and each department head, as defined in section 4-5, provided each position of executive assistant shall have been created in accordance with section 5-214;

      (k) One personal secretary to the administrative head and to each undersecretary or deputy to such head of each department or institution provided any classified employee whose position is affected by this subsection shall retain classified status in such position;

      (l) All members of the professional and technical staffs of the constituent units of the state system of higher education, as defined in section 10a-1, of all other state institutions of learning, of the Department of Higher Education, and of the agricultural experiment station at New Haven, professional and managerial employees of the Department of Education and teachers certified by the State Board of Education and employed in teaching positions at state institutions;

      (m) Physicians, dentists, student nurses in institutions and other professional specialists who are employed on a part-time basis;

      (n) Persons employed to make or conduct a special inquiry, investigation, examination or installation;

      (o) Students in educational institutions who are employed on a part-time basis;

      (p) Forest fire wardens provided for by section 23-36;

      (q) Patients or inmates of state institutions who receive compensation for services rendered therein;

      (r) Employees of the Governor including employees working at the executive office, official executive residence at 990 Prospect Avenue, Hartford and the Washington D.C. office;

      (s) Persons filling positions expressly exempted by statute from the classified service;

      (t) Librarians employed by the State Board of Education or any constituent unit of the state system of higher education;

      (u) Employees in the senior executive service;

      (v) All officers and employees of the Division of Criminal Justice;

      (w) One executive assistant to the chairman of the Office of Health Care Access, provided such position shall have been created in accordance with section 5-214;

      (x) Professional employees of the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Social Services;

      (y) Lieutenant colonels in the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety appointed on or after June 6, 1990, and majors in the Division of State Police within the Department of Public Safety appointed on or after July 1, 1999;

      (z) The Deputy State Fire Marshal in the Division of Fire, Emergency and Building Services within the Department of Public Safety;

      (aa) The chief administrative officer of the Workers' Compensation Commission;

      (bb) Employees in the education professions bargaining unit;

      (cc) Disability policy specialists employed by the Council on Developmental Disabilities; and

      (dd) The director for digital media and motion picture activities in the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

      (1967, P.A. 657, S. 7; 1969, P.A. 336; P.A. 75-316, S. 18; P.A. 76-254, S. 2, 11; P.A. 77-573, S. 22, 30; P.A. 79-621, S. 3-5, 24; P.A. 81-457, S. 2; P.A. 82-218, S. 38, 46; P.A. 85-353; P.A. 87-397, S. 1, 2; 87-518, S. 1, 5; P.A. 88-309, S. 3, 6; P.A. 89-354, S. 1, 21; P.A. 90-325, S. 12, 32; 90-337, S. 3, 8; P.A. 92-130, S. 2, 10; P.A. 93-206, S. 2, 16; 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-429, S. 1, 7; 93-435, S. 89, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 96-168, S. 2, 34; P.A. 97-148, S. 5, 8; P.A. 99-163, S. 2, 9; P.A. 01-195, S. 5, 181; P.A. 03-19, S. 11; P.A. 05-256, S. 6; P.A. 06-135, S. 13; 06-172, S. 4; P.A. 07-158, S. 6.)

      History: 1969 act added Subdiv. (t) exempting state-employed librarians in education; P.A. 75-316 substituted state library board for state library committee; P.A. 76-254 amended Subdiv. (i) to allow department and institution heads more than one deputy as designated by statute, deleting provision for designation by the administrative head; P.A. 77-573 substituted "board of higher education" for "commission for higher education" and "10-322a" for reference to repealed Sec. 10-322 in Subdiv. (l); P.A. 79-621 amended Subdiv. (j) to provide exception to its provisions, amended Subdiv. (k) to provide personal secretaries for undersecretaries and deputies and added clause protecting classified employees affected by change, broadened scope of Subdiv. (r) to include executive office and Washington D.C. office employees and added Subdiv. (u); P.A. 81-457 amended Subdiv. (u) to exempt senior executive service employees rather than senior civil service employees from the classified service; P.A. 82-218 replaced board of higher education with department of higher education pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 85-353 added Subdiv. (v) exempting all officers and employees of the division of criminal justice from classified service; P.A. 87-397 added Subdiv. (w) exempting one executive assistant to the chairman of the commission on hospitals and health care from the classified service; P.A. 87-518 amended Subdiv. (j) to repeal limit on the number of executive assistants; P.A. 88-309 amended Subdiv. (l) to exempt professional employees of the vocational rehabilitation division from classified service; P.A. 89-354 deleted professional employees of the vocational rehabilitation division from Subdiv. (l) and added new Subdiv. (x) re exempting employees of the bureau of rehabilitation services from classified service, effective July 1, 1990; P.A. 90-325 changed the effective date of P.A. 89-354 from July 1, 1990, to 60 days after the determination by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services of the U.S. Department of Education that department of human resources meets all applicable federal statutory and regulatory requirements to be designated as sole state agency to administer the state plan for vocational rehabilitation services and that proposed bureau of rehabilitation services within the department meets all applicable federal statutory and regulatory requirements as a vocational rehabilitation organizational unit, i.e. July 1, 1991; P.A. 90-337 added new Subdiv. concerning lieutenant colonels in division of state police; P.A. 92-130 added Subdiv. (z), exempting deputy state fire marshal from classified service. ; P.A. 93-206 amended Subdiv. (z) to substitute division of fire, emergency and building services for division of fire and building safety, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of department of social services for department of human resources in Subdiv. (x), effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-429 and P.A. 93-435 both added Subdiv. (aa) to exempt the chief administrative officer of the workers' compensation commission from the classified service, effective July 1, 1993, and June 28, 1993, respectively; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-168 added Subdiv. (bb) concerning employees in the education professions bargaining unit, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-148 added Subdiv. (cc) re special deputy sheriffs, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 99-163 amended Subdiv. (y) by adding majors in the State Police, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 01-195 made a technical change for the purposes of gender neutrality in Subdiv. (i) and deleted Subdiv. (cc) re special deputy sheriffs, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 03-19 made a technical change in Subdiv. (l), effective May 12, 2003; P.A. 05-256 added new Subdiv. (cc) to exempt disability policy specialists employed by the Council on Developmental Disabilities from classified service, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subdiv. (l) by replacing "State Board of Education" with "Department of Education" and including managerial employees of said department, effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 06-172 added Subdiv. (dd) re the director for digital media and motion picture activities in the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 07-158 amended Subdiv. (g) by inserting Subpara. designators (1) and (2), inserting "correctional wardens, as provided in section 18-82," in Subpara. (1) and designating existing provisions, except "wardens", as Subpara. (2), effective July 1, 2007.

      See Sec. 11-2 re exemption of certain state library personnel from classified service.

      Annotations to former statute:

      Assistant attorney general engaged to aid bank receiver in receiverships held not employed to make "special installation". 133 C. 340. Cited. 152 C. 568.

      "Incumbents" defined. 9 CS 123. Voting machine commissioner and trustee of the Connecticut State Hospital are exempt from the merit system. 10 CS 346. Administrative head of the Israel Putnam Camp Ground exempt under subsection (j). 12 CS 378. Cited. 13 CS 297.

      Annotations to present section:

      Cited. 176 C. 1. Cited. 192 C. 399.

      Cited. 32 CS 323.

      Subdiv. (n):

      Cited. 183 C. 128.