[§46-34]  Civil service exemptions.  Anyother provision to the contrary notwithstanding in any county charter orotherwise, all employees of any county legal department of the executive branchshall be subject to chapter 76, except for the department head, all attorneys,law clerks, private secretary to the department head and positions undersections 76-77(7), 76-77(8), 76-77(11) and 76-77(12). [L 1977, c 30, §1]