<br><br>18A.010 General purpose of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 -- Total number of <br>employees limited. <br>(1) The general purpose of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 is to establish for the state a <br>system of personnel administration based on merit principles and scientific methods <br>governing the recruitment, examination, appointment, promotion, transfer, lay-off, <br>removal, discipline, and welfare of its classified employees and other incidents of <br>state employment. All appointments and promotions to positions in the state <br>classified service shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness, to be <br>ascertained by competitive examination, except as hereinafter specified. The <br>General Assembly finds that this chapter is necessary in order to improve the <br>morale and motivation of state employees and to gain the maximum utilization of <br>human resources in order to provide better service to the citizens of this <br>Commonwealth. <br>(2) The total number of permanent full-time personnel employed in agencies of the <br>executive branch shall not exceed thirty-three thousand (33,000). <br>(3) The provisions of subsection (2) of this section do not apply to employees of the <br>General Assembly, the Legislative Research Commission, the Kentucky Higher <br>Education Assistance Authority, the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan <br>Corporation, or the Court of Justice. <br>Effective: July 15, 1996 <br>History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 350, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1996. -- Repealed, <br>reenacted, and amended as KRS 18A.010, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 2, effective <br>July 15, 1982 and created in part ch. 381, sec. 8, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created <br>in part 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 1. <br>Formerly codified as KRS 18.120. <br><br>