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26:2B-9.  Division of alcoholism;  establishment;  director;  assistant; officers and employees
    There is hereby established in the Department of Health a Division of Alcoholism under the direction of a division director.  The director shall be an individual with training and experience in such areas as public administration or public health or rehabilitation and training in the social sciences or a qualified professional with training or experience in the treatment of behavioral disorders or medical-social problems, or in the organization or administration of treatment services for persons suffering from  behavioral disorders or medical-social problems.

    There shall be an assistant to the director, who shall have experience in the field of alcoholism.

    The director and his assistant shall be appointed by the commissioner, with  the consent of the public health council.

    The commissioner shall appoint and may remove such officers and employees of  the division as he may deem necessary.  There shall be an administrator of each  facility operated by the department pursuant to this act.  Each such administrator shall be a person qualified by training and experience to operate  a facility for the treatment of alcoholics or intoxicated persons. The  commissioner may establish such other positions in the division and employ such  consultants as he may deem appropriate. Except as otherwise provided by law,  all offices and positions in the division shall be subject to the provisions of  Title 11, Civil Service; provided, however, that the provisions of said title  shall not apply to the director, physicians and psychiatrists who have full  medical-psychiatric, as opposed to administrative responsibility;  and  provided, further, and notwithstanding the preceding proviso or any other  provision of law, that all offices and positions, which as a condition of  receiving Federal grants for programs and activities to which Federal standards  for a merit system of personnel administration relate and make necessary the  application of provisions of the Civil Service law, shall be subject to the  provisions of Title 11, Civil Service, if such Federal standards are uniform in  all states.

     L.1975, c. 305, s. 3.