2016 Code of Alabama
Title 41 - STATE GOVERNMENT.
Chapter 28 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
Section 41-28-3 - Appointment and compensation of secretary; personnel; transfer of employees.
(a) The Secretary of Information Technology shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The Secretary of Information Technology shall be responsible for the performance and exercise of the duties, responsibilities, functions, powers, and authority imposed upon the Secretary of Information Technology and the Office of Information Technology by law and shall be the principal advisor to the Governor on information technology policy, including policy on the acquisition and management of information technology and resources. The Secretary of Information Technology shall be in the unclassified service of the state Merit System and shall receive a salary in an amount to be determined by the Governor.
(b) The Secretary of Information Technology may employ all personnel of the Office of the Secretary of Information Technology, subject to the state Merit System, or if the employee is to be employed in a supervisory capacity, without regard to the provisions thereof. If supervisors are employed outside the state Merit System, the Secretary of Information Technology shall set the compensation of such employees in accordance with that of comparable positions established under the state Merit System play plan.
(c) If existing positions or divisions of state government are consolidated or eliminated as a result of the creation of the office, any state employees displaced may be offered the opportunity to transfer to available positions within the office for which they are qualified.
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