2012 Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
CHAPTER 32. DELAWARE HERITAGE COMMISSION
§ 3202. Delaware Heritage Office; personnel thereof; exemption of Executive Director from merit system.

(a) There is hereby established the Delaware Heritage Office of the Delaware Public Archives.

(b) The Delaware Heritage Office shall be headed by an Executive Director, who shall be a person qualified by education and experience to perform the duties of the position. The Executive Director shall be exempt from the State Merit System and shall be appointed by the Secretary of State upon the recommendation of the Director of the Public Archives in consultation with the Commission. The Executive Director shall be subject to removal, with or without cause, by the Secretary of State after consultation with the Commission and the Director of the Public Archives.

(c) The Delaware Heritage Office may employ such other personnel as the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director of the Public Archives and the Commission, shall determine to be necessary to perform the work of the said Office. Such additional personnel shall be State Merit System employees and shall by hired through the Merit System employment process. The Office shall be under the administrative authority of the Director of the Public Archives and shall assist the Commission in carrying out its duties and functions as set forth in § 3203 of this title.

29 Del. C. 1953, § 9902; 58 Del. Laws, c. 179; 61 Del. Laws, c. 319, §§ 1, 2; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 318, § 2.;