2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 90 - CITY CIVIL SERVICE
90.180 Appointments to positions in classified service -- Probationary appointments.
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90.180 Appointments to positions in classified service -- Probationary
appointments.
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All appointments to positions subject to the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230
shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness, to be determined by
competitive examinations, except in the case of emergency appointments
which may be made only in accordance with the definition given in KRS
90.110; provided that all original appointments, except emergency
appointments as defined in KRS 90.110, shall be probationary appointments
for a period of not less than six (6), nor more than twelve (12), months, after
which probationary period regular appointments shall be given to all
probationary employees who are deemed to be satisfactory by the respective
appointing authority.
Except in the case of emergency appointments as defined in KRS 90.110, all
appointments to positions subject to the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230
shall be made by appointing authorities only from an eligible list certified by the
personnel director as qualified and eligible for appointment from an appropriate
eligible list as defined in KRS 90.110; provided however, that all employees
holding positions subject to the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230 on the
effective date thereof who were holding positions in classified service under
provision of previous acts, shall be considered as having satisfied hereunder all
of the qualifications for obtaining and holding such appointments as they then
had, and further provided that all employees holding positions subject to the
provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230, on the effective date thereof, and who
were not holding positions in classified service under provisions of previous
acts, shall be considered as having satisfied hereunder all of the qualifications
for obtaining and holding original appointments under KRS 90.110 to 90.230,
and shall be considered as having been given probationary appointments, as
defined in KRS 90.110, as of the effective date thereof.
History: Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 5.
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