2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 90 - CITY CIVIL SERVICE
90.300 Definitions for KRS 90.310 to 90.410 -- Application.
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<![CDATA[90.300 Definitions for KRS 90.310 to 90.410 -- Application.
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In KRS 90.310 to 90.410, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) "Administrative or directorial position" means the head of a department of
municipal government;
(b) "Appointing authority" means the officer, commission, board or body
having the power of appointment or removal in any office, department,
commission, board or institution;
(c) "Civil service" means the offices and positions of trust or employment in
the service of the city not specifically excluded by KRS 90.310 to 90.410
or by ordinance of the city as provided in KRS 90.310;
(d) "Commission" means the board of civil service commissioners as
established under KRS 90.310;
(e) "Dismissal" means the discharge of an employee;
(f) "Employee" means any person employed in the conduct of municipal
affairs, but the term shall not include the mayor, city manager, city
administrative officer, or an administrative or directorial position. The term
"employee" shall not include the offices of the board of health, members
of the planning and zoning commission, the board of trustees of the public
library, members of the housing authority, municipal hospital commission
or the trustees, members or corresponding officers of similar boards or
commissions, persons employed on temporary and special projects or to
persons whose regular employments with the city are seasonal and are
less than nine (9) months in any one (1) year, persons in a class of
employees designated by ordinance to be non-civil-service positions, and
the city clerk or city assessor; and
(g) "Pension fund" means the moneys derived from the employees and the
levy of a special tax, either or both, or any other sum derived from any
other source, to be used for the retirement of employees after the
prescribed years of service and for the benefit of disabled employees, and
surviving spouses and dependent children in the case of death of an
employee within the scope of his employment according to the terms of
KRS 90.310 to 90.410 and the ordinance of the city.
The provisions of KRS 90.310 to 90.410 are independent of and do not affect
the laws governing the police and fire departments, nor their pension funds, as
provided in KRS Chapter 95.
Effective:January 1, 2015
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 78, effective January 1, 2015. -Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 178, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 307, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1974 Ky.
Acts ch. 386, sec. 12. -- Amended 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 1. -- Amended
1946 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3235h-1, 3235h-11, 3235h-11a,
3480e-1, 3480e-11.
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