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Chapter 61 - General provisions as to offices and officers -- social security for public employees -- employees retirement system
61.371 Definitions for KRS 61.371 to 61.377.

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61.371 Definitions for KRS 61.371 to 61.377. As used in KRS 61.371 to 61.377, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Board" means the personnel board established by KRS Chapter 18A; (2) "Employer" means the officer, employee, board, commission, or agency authorized by law to make appointments to a position in public service; (3) "Military duty" means training and service performed by an inductee, enlistee, or reservist or any entrant into a temporary component of the armed forces of the United States, and time spent in reporting for and returning from such training and service, or if a rejection occurs, from the place of reporting therefor. "Military duty" shall not include voluntary active duty for training of an individual as a reservist in the Armed Forces of the United States; (4) "Position" means an office or employment in the public service, excluding an office filled by popular election; (5) "Public employee" means a person appointed to a position in public service for which he or she is compensated on a full-time basis, excluding elected officers; (6) "Public service" means employment by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or by any county, city, or political subdivision or by any department, board, agency, or commission thereof; and (7) "Seniority" means the increase in compensation, status, and responsibility resulting from promotion or step progression within a class of a classified service or promotion or increase in compensation, status, and responsibility in the unclassified service. Effective: June 29, 2023 History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 35, sec. 13, effective June 29, 2023. -- Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 1. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/29/2023). Under the authority of KRS 7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has changed the internal numbering of this statute to place the definitions in alphabetical order. The words in the statute were not changed.
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