2006 Utah Code - 67-5-8 — Eligibility for career service status.

     67-5-8.   Eligibility for career service status.
     (1) The attorney general has sole authority to determine who may be employed with the attorney general's office. No attorney employed by the state or any of its departments or agencies has any claim or right to a position in the attorney general's office by virtue of that employment.
     (2) An attorney employed by the attorney general's office shall be placed in a career service status if:
     (a) the attorney is a member in good standing of the Utah State Bar Association; and
     (b) the attorney has been employed by the attorney general's office as an attorney for a probationary period of no more than one year except as provided in Subsection (3), but in no event less than six months. No attorney now employed by the attorney general's office in career service may be terminated under this chapter except for cause.
     (3) The attorney general shall determine whether an attorney should be granted career service status. If, at the end of the probationary period established under Subsection (2), the attorney general determines that an attorney should be granted career service status, the attorney general shall notify the attorney in writing of that decision and place a copy of the notification in the attorney's personnel file. If the attorney general determines that career service status should not be granted, the attorney general may either terminate the attorney or extend the probationary period for a period not to exceed one year. The attorney general shall notify the attorney in writing of that decision and place a copy of the notification in the attorney's personnel file. An attorney terminated under this section has no appeal rights under this chapter.
     (4) Attorneys in career service status under this chapter shall retire upon attaining the age of 70 years. Attorneys required to retire under this section may be employed by the attorney general after retirement as special assistant attorneys general. Any attorney employed in this capacity is not in career service status and is subject to termination as any other attorney employed by the attorney general who is not in a career service status.

Amended by Chapter 203, 1985 General Session