375.62 CIVIL SERVICE AND MERIT SYSTEM RELATIONSHIPS.
Unless a county board has elected to exclude any or all positions otherwise subject to merit
systems established pursuant to sections
12.22, subdivision 3,
144.071,
256.012, and
387.31 to
387.45, from the jurisdiction of the personnel department, the provisions of sections
12.22,
subdivision 3
,
144.071,
256.012, and
387.31 to
387.45 and any rules promulgated pursuant to
those sections shall be superseded insofar as they are inconsistent with sections
375.66 to
375.71,
but no positions subject to merit systems established pursuant to sections
12.22, subdivision 3,
144.071, and
256.012, shall be removed from existing merit system coverage and placed under
a personnel department established pursuant to sections
375.56 to
375.71, until that personnel
department is certified in accordance with the United States Office of Personnel Management's
standards for a merit system of personnel administration. Nothing in section
387.43, shall be
construed to prohibit the inclusion of sheriff's department personnel in a personnel system
established pursuant to sections
375.56 to
375.69.
History: 1976 c 182 s 7; 1981 c 317 s 3; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 70