2007 Minnesota Statutes

383C.036 CLASSIFICATIONS; EXAMINATIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Classified service. All regular employees holding positions which are placed
in the classified service under the provisions of sections 383C.03 to 383C.059 shall be permanent
members of the classified service without examination or working test period if they have been in
the employ of the county for five consecutive years or more, immediately previous to December
31, 1943, or when a regular employee has been transferred from the unclassified service to the
classified service and has been in the employ of the county for five consecutive years or more,
immediately previous to said transfer from the unclassified service to the classified service, and
all employees who have been appointed through merit examinations administered under authority
of Laws 1941, chapter 476, section 5, and who have not since been separated from the service
shall also be permanent members of the classified service without further examination or working
test period, except that any employee who has not completed a working test period as provided
under the rules of the merit plan, shall be on probation for that period of time of service otherwise
necessary to complete the working test period under the merit plan. All other employees shall not
be members of such classified service until such time as they shall have been appointed to such
position in accordance with the provisions of sections 383C.03 to 383C.059. The civil service
director subject to rules and regulations of the county civil service commission shall within two
years of the date the board of county commissioners of such county elects to avail itself of the
provisions of sections 383C.03 to 383C.059, prepare and offer once to all persons who, on the
date the board of county commissioners of such county elects to avail itself of the provisions of
sections 383C.03 to 383C.059, are incumbents of positions in the classified service with less than
five years of service, a qualifying examination that is designed to test fitness to perform the work
of the class to which the position has been allocated. No person holding an office for employment
in the classified service previous to December 31, 1943, who is required by sections 383C.03 to
383C.059 to take a qualifying examination shall be laid off, suspended, discharged or reduced
in pay or position, except in accordance with the provisions of sections 383C.03 to 383C.059
applicable to members of the classified service having permanent status until they have completed
such qualifying examination and shall have been notified of the results thereof. If such incumbents
pass such qualifying examination, they shall become permanent members of the classified service.
If, however, any of the aforementioned incumbents who are required by sections 383C.03 to
383C.059 to take a qualifying examination shall fail to pass the same, they shall be removed from
their positions at or before the expiration of three months following receipt of notice of failure to
pass such examination. All persons who shall willfully fail or refuse to take the examination when
offered without reasonable excuse, shall be removed from their positions immediately.
    Subd. 2. Education employees. All regular employees of the county board of education
on the effective date of Laws 1961, chapter 329, section 2, holding a position which is placed
in the classified service under the provisions of sections 383C.03 to 383C.059 shall be subject
to and have the benefit of all provisions of subdivision 1 of this section in like manner as all
county employees subject thereto on the effective date of Laws 1941, chapter 423, were subject
thereto and had the benefit thereof.
History: 1941 c 423 s 7; 1943 c 608 s 2; 1947 c 187 s 1; 1949 c 310 s 1; 1961 c 329 s
2; 1986 c 444