Title 41 — State Government

A. Beginning September 29, 2012, unless otherwise prescribed in this article: 1. All new hires are at will uncovered employees. 2. Any employee who meets any of the following criteria is an at will uncovered employee: (a) Is employed as an attorney in a position assigned to the a…

A. The director is responsible for the direction and control of personnel administration. B. The director shall: 1. Employ staff as necessary to perform the duties prescribed by this article. 2. Establish those offices as the director determines necessary to maintain an effective…

Any provision of this article that conflicts or is inconsistent with federal rules, regulations or standards governing the grant of federal monies to any agency or department of this state does not apply to the agency or department. The director may vary or waive the terms of the…

A. Except as provided in subsection C of this section or section 41-742, subsection A, an employee under covered service is entitled to continue to be a covered employee as long as the employee remains in covered status without a break in service or as otherwise provided by law. …

A. The director may refuse to consider for employment or remove from consideration for employment any applicant who: 1. Has practiced any deception or fraud in the applicant's application. 2. Has failed to reply within a reasonable time to communications concerning the applicant'…

A. An appointing authority shall comply with the procedures prescribed in this article and the rules adopted by the director for the recruitment, selection, hiring and separation of employees in the state personnel system. The appointing authority shall prescribe the compensation…

A. The director shall adopt procedures for the transfer of accumulated annual leave from one employee to another employee in the same state agency and for transfer of accumulated annual leave from one employee to another state employee in another state agency if the employees are…

A. A state agency head shall report to the director if an employee is placed on administrative leave with pay during the investigation of alleged wrongdoing by the employee when the employee's administrative leave totals eighty consecutive hours and, thereafter, shall report to t…

A. All state agencies shall contribute a pro rata share of the overall cost of personnel administration services provided by the department. The pro rata share shall be payable by payroll fund source, and the resultant amount shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35…

A. The director shall prepare a report on state personnel and the operation of the state personnel system. B. The report shall include: 1. Information concerning all state employees, including employees of all executive, legislative and judicial branch agencies. All state agencie…

A. Except for expressing an opinion or pursuant to section 16-402, an employee shall not engage in any activities permitted by this section while on duty, while in uniform or at public expense. B. An employee shall not: 1. Use any political endorsement in connection with any appo…

A. A person shall not make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating or report with regard to any test, certification or appointment made under this article or in any manner commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of this article or rules adopted under this artic…

An agency director may require an agency employee to work reduced hours in order to comply with any reduction in appropriations. The director shall prescribe procedures to implement these reductions.

The director shall adopt rules and procedures that are applicable only to employees in covered service. The rules and procedures shall provide for: 1. The continuation of a probationary period for probationary employees. 2. A minimum period of original probationary service follow…

A. The director shall establish reduction in force procedures to be used by all state agencies if reductions are required in covered service by reason of lack of monies or work, abolition of a position, a material change in duty or organization or the introduction of other cost r…

A. Each of the following constitutes cause for discipline or dismissal of an employee in covered service: 1. Fraud or misrepresentation in securing appointment. 2. Incompetency. 3. Inefficiency. 4. Neglect of duty. 5. Insubordination. 6. Dishonesty. 7. Being impaired by alcohol o…

A. The state personnel board consists of five members appointed by the governor pursuant to section 38-211. No more than three members shall belong to the same political party. Persons eligible for appointment shall have had a continuous recorded registration pursuant to title 16…

A. Except as provided by section 41-1830.16, the state personnel board shall hear and review appeals as provided in this article relating to dismissal of a covered employee from covered service, suspension for more than eighty working hours or involuntary demotion resulting from …

A. Except as provided by section 41-1830.16, a covered employee who has completed the covered employee's original probationary period of service as provided by the personnel rules may appeal to the state personnel board the covered employee's dismissal from covered service, suspe…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Building renewal" means major activities that involve the repair or reworking of a building and the supporting infrastructure that will result in maintaining a building's expected useful life. Building renewal does not i…

A. The following are exempt from the provisions of this article relating to capital improvement plans: 1. Land acquisition, capital projects or building renewal by any state agency if the total cost of the entire acquisition, project or building renewal will not exceed twenty-fiv…

A. The department is responsible for the direction and control of public buildings maintenance as prescribed in this article. B. The department is responsible for the allocation of space, operation, alteration, renovation and security of the following buildings: 1. The state capi…

A. The department has the following facilities planning and construction powers and duties: 1. Review all architectural, engineering and construction contracts before submission to the department of law. 2. Approve plans and specifications and changes thereof for all capital proj…

A. The director may acquire, in the name of this state, by gift, grant, purchase, lease purchase, condemnation or any other lawful manner, real property, buildings, energy systems or energy management systems that are necessary, useful or convenient for the use of this state, but…

A. On the filing of a notice by an eligible city with the director pursuant to section 9-624 requesting this state to lease purchase part of an eligible municipal convention center project, the director may complete lease purchase financing of the part of the eligible project des…

A. A lease cost review board is established. Board membership consists of the director or the director's designee and four members appointed by the director, as follows: 1. Three directors of other state agencies. 2. A staff member of the joint legislative budget committee. B. Th…

A. The capital outlay stabilization fund is established which shall consist of monies paid into it in accordance with subsections D and F of this section and legislative appropriations to the account. All monies in the fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relatin…

A. The capitol mall consolidation fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature. The department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsi…

A. The department of administration, the Arizona board of regents and the department of transportation shall each be considered as a separate building system. Subject to approval by the joint committee on capital review, the director of the department of administration shall esta…

A. The joint committee on capital review shall develop and approve a uniform formula for computing annual funding needs of building systems for building renewal. In developing a formula, the committee shall take into consideration at least the following factors: 1. The current re…

A. To ensure that proper consideration is given to economically effective options for extending the life of an existing building, the agency responsible for each building system that is established pursuant to section 41-793, subsection A may support each request for funding of t…

[Repealed or reserved.]

A. The department of administration may adopt and administratively enforce rules for the control of vehicles on state property with respect only to the following: 1. Maximum speed of vehicles. 2. Direction of travel. 3. Place, method and time of parking. 4. Nonparking areas. 5. D…

The director by rule shall require adjusted work hours for at least eighty-five per cent of state employees with offices located in area A or area B as defined in section 49-541 each year beginning October 1 and ending April 1 in order to reduce the level of carbon monoxide conce…

A. The department of corrections building renewal fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 31-230, section 41-1604, subsection B, paragraph 3, sections 41-1604.02, 41-1604.03 and 41-1624 and section 41-1641, subsection E. The director of the state de…

A. Subject to the agreement of the director of the department of administration, the head of a state department or agency that employs peace officers who are certified by the Arizona peace officer standards and training board established by section 41-1821 may allow those peace o…

A. If the cost of renewable energy is not more than five per cent higher than the cost of traditional power, the department of administration shall meet the following minimum requirements for use of renewable energy to provide power to the department's facilities in the governmen…

The governor shall have charge and control of the Arizona pioneers' home, the state hospital for miners with disabilities, the state prison and prison farm and other state institutions the management of which is not otherwise provided by law.

A. Compensation for officers and employees of state institutions under the control of the governor shall be fixed by the governor pursuant to section 38-611 unless otherwise provided by law. Employee compensation shall be included in the estimate of expenses submitted by the chie…

Subject to chapter 4, article 4 of this title, the chief executive officer of each institution under the control of the governor shall appoint assistants, clerks, guards and employees required to operate the institution, the number to be determined by the governor, except as othe…

A. The governor shall, without notice, visit each institution under his control at least once every four months, and inspect every part of the institution and all places, buildings and grounds belonging thereto or used in connection therewith. B. The governor shall have general c…

A. When an institution maintained wholly by the state sells agricultural products, goods, wares or merchandise produced, manufactured or prepared by its inmates or wards to another institution for use therein or by the inmates or wards therein, the institution making the sale sha…

A. The governor shall cooperate with the United States commissioner general of immigration and with boards or officials of foreign countries for the purpose of arranging and providing for the return to the foreign countries of alien public charges confined in the state hospital o…

A home for aged and infirm Arizona pioneers is established and shall be known as the "Arizona pioneers' home". For the purposes prescribed in section 25 of the enabling act, the pioneers' home shall be designated as the state hospital for miners with disabilities. The home shall …

A. The governor shall appoint a superintendent of the Arizona pioneers' home. B. The superintendent shall receive compensation as determined pursuant to section 38-611.

A. A person of good character is eligible to be admitted to the Arizona pioneers' home who: 1. Is and has been for a period of five years prior to his application for admission a citizen or legal resident of the United States. 2. Has been a resident of this state for not less tha…

A. The superintendent of the home shall, subject to the directions of the governor, be charged with the care, custody and management of the home. B. The superintendent shall admit persons to the home and shall see that persons admitted to the home are comfortably cared for, fed a…

The superintendent is the only employee of the Arizona pioneers' home authorized to accept from residents of the home private funds of such residents for safekeeping, to be held in trust for such residents. Such funds shall be disbursed by the superintendent only upon instruction…

A. The Arizona pioneers' home fund is established consisting of monies, grants, gifts and contributions donated to the Arizona pioneers' home and proceeds deposited pursuant to section 41-927. The fund shall be divided into a special donations account and a cemetery proceeds acco…

A. The superintendent of the home shall manage the state sovereign land described as follows: Yavapai county parcel number 115-09-98A; section 29, township 14 north, range 2 west of the Gila and Salt River base and meridian, Yavapai county, Arizona. B. The superintendent of the h…