Title 67 — STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE AFFAIRS

67-5309C. Annual surveys, reports, and recommendations. (1) The administrator of the division of human resources shall conduct or approve annual salary and benefit surveys within relevant labor markets to determine salary ranges and benefit packages that represent competitive lab…

67-5309D. Other pay delivery options. (1) In addition to pay increases authorized in section 67-5309B, Idaho Code, the department director may grant a classified employee bonus pay not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) in any given fiscal year based on exemplary performance…

67-5310. Service to other political subdivisions. Subject to the approval of the administrator, agreements may be entered into with any political subdivision of the state of Idaho to furnish services and facilities of the division and staff to such political subdivisions in the a…

67-5311. Limitation of political activity. (1) No employee of a state department covered by this act shall: (a) Use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election to or a nomination for office, or affecting the result thereof; (b) Directly or …

67-5312. Violations. Any person willfully violating any of the provisions of this act or of the rules or regulations established thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

67-5313. Veterans’ preference. Veterans’ preference as provided in title 65, chapter 5, Idaho Code, shall be observed except that entrance probationary periods are governed exclusively by the provisions of this chapter.

67-5314. Method of financing. (1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the division of human resources fund. All participating departments are hereby authorized and directed to pay out of their funds to the state treasurer their respective shares of the authorized budget…

67-5315. Establishment and adoption of employee problem solving and due process procedures. (1) Each participating department shall, on or before July 1, 1999, establish and adopt an employee problem solving procedure within such department, which shall be reduced to writing and …

67-5316. Appeal procedure. (1) Appeals shall be limited to the following: (a) Any classified employee who has successfully completed the entrance probationary period may, after completing the departmental due process procedure, appeal a disciplinary dismissal, demotion or suspens…

67-5317. classified employee Petition for review procedure. (1) If a classified employee files a petition for review, the personnel commission shall review the record of the proceeding before the hearing officer, briefs submitted in accordance with any briefing schedule it orders…

67-5318. Appeal to district court. Upon the appeal of a decision of the commission, the district court may affirm, or set aside and remand the matter to the commission upon the following grounds, and shall not set the same aside on any other grounds: (1) That the findings of fact…

67-5328. Hours of work and overtime. (1) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the legislature of the state of Idaho that all state employees shall be treated substantially similar with reference to hours of employment. The policy of this state as declared in this act shall n…

67-5332. Credited state service — Applicability — Computation. (1) For the purposes of payroll, vacation or annual leave, sick leave and other applicable purposes, credited state service shall be earned by: (a) Eligible classified and nonclassified officers and employees of any d…

67-5333. Sick leave. (1) Sick leave shall be computed as follows: (a) The rate per hour at which sick leave shall accrue to eligible classified and nonclassified officers and employees earning credited state service shall be at the rate represented by the proportion 96/2080. Sick…

67-5333A. sick leave transferred — PUBLIC EDUCATION ENTITY AND STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY. Any employee who becomes an eligible employee of a state educational agency immediately following termination of employment with a public education entity shall be credited by the state of Id…

67-5334. Vacation time. (1) Vacation time shall be computed as follows: (a) Vacation time shall not accrue to any officer or employee on any kind of leave of absence without pay, suspension without pay or layoff. Vacation leave shall accrue while an officer or employee is on appr…

67-5337. Moving expense reimbursement. In order for the state to attract and retain professional staff, it may be necessary to defray normal intrastate and interstate moving expenses. The head of any department, office or institution of the state shall have the authority to decid…

67-5338. Red cross disaster services. An employee of the state of Idaho, who is a certified disaster service volunteer, shall be granted paid leave for an aggregate of up to one hundred twenty (120) work hours, consecutively or nonconnectively, in any twelve (12) month period to …

67-5339. loan repayment program. (1) There is hereby created an educational loan repayment program for eligible physicians, psychologists, and mid-level practitioners at state hospital north, state hospital south, and state hospital west. (2) For purposes of this section, the fol…

67-5340. Leave of absence with pay in lieu of worker’s compensation benefits. (1) Whenever any employee of the state of Idaho who is categorized as a police officer for retirement purposes pursuant to section 59-1303, Idaho Code, is physically disabled by a serious injury arising…

67-5342. Severance pay for state employees. Upon termination from state service, no classified, nonclassified, or exempt employee shall be eligible for severance pay and no employer shall provide or pay severance pay to such an employee or former employee. As used in this section…

67-5342A. severance pay — purchase of membership service prohibited. The provisions of this section shall apply to classified, nonclassified, and exempt state employees of the legislative and executive branches of government. For purposes of this chapter, the term "severance pay"…

67-5343. Leave of absence for bone marrow or organ donation. (1) A full-time employee shall be granted a leave of absence for the time specified for the following purposes: (a) Five (5) workdays to serve as a bone marrow donor if the employee provides the appointing authority wri…

67-5401. Purposes. The purposes of this act are: (1) To relieve blind persons from the distress of poverty; (2) To encourage and assist blind persons in their efforts to become socially and economically independent and to render themselves more self-supporting; and (3) To enlarge…

67-5402. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commission" means the Idaho commission for the blind and visually impaired. (2) "Blind" or "visually impaired" means a person whose visual acuity with correcting lenses is not better than 20/20…

67-5403. Commission for the blind and visually impaired — Creation — Composition — Appointment — Transfer of powers from department of public assistance. (1) There is hereby created in the office of the governor the Idaho commission for the blind and visually impaired. The commis…

67-5404. Compensation. Members of the commission shall be compensated as provided by section 59-509(h), Idaho Code or as provided by section 59-509(n), Idaho Code, pursuant to a one (1) time irrevocable election made in writing by the member.

67-5405. Organization of commission — Employment of administrator. The commission shall elect a chairman and a vice chairman. The commission shall function as the policy setting entity of the commission programs and shall employ and fix the compensation of a full-time administrat…

67-5406. Meetings — Quorum. The commission shall meet at least once every quarter regularly and at such times as called by the chairman. A majority of the commission members shall constitute a quorum for all business.

67-5407. Duties. The commission shall: (a) Assist blind persons in achieving physical and psychological orientation, inform blind persons of available services, stimulate and assist the blind in achieving social and economic independence, and do all things which will ameliorate t…

67-5408. Commission as agency to administer rehabilitation in federal programs. The commission is hereby designated as the sole agency responsible for the vocational and other rehabilitation of the blind and shall administer the program of vocational rehabilitation for the blind …

67-5409. Qualifications for the administrator and other employees. The administrator of the commission shall be experienced in work for the blind and preference shall be given to equally qualified blind persons in filling the position of administrator of the commission. The admin…

67-5410. Limitation on disclosure by commission concerning persons applying for services to the blind. Information with respect to any individual applying for or receiving services to the blind shall not be disclosed by the commission or any of its employees to any person, associ…

67-5411. Commission as sole licensing agency under the provisions of the Randolph-Sheppard vending stand act. The commission is hereby designated as the sole licensing agency under the provisions of the Randolph-Sheppard vending stand act (P.L. 732, 74th Congress, 49 stat. 1559, …

67-5412. Administrator to prepare a state plan for vocational rehabilitation of the blind. The administrator of the commission shall prepare a state plan for vocational rehabilitation of the blind and after approved by the commission shall submit the same to the United States dep…

67-5413. Acceptance of federal acts. The state of Idaho and the commission for the blind and visually impaired hereby affirm their acceptance of the provisions and benefits of the act of Congress entitled, "The Randolph-Sheppard Act," P.L. 93-516, 93rd Congress, and "The Rehabili…

67-5414. Reports of medical authorities establishing blindness. Any Idaho physician, optometrist, or other person who diagnoses a person as blind, as defined in section 67-5402(2), Idaho Code, shall, if the person consents, report within thirty (30) days the result of the examina…

67-5415. Statistical register of blind — Maintenance by administrator. The administrator of the commission shall maintain a statistical register of the blind in the state which shall describe therein the condition, cause of blindness and capacity to benefit from agency services. …

67-5501. Short title. This act may be cited as the "Post-Attack Resource Management Act."

67-5502. Purpose of act — Possibility of attack — Need for emergency powers — Coordination with comparable functions of federal government. (a) The legislature recognizes that an attack upon the United States is a possibility; that such attack might be of unprecedented size and d…

67-5503. Definitions. (a) "Emergency resources management plan" shall mean that plan prepared by the Idaho emergency resources planning committee, approved by the federal office of emergency planning and adopted by the governor, which sets forth the organization, administration, …

67-5504. State emergency resource planning committee — Members — State emergency planning director. (a) The governor may establish a state emergency resource planning committee (hereinafter referred to as the "state committee") and the office of state emergency planning director …

67-5505. Authority of governor — Cooperation with federal government, other states, private agencies — Rules and regulations. (a) The governor shall have general direction and control of the emergency resources management within this state and all officers, boards, agencies, indi…

67-5506. Order of post-attack recovery and rehabilitation emergency by governor — Convening of legislature — Emergency declared by president — Termination of emergency by legislature, president or congress — Automatic termination. (a) Following an attack, the governor, if he find…

67-5507. Review of orders and acts by Supreme Court. Every order and the facts related therein issued under this act shall be subject to judicial inquiry by the state supreme court as to the existence of the facts underlying the issuance of the order and whether such action was r…

67-5508. Penalties. Any person violating any of the rules, regulations or orders adopted and promulgated under section 67-5506 shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or to a term of imprisonment of not to exceed six (6) months, or both such fine…

67-5601. Declaration of policy. It is hereby found that there is an increasing appreciation and interest in the practice and enjoyment of the arts, that our citizens are becoming aware, due to increasing leisure time, of a broader and richer life through artistic endeavors, that …

67-5602. Commission on the arts — Creation — Membership. There is hereby created and established within the office of the governor a state commission, to be known as the Idaho commission on the arts, to consist of thirteen (13) members, representative of the public, Idaho’s ethni…

67-5603. Terms of members — Appointment of officers — Service of members — Compensation. The term of office of each member shall be four (4) years; provided that all members’ terms shall be extended to June 30 of the year their terms expire. When a member’s term expires, the gove…

67-5604. Employees. The commission shall employ, and at pleasure remove an executive director. The executive director shall be the chief executive officer of the commission. The director may, subject to the approval of the commission, employ and remove any consultants, experts or…