Definitions

As used in the Personnel Act: A. "director" means the personnel director; B. "board" means the personnel board; C. "service" means the state personnel service created by the Personnel Act, and includes all positions covered by the Personnel Act; D. "position" means any state office, job, or position of employment; E. "employer" means any authority having power to fill positions, in an agency; F. "agency" means any state department, bureau, division, branch or administrative group which is under the same employer; G. "class" means a group of positions similar enough in powers and responsibilities that they can be covered by the same qualifications and rate of pay; H. "test" means a test of the qualifications, fitness and ability, and includes tests that are written, oral, physical or in the form of a demonstration of skill or any combination thereof; I. "employee" means a person in a position in the service who has completed his probationary period; and J. "probationer" means a person in a position in the service who is still in the probationary period for that position. History: 1953 Comp., § 5-4-30, enacted by Laws 1961, ch. 240, § 3.