Office of the Lieutenant Governor: Staff

Office of the Lieutenant Governor: Staff. The Lieutenant Governor may employ staff as required to assist in performing his duties, subject to budgetary appropriations. Such positions shall be exempt from the civil service. Source: PL 1-8, tit. 1, ch. 2, § 3, modified; repealed and reenacted by PL 13-1, § 4(c). Commission Comment: PL 13-1 took effect February 13, 2002. Contained in PL 13-1 were the following findings and purpose, repealer, reenactment, transfer, and severability clauses: Section 1. Findings and Purpose. The Legislature finds that staff positions under the Office of the Governor, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Office of the Resident Representative to the United States, and the Municipal Councils for each Senatorial District rightfully should be exempt from the civil service. For obvious policy reasons, each administration should be allowed the discretion and flexibility to determine its own staffing requirements to more efficiently and effectively meet its goals and objectives. Along with this, the term “executive position” should be defined to clarify the positions that are intended to be exempt from civil service under 1 CMC 8131 (a)(6). The Legislature finds that the Office of Personnel Management should be returned to the control of the Office of the Governor for purposes of administrative efficiency. Section 2. Repealer. Pl 12-54 is hereby repealed in it entirely. Section 3. Re-enactment. Executive Order 94-3, Section 214 is hereby reinstated in its entirety. ... Section 5. Transition. Any Commonwealth government employee who loses civil service status as a result of this Act shall, for a period of three years, have reemployment rights for any civil service position for which he or she is qualified, and shall be entitled to transfer into such employment pursuant to applicable rules, regulations and procedure. Section 6. Severability. If any provision of this Act or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance should be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Act or the application of its provisions to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.