Title 36, Title 36 Officers and Employees

No class of positions shall be assigned to the noncompetitive branch unless the assignment has been recommended by the personnel administrator, the director has held a public hearing thereon, has recommended the assignment to the governor, and the governor has approved the assign…

Except as provided in § 36-4-50.1, the determinations of eligibility for appointments, promotions, and demotions in and dismissals from the classified service shall be based solely upon merit, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, country of origin, or ancest…

The personnel administrator in consultation with the equal employment opportunity administrator within the department of administration shall identify classes of positions within state government in which there exists a need for a particular linguistic background or skill. Servic…

(a) No member of the personnel appeal board shall seek the nomination of or be a candidate for any elective state office. (b) A classified employee, whose position is not fully funded through federal loans and/or grants, may seek the nomination of or be a candidate for elective s…

No classified employee shall during working hours engage to any extent in any form of partisan politics except that he or she may attend and vote at any party caucus, primary, or election held during working hours. Outside of working hours a classified employee may attend any par…

No classified employee or member of the personnel appeal board shall solicit contributions for nor shall he or she be solicited to contribute to any political party or campaign. Every officer, agent, clerk, or employee under the government of the state who may have charge or cont…

No person who is a candidate for nomination or for election for any elective office shall seek to influence the vote of any person by promising to use political influence in obtaining for that person an appointment or promotion in the classified service.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or chapter 3 of this title, or of the rules established in accordance with these chapters, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or b…

The provisions of this chapter, chapter 3 of this title, or of the personnel rules shall not apply in each instance where it is contrary to merit standards established by the federal government or any agency of the state where compliance with the merit standards is a condition pr…

The provisions of this chapter and chapter 3 of this title shall be severable, and if any of the provisions shall be held to be invalid, the decision of the court respecting the provision or provisions shall not affect the validity of any other provisions which can be given effec…

(a)(1) Every person who shall have twenty (20) years, not necessarily consecutive, of service credit, the credits having been earned in either the classified, nonclassified, or unclassified service of the state or a combination of both, shall be deemed to have acquired full statu…

Appointments to positions in the noncompetitive branch shall be designated as “noncompetitive appointments”, and shall be made upon recommendation of the appointing authority and approval of the personnel administrator subject to established requirements for character and physica…

Whenever under the provisions of this chapter any action is permitted or required to be done by an appointing authority, the appointing authority may delegate the responsibility for the performance of that action to such subordinate officers or employees as he or she may see fit;…

(a) The personnel administrator is authorized and empowered to prepare without examination special lists of eligible persons who have a severe physical and/or mental impairment and who are certified by the department of human services as being so impaired, capable, and adequately…

There is hereby established a pay incentive program for all state employees except department heads, administrators, or any supervisors considered by the personnel administrator to be at the management level. Any state employee who submits recommendations or proposals to eliminat…

(a) For each discharge with pay of three (3) consecutive days of sick leave, an employee’s appointing authority shall require a physician’s certificate or other evidence satisfactory to the appointing authority. Sick leave is hereby defined to mean a necessary absence or absences…

(a) Whenever an employee shall be absent from his or her duties and is awaiting workers’ compensation benefits, he or she shall be granted sick leave in an amount not to exceed his or her regular compensation. (b) Whenever an employee shall be absent from his or her duties and is…

Any person employed by the department of elementary and secondary education below pay grade 19 in other than faculty positions, on or before February 1, 1974, in the classified, unclassified, or nonclassified service, or who was a member of the body as constituted by § 22-1-1 or …

Persons appointed to positions in the noncompetitive branch shall serve a probationary period of six (6) months during which time the appointing authority shall report to the personnel administrator every sixty (60) days concerning the work of the employee and at the end of the p…

(a) The personnel administrator shall recommend such rules as he or she may consider necessary, appropriate, or desirable to carry out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3 of this title and may from time to time recommend amendments thereto. When the rules or amendments a…

The personnel administrator shall, after consultation with appointing authorities and principal supervising officials, classify all of the positions in the classified service according to the duties and responsibilities of each position. The plan of classification shall designate…