Confidential and policy-making positions exempt from chapter

Nothing in this chapter applies to department heads, to policy-forming officials, to the position of private secretary of any official or department, or to any person holding a strictly confidential relation to the appointing officer. Source: SL 1935, ch 188 , § 7; SDC 1939, § 41.0507; SL 1939, ch 159 , § 2; SL 1943, ch 147 , § 2; SL 1951, ch 214 , § 2; SDC Supp 1960, § 41.0508; SL 2010, ch 19 , § 13.