67A.2 00 Merit or civil service system -- Protection of employees' prior rights -- Exemption. (1) Whenever the comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to KRS Chapter 67A requires the implementation of a merit or civil service system for the employees of an urban - county government, such system shall be implemented by the urban -county government so as to guarantee the substantive and procedural rights possessed by any employee of a government in existence within the boundaries of the urban - county prior to the effecti ve date of merger. (2) During the time a merit or civil service system is being implemented, pursuant to the requirements of a comprehensive plan, all procedural and substantive rights possessed by any employee of a government in existence within the bound aries of the urban -county prior to the effective date of merger shall be protected. (3) Any urban -county government created after December 31, 1987, shall be exempt from the provisions of KRS 67A.210 to 67A.350. Effective: July 15, 1988 History: Amended 19 88 Ky. Acts ch. 379, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 199, sec. 1.
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