PART II. CIVIL SERVICE FOR THE STATE

§76-11 Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) "Commission" means the civil service commission of the State;

(2) "Director" means the director of human resources development of the State;

(3) "State service" means all offices and other positions in the public service of the State;

(4) "Department" includes the judicial branch and any department, board, commission, or agency of the State;

(5) "Appointing authority" means a department or person having power to make appointments or changes in status of employees in the state service and includes such subordinate, or, under rule of the department of human resources development, subordinates, as the department or person may designate to act for it or the person. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any department or person may make such a designation;

(6) "Civil service" includes all positions in the state service not exempted by section 76-16;

(7) "Class" or "class of work" means the logical and reasonable grouping of duties and responsibilities and their identification with respect to

(A) Kind or subject matter of work,

(B) Level of difficulty and responsibility, and

(C) Qualification requirements of the work, so that positions which conform substantially to the same class would receive like treatment in the matter of title, and such personnel processes as salary assignment;

(8) "Promotional examination" means an examination for positions in a particular class, admission to which is limited to regular employees in civil service;

(9) "Open-competitive examination" means an examination for positions in a particular class, admission to which is not limited to persons employed in civil service;

(10) "Open-competitive list" means a list of persons who have been found qualified by an open-competitive examination for appointment to a position in a particular class;

(11) "Promotional list" means a list of persons who have been found qualified by a promotional examination for appointment to a position in a particular class;

(12) "Reemployment list" means a list of persons who have been regular employees in the civil service and who are entitled to have their names certified for appointment to a position in the class in which they last held permanent status, or, as provided by section 76-25, in a related class in the same or lower range for which they meet the qualification requirements;

(13) "Eligible list" means a list of persons who have been found qualified for appointment to a position in a particular class, such a list being either open-competitive, promotional, or reemployment;

(14) "Eligible" means a person whose name is on an active eligible list;

(15) "Regular employee" means an employee who has been appointed to a position in the civil service in accordance with this chapter and who has successfully completed the employee's initial probation period;

(16) "Initial probation period" means a period of not less than six months nor more than one year from the beginning of an employee's service in civil service;

(17) "New probation period" means any probation period other than that defined in paragraph (16);

(18) "Position" means a specific office or employment, whether occupied or vacant, consisting of a group of all the current duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by competent authority, requiring the full or part-time employment of one person;

(19) "Employee" means a person holding a position in accordance with this chapter whether permanently or otherwise and whether as an officer or otherwise;

(20) "Position classification plan" means classes of positions arranged in a logical and systematic order. [L 1955, c 274, pt of §1; RL 1955, §3-11; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §11; am L 1965, c 54, §1; HRS §76-11; am L 1974, c 159, §10; gen ch 1985; am L 1994, c 56, §21]