Statute 49-402e: Officers and employees transferred; civil service status;
benefits and rights retained.
(a) On the effective date of this act, all officers and
employees who were engaged immediately prior to the effective date of this
act in the performance of powers, duties and functions which are
transferred pursuant to the provisions of this act, and who in the opinion
of the secretary of the Kansas department of health and environment are
necessary to perform such powers, duties and functions, shall be
transferred to and shall become officers and employees of the Kansas
department of health and environment. All officers and employees so
transferred shall be in the classified service under the Kansas civil
service act. Any such officer or employee shall retain all retirement
benefits and all rights of civil service which had accrued to or vested in
such officer or employee prior to the effective date of this act. The
service of each such officer or employee so transferred shall be deemed to
have been continuous.
History: L. 1988, ch. 192, § 5; July 1.