CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.House Bill 0783
Florida House of Representatives - 1997 HB 783
By Representatives Fuller, Dennis, Thrasher, Hill, Crady,
King and Arnall
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the City of Jacksonville,
3 Duval County; amending chapter 92-341, Laws of
4 Florida, as amended; amending the Charter of
5 the City of Jacksonville; clarifying the
6 exemptions provided by the charter to
7 designated employees; providing an effective
8 date.
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10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12 Section 1. Subsections (k), (l), (t), (u), and (aa) of
13 section 17.06 of Article 17 of chapter 92-341, Laws of
14 Florida, as amended, are amended, and subsection (gg) is added
15 to said section, to read:
16 ARTICLE 17. CIVIL SERVICE
17 Section 17.06. Applicability of civil service system
18 to employees of consolidated government.--The civil service
19 provisions of this charter shall be applicable to all
20 employees of the consolidated government except:
21 (k) Assistant council auditor, council secretary,
22 council assistant secretaries, the secretary to the president
23 of the council, the council director of staff services, chief
24 of research, senior research associate, the council research
25 assistants, and the chief of council administration, and
26 executive council assistants appointed by council members,
27 upon approval of the City Council, council aids, provided that
28 any person holding the position fo council aid on July 1,
29 1996, and who previous to that date had civil service status,
30 shall retain protection from dismissal without cause as
31 provided in the civil service and personnel rules and
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1 regulations until July 1, 1999, at which time all council aids
2 shall be appointed and exempt from civil service.
3 (1) Assistant information computer technology
4 officers.
5 (t) The following persons employed within the judicial
6 branch of government:
7 (1) Mediators. Mediator.
8 (u) The following persons employed within the
9 department of administration and finance:
10 (1) Minority business coordinator.
11 (2) Information technology analysts provided that a
12 person holding such position at the time of exemption from
13 civil service may elect to retain civil service status for the
14 duration of continuous employment in the position. Assistant
15 communications officer.
16 (3) Quality standards specialist.
17 (4) Internal auditors.
18 (5) Industrial psychologist and managers of personnel
19 services employed in the personnel division.
20 (6) Managers of accounting services.
21 (aa) The following persons employed by the office of
22 the sheriff:
23 (7) Chaplains, except that any person serving as a
24 chaplain on January 1, 1997, may remain in the classified
25 civil service.
26 (gg) The following positions exempted by previous
27 legislation:
28 (1) The executive director, heads of activities, and
29 professional employees of the Downtown Development Authority
30 appointed under section 20.
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