HB 0371 2003
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to the City of Jacksonville; amending
3    chapter 92-341, Laws of Florida, as amended; clarifying
4    exemptions provided in the Charter of the City of
5    Jacksonville to the civil service status of designated
6    positions; providing an effective date.
7         
8          WHEREAS, the City of Jacksonville has determined that it is
9    in its best interest to consolidate its housing programs within
10    a new housing commission, and
11          WHEREAS, the city has determined that it is in its best
12    interest to provide for appointed employees for the new
13    agencies, while ensuring that present employees retain the right
14    to revert to their civil service positions, and
15          WHEREAS, the city and the property appraiser wish to codify
16    the status of appointed employees in that office and to confirm
17    reversion rights for said employees, NOW, THEREFORE,
18         
19          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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21          Section 1. Subsections (gg) and (hh) are added to section
22    17.06 of the Charter of the City of Jacksonville, as created by
23    chapter 92-341, Laws of Florida, as amended, to read:
24 ARTICLE 17. CIVIL SERVICE
25          Section 17.06 Applicability of civil service system to
26    employees of consolidated government.--The civil service
27    provisions of this charter shall be applicable to all employees
28    of the consolidated government except:
29          (gg) All persons employed by the Housing and Community
30    Development Commission (HCDC) and the Housing and Community
31    Development Finance Commission (HCDFC), except those employees
32    of organizations who were transferred into the HCDC or the HCDFC
33    on July 1, 2003, as a result of the creation of the HCDC and the
34    HCDFC pursuant to Ordinance Code Chapter and who
35    elected to retain civil service status.
36          (hh) All persons employed in the Office of the Property
37    Appraiser, except those employees who elected to retain civil
38    service status prior to January 1, 2000.
39         
40          Any person in the classified civil service who is appointed to a
41    position exempted from the civil service system by this section
42    shall be entitled to return to the same or a comparable civil
43    service classification, with the same rights and status as held
44    immediately prior to such appointment. Compensation for an
45    employee returning to a civil service classification under this
46    provision will be based upon the rate that he or she would have
47    been receiving had the appointment not been made. This paragraph
48    shall not apply to employees exempted from civil service
49    provisions by subsections (a), (c), (e), (f), (i), or (q).
50          Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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