KRS 90.150: Offices, positions, and places of employment included in classified service.

(1) The classified service covered by KRS 90.110 to 90.230, and hereby placed under

the jurisdiction of the board, includes all offices, positions, and places of

employment, except as herein provided, in the following departments and agencies

in the service of the city, to wit: the department of public safety, the department of

public health, the department of public welfare, and the civil service board. If any of

such offices, positions or places of employment are transferred to or combined or

consolidated with any other department or agency of or serving the city, the offices,

positions or places of employment shall continue to be covered by KRS 90.110 to

90.230. The classified service also includes all other offices and positions and

places of employment in other departments or agencies of the city or serving the city

to which the classified service may be hereafter extended pursuant to the provisions

of KRS 90.210, or any other law.

(2) The following offices, positions, and places of employment, in the d epartments and

agencies hereinabove specifically named, are excluded from the classified service,

to wit:

(a) The director of safety and the following positions in that department, to wit:

the director of safety's staff, including, but not limited to assis tants and his

private secretary, the chief of police and his private secretary, assistant chief

of police, chief of detectives, chaplain for the police department, chief of

firefighters and his private secretary, assistant chief of firefighters, chaplain

for the fire department; superintendent and animal catchers, and caretakers, in

the division of city pound; supervising inspector of weights and measures, and

inspector of weights and measures, and deputy inspector, in the division of

weights and measures.

(b) The director of health and the following positions in that department, to wit:

private secretary, kitchen helpers, cleaners, waitresses, housemaids,

janitresses, laundresses, hospital resident medical staff, university visiting

staff, student nurses, bona fide university students.

(c) The director of welfare and the following positions in that department, to wit:

private secretary, janitors, cleaners, laundresses, night watchman, truck

drivers, kitchen helpers, janitresses, park laborers, bona fide univ ersity

students.

(d) Members of the civil service board and the personnel director.

(3) The offices, positions, and places of employment excluded by paragraphs (a), (b),

(c) and (d) of subsection (2) from the classified service may be placed in the

classified service, in accordance with the provisions of KRS 90.210, except that the

offices or positions of director of safety including his staff, chief of police and his

private secretary, assistant chief of police, chief of detectives, chaplain for the

police department, chief of firefighters and his private secretary, assistant chief of

firefighters, chaplain for the fire department, director of health, director of welfare,

and members of the civil service board shall not be placed in the classified service.

(4) Any classified employee in the department of safety, who accepts an appointment

and qualifies as chief of police or his private secretary, assistant chief of police,

chief of detectives, chaplain for the police department, chief of firefighters or his

private secretary, assistant chief of firefighters, or chaplain for the fire department,

shall be deemed to have received a leave of absence from the classified service for

and during the incumbency of any of those respective positions. If an individual

should cease to serve in any of those positions, there shall be restored to him the

same classification and rank which he held prior to his appointment.