KRS 90.180: Appointments to positions in classified service -- Probationary

appointments.

(1) All appointments to positions subject to the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230

shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness, to be determined by

competitive ex aminations, except in the case of emergency appointments which

may be made only in accordance with the definition given in KRS 90.110; provided

that all original appointments, except emergency appointments as defined in KRS

90.110, shall be probationary appointments for a period of not less than six (6), nor

more than twelve (12), months, after which probationary period regular

appointments shall be given to all probationary employees who are deemed to be

satisfactory by the respective appointing authority.

(2) Except in the case of emergency appointments as defined in KRS 90.110, all

appointments to positions subject to the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230 shall

be made by appointing authorities only from an eligible list certified by the

personnel direct or as qualified and eligible for appointment from an appropriate

eligible list as defined in KRS 90.110; provided however, that all employees

holding positions subject to the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230 on the effective

date thereof who were holding positions in classified service under provision of

previous acts, shall be considered as having satisfied hereunder all of the

qualifications for obtaining and holding such appointments as they then had, and

further provided that all employees holding pos itions subject to the provisions of

KRS 90.110 to 90.230, on the effective date thereof, and who were not holding

positions in classified service under provisions of previous acts, shall be considered

as having satisfied hereunder all of the qualifications for obtaining and holding

original appointments under KRS 90.110 to 90.230, and shall be considered as

having been given probationary appointments, as defined in KRS 90.110, as of the

effective date thereof.