KRS 90.210: Extension of classified service to other offices and positions.

The board, without additional compensation, shall perform, under and pursuant to the

provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230, the same services and duties provided for herein, for

any department, board or agency of such city or any joint board or joint agency o f such

city and such county, in which said city is located, if and when by statute or by action of

the legislative governing body of the city, or the legislative governing bodies of the city

and county or by action of the governing body of any independent agency, where

appropriate, the personnel or part or parts thereof of such department, board or agency, or

joint board or joint agency, is placed under the merit system, and is thereby subjected to

the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230 covering such office s, positions or classes of

positions, or places of employment, in such agency, as the governing body of such agency

may designate. This section shall also apply to any department of state government, or

unit of a department, transferred as a result of a de cision or agreement made between the

Commonwealth of Kentucky and the city or city and county or independent agency in a

city, where appropriate, or a change in funding of a department or unit from state to local.

When the provisions hereof shall have been extended in the manner provided for in this

section then all of the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230 shall be applied to such

offices, positions, and places of employment, in such departments, boards, agencies, and

joint boards or joint agencies, the sa me as if originally included herein. The date of any

extension of the provisions of KRS 90.110 to 90.230 to include additional offices,

positions, or classes of positions, or places of employment, shall be considered as the

effective date of those sections with respect thereto, and employees then holding such

offices, positions, or places of employment, thereby made subject to the provisions of

KRS 90.110 to 90.230, shall be considered as having satisfied all of the qualifications for

obtaining original app ointment under those sections, and shall be considered as having

been given probationary appointments as defined in KRS 90.110, as of the date they are

thus placed in the classified service hereunder. However, the employees of any

department, unit, board o r agency to which the classified service is extended hereunder

shall retain their seniority relative to other employees in the department, unit, board or

agency for the purposes of KRS 90.110 to 90.230.