KRS 97.253: Employees are subject to civil service.

(1) The employees of any former board of park commissioners in any city of the first

class, except the special park police, shall be employed by and continued in the

service of the department of public parks and recreation. The employees, except as

herein prov ided, are subject to any law or amendments thereof, or any rules and

regulations issued pursuant thereto, governing any city board or commission

empowered to administer and enforce civil service laws, rules and regulations in

and for the city, it being the intent and purpose of KRS 97.250 to 97.257 to make

such laws, rules and regulations applicable to the offices, positions and places of

employment in the department of public parks and recreation.

(2) The following offices, positions, and places of employm ent in the department of

public parks and recreation, to wit: director of parks and recreation, private

secretary to the director, golf professionals, golf greensmen, checkers, countermen,

locker attendants, caretakers, janitors, janitresses, laundresses, cleaners, tractor and

truck drivers, teamsters and stablemen, and laborers, are hereby specifically

excepted from the provisions of the civil service law, rules and regulations. The

foregoing excepted offices, positions, and places of employment, except th e office

of director, may hereafter be placed in the classified service, under the law, by the

legislative body of the city by ordinance.