PRINTER'S NO. 654
No. 603 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY FREIND, E. Z. TAYLOR, POLITE, ZWIKL, E. H. SMITH,
BROWN, LETTERMAN, REED AND PERZEL, MARCH 7, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 7, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 5, 1941 (P.L.752, No.286), entitled
2 "An act regulating and improving the civil service of certain
3 departments and agencies of the Commonwealth; vesting in the
4 State Civil Service Commission and a Personnel Director
5 certain powers and duties; providing for classification of
6 positions, adoption of compensation schedules and
7 certification of payrolls; imposing duties upon certain
8 officers and employes of the Commonwealth; authorizing
9 service to other State departments or agencies and political
10 subdivisions of the Commonwealth in matters relating to civil
11 service; defining certain crimes and misdemeanors; imposing
12 penalties; making certain appropriations, and repealing
13 certain acts and parts thereof," further providing for the
14 inclusion into the classified service of certain positions
15 and requiring tests for certain employes within the State
16 Transportation Commission.
17 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
18 hereby enacts as follows:
19 Section 1. Subclause (14) of clause (d) of section 3, act of
20 August 5, 1941 (P.L.752, No.286), known as the "Civil Service
21 Act," added August 27, 1963 (P.L.1257, No.520), is amended to
22 read:
23 Section 3. Definition of Terms.--In this act, unless the
24 context otherwise clearly requires,--
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1 (d) "Classified service" includes:
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3 (14) [The following positions in the Department of Highways:
4 Engineers, geologists, chemists, planning specialists,
5 statisticians, economists, geodesists, photogrammetrists,
6 architects, landscape architects, cartographers, draftsmen and
7 surveyors] All positions now existing or hereafter created in
8 the State Transportation Commission including positions included
9 in the "unclassified service" under clause (c) except the State
10 Transportation Commissioner; and
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12 Section 2. All personnel in the State Transportation
13 Commission on the effective date of this act who are not in the
14 "classified service," but who are included in the "classified
15 service" under the provisions of this amendatory act shall,
16 except as hereinafter provided, serve the maximum probationary
17 period authorized under section 603 of the Civil Service Act,
18 beginning on the effective date of this act. County maintenance
19 superintendents and assistant county maintenance superintendents
20 employed by the commission on the effective date of this act
21 shall be ineligible to hold a position in the "classified
22 service," until qualified under the provisions of the Civil
23 Service Act, but shall be eligible for provisional appointment
24 under section 604.
25 Section 3. This act shall take effect on the same day the
26 act of (P.L. , No. ), known as the
27 "State Transportation Commission Act," becomes effective.
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