Sec. 2-56. Non-merit positions.

   The following positions in the Department of Transportation are non-merit positions:

   (a)   Deputy Director of Operations;

   (b)   Transportation Policy Officer; and

   (c)   General Manager, Transit Services. (1996 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2002 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1; 2007 L.M.C, ch. 5, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 2019 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 2023 L.M.C., ch. 28, § 1.)

   Editor’s note—2019 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 3, states: Transition - Certain Incumbents.

   (a) If, on the effective date of this Act, an employee who occupies a position that this Act converts to a non-merit position:

      (1) that employee retains all merit system rights; and

      (2) the position does not become a non-merit position until that employee leaves the position through transfer, promotion, demotion, retirement, or other separation from service.

   (b) An employee who, on the effective date of this Act, is in a probationary period for a position that this Act converts to a non-merit position:

      (1) that employee retains all merit system rights upon successful completion of the probationary period; and

      (2) the position does not become a non-merit position until that employee leaves the position through transfer, promotion, demotion, retirement, or other separation from service.

   2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.

   2007 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 2, states: Affect on incumbents. If on the effective date of this Act [May 28, 2007] a merit system employee occupies a position which this Act converts to a non-merit position:

   (a) that employee retains all merit system rights; and

   (b) the position does not become a non-merit position until that employee leaves the position through transfer, promotion, demotion, retirement, or other separation from service.