(a) The merit system for officers and employees of the county government established pursuant to the charter for Montgomery County, Maryland, 1948, is hereby continued. All officers and employees of the county government, except for those exempted positions specified in section 401 of the charter for Montgomery County, Maryland, 1968, as amended, shall be classified as merit system employees.
(b) The merit system shall be administered by the chief administrative officer, under the direction of the county executive, and shall be governed by and subject to the provisions of the charter for Montgomery County, Maryland, 1982, as amended, provisions of this chapter, and the personnel regulations adopted by the county executive under method (1) of section 2A-15 of this Code. (1971 L.M.C., ch. 36, § 1; 1979 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 5; 1982 L.M.C., ch. 40, § 5; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 39; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 23.)
Editor's note-Section 33-3 was cited in Mayer v. Montgomery County, 143 Md. App. 261, 794 A.2d 704 (2002).