§22-50-41. Personnel policies - Inclusion or continuation of positions under Merit System.

Personnel policies may be established so as to include under the State Merit System certain positions in the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and so as to exclude other positions; however, employees of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and positions in such department which were under a merit system on September 30, 1965, or which are placed under a merit system by law after October 29, 1965, shall continue under such merit system unless any such position is abolished by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

(Acts 1965, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 9, p. 214, §2.)