RS 330.5 - Employees
A. An authority may employ such employees as it deems necessary for its proper functioning. All employees of the authority and each levee district within the territorial jurisdiction of the authority shall be considered civil service employees for the purpose of Article X of the Constitution of Louisiana. Each employee of a levee district within the territorial jurisdiction of the authority who is in the unclassified civil service on December 31, 2006 shall remain in the unclassified civil service as long as the employee remains in the same position.
B. Any person employed by the East Jefferson Levee District, the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, the Orleans Levee District, or the West Jefferson Levee District on January 1, 2007, may, insofar as practicable, continue as an employee of the levee district at the pleasure of the flood protection authority created in this Part and may, insofar as practicable, retain all rights, privileges, and benefits.
Acts 2006, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.