The Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs is authorized to employ a manager and an assistant manager for the Muskogee Claims Office and for the Tulsa Claims Office whose positions shall be unclassified and exempt from the rules and procedures of the Merit System of Personnel Administration, except leave regulations. Personnel employed in these classifications at the time of the passage and approval of this act may elect to remain in the classified service and be subject to the merit system rules and regulations.
Laws 1980, c. 219, § 7, emerg. eff. May 30, 1980; Laws 1981, c. 169, § 7, emerg. eff. May 13, 1981.