3-3-6. Confidential and policy-making positions exempt from chapter.
Nothing in this chapter applies to department heads, to policy-forming officials, to the position of private secretary of any official or department, or to any person holding a strictly confidential relation to the appointing officer.
Source: SL 1935, ch 188, §7; SDC 1939, §41.0507; SL 1939, ch 159, §2; SL 1943, ch 147, §2; SL 1951, ch 214, §2; SDC Supp 1960, §41.0508; SL 2010, ch 19, §13.