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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. “Appointing authority” means a commissioner, department, officer or agency having power to make appointments to, and separations from, positions in state service;
  2. “Board of appeals” refers to the state employees' appeals board established by § 8-30-108 of this chapter;
  3. “Class” or “class of positions” means a group of positions in state service determined by the commissioner to have sufficiently similar duties, authority, and responsibility such that:
    1. The same qualifications may be reasonably required for; and
    2. The same schedule of pay may be equitably applied to;

      all positions in the group;

  4. “Commissioner” refers to the commissioner of human resources appointed under § 8-30-104;
  5. “Department” refers to the department of human resources pursuant to § 8-30-104. The term includes the commissioner;
  6. “Eligible” means an applicant meeting minimum qualifications whose name is on a list;
  7. “Executive service” means all other positions that have not been placed under the preferred service and as are described in § 8-30-202;
  8. “List” means a list of eligibles, including, but not limited to, a promotion list;
  9. “List of eligibles” means a list of applicants who meet the minimum qualifications for appointment to a position as determined by the department;
  10. “Official station” means the town or city where the employee performs a majority of the employee's duties;
  11. “Preferred service” means all offices and positions of employment in the state service that have been placed under the preferred service provisions of this chapter;
  12. “State agency” means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality in state service that is subject to this chapter; and
  13. “State service” shall have the same meaning assigned in § 8-30-102(a).


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