(a) The Government Service includes the career service and the positions exempted from the career service.
(b) The exempt positions are those of—
(1) department heads, Assistant Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners and members of boards, commissions or other bodies appointed by the Governor;
(2) members and the staff of the Legislature, officers elected by popular vote, and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices;
(3) Judges of the Municipal Courts and employees of the Judicial Branch;
(4) patients and inmates employed in government institutions;
(5) Casual labor hired on an hourly basis for not more than 40 hours in any one quarter and as specifically authorized by law; part-time labor for less than 20 hours per week for not more than six-months; trainees for not more than one six-month period; and persons employed for less than six months in professional, scientific or other similar capacity on temporary projects, inquiries, investigations or examinations;
(6) employees located outside the Virgin Islands;
(7) employees of the—
(i) University of the Virgin Islands;
(ii) Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority; and
(iii) Virgin Islands Port Authority; and
(8) an officer or employee in a position of a policy-determining nature when the position is so designated by the Governor and submitted to the Legislature; and an employee who is a special assistant, or who is on special assignment to, or whose position requires a confidential relationship with a policy-making official when the position is so designated by the Governor and submitted to the Legislature.
(c) All positions in the Executive Branch of the United States Virgin Islands Government not exempted under subsection (b) of this section shall be in the career service.
(d) The terms “career service” and “exempt service” are intended to be synonymous with the terms “classified service” and “unclassified service”, respectively, as heretofore used in this Code.