25-4-15 - Executive director; employees. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 25-4-15. Executive director; employees.
 

(1)  The commission shall appoint an executive director to serve at the pleasure of the commission. The executive director shall possess a high degree of professional competence and integrity. The executive director shall be responsible for the administrative operations of the commission and shall perform other such duties within its powers as may be delegated or assigned from time to time by regulations or orders of the commission. The commission, by and through its executive director, may employ the personnel necessary to properly discharge the duties and responsibilities of the commission, subject to budgetary limitations. Such personnel shall possess a high degree of professional competence and integrity in the area in which employed. 

(2)  All employees of the commission shall be excluded from the provisions of Section 25-9-101 et seq., relating to the State Personnel System. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1979, ch. 508, § 3(11)(12); reenacted, Laws, 1982, ch. 488, § 8; reenacted, Laws, 1986, ch. 348, § 8; reenacted, Laws, 1990, ch. 491; Laws, 1995, ch. 360, § 8; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, ch. 350, § 8; Laws, 2008, ch. 562, § 3, eff August 5, 2008 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section.)