66-1320. Transfer of certain employees to highway patrol; rights preserved; application of civil service laws.
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66-1320. Transfer of certain employees to highway patrol; rights preserved; application of civil service laws. From and after the effective date of this act, all officers and employees of the department of revenue who are performing functions relating to the actual operation of motor carrier inspection stations within this state or to the enforcement of the laws referred to in K.S.A. 66-1318 , and amendments thereto, and the rules and regulations relating thereto, and who, in the opinion of the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol are necessary to perform the powers, functions and duties of the highway patrol are hereby transferred from the department of revenue to the highway patrol.
All such officers and employees shall retain all retirement benefits and all rights of civil service which such officer or employee had before July 1, 1988, and their service shall be deemed to have been continuous. All transfers and any abolishment of positions of personnel in the classified civil service under the Kansas civil service act shall be in accordance with civil service laws and rules and regulations. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, no person who occupies a position on July 1, 1988, which position (or a position parallel thereto) is provided by this act to be in the unclassified service, shall retain any rights of the classified civil service.