§ 233. [Civil service system established.]

(a)

From and after the passage and approval of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be created and established by the governing authority of Paulding County a civil service system of personnel administration, to be known as the Paulding County Civil Service System. The said governing authority shall be authorized to create such civil service system by appropriate resolution, which resolution shall specify the department, personnel, and offices of the county government governed by such system and the effective date of said system.

(b)

It is specifically provided that elected officials of Paulding County appointed members of boards, commissions, and authorities of Paulding County, the supervisors or heads or other chief executive officers, by whatever name designated, of all departments of Paulding County, whether presently existing or hereafter created, the county attorney, and the secretary of the Paulding County Commission shall not be under or subject to the Paulding County Civil Service System. Except as limited by the foregoing sentence and by Section 5 of this Act relating to employees of elected county officers, the Paulding County Commission, pursuant to the resolution adopted under subsection (a) of this section, or pursuant to any other resolution or ordinance that may be adopted from time to time by said commission, shall have the authority to place all employees, or any category of employees, of Paulding County under said civil service system.

(1980 Ga. Laws, page 3119, § 2; 1993 Ga. Laws, page 5186, § 1)