Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

All departments of the state of
Idaho and all employees in such departments, except those employees
specifically defined as nonclassified, shall be classified employees, who are
subject to this chapter and to the system of personnel administration which it
prescribes. Nonclassified employees shall be:
(a) Members of the state legislature and all other officers of the state
of Idaho elected by popular vote, and persons appointed to fill vacancies in
elective offices, and employees of the state legislature.
(b) Members of statutory boards and commissions and heads of departments
appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the governor, deputy directors
appointed by the director and members of advisory boards and councils
appointed by the departments.
(c) All employees and officers in the office, and at the residence, of
the governor; and all employees and officers in the offices of the lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, state
controller, and state superintendent of public instruction who are appointed
on and after the effective date of this chapter.
(d) Except as otherwise provided by law, not more than one (1) declared
position for each board or commission and/or head of a participating
department in addition to those declared to be nonclassified by other
provisions of law.
(e) Part-time professional consultants who are paid on a fee basis for
any form of legal, medical or other professional service, and who are not
engaged in the performance of administrative duties for the state.
(f) Judges, temporary referees, receivers and jurors.
(g) All employees of the Idaho supreme court, Idaho court of appeals and
district courts.
(h) All employees of the Idaho state bar.
(i) Assistant attorneys general attached to the office of the attorney
general.
(j) Officers, members of the teaching staffs of state educational
institutions, the professional staff of the Idaho department of education
administered by the board of regents and the board of education, and the
professional staffs of the Idaho division of professional-technical education
and vocational rehabilitation administered by the state board for
professional-technical education. "Teaching staff" includes teachers, coaches,
resident directors, librarians and those principally engaged in academic
research. The word "officer" means presidents, vice presidents, deans,
directors, or employees in positions designated by the state board who receive
an annual salary of not less than step "A" of the pay grade equivalent to
three hundred fifty-five (355) Hay points in the state compensation schedule.
A nonclassified employee who is designated as an "officer" on July 5, 1991,
but does not meet the requirements of this subsection, may make a one (1) time
irrevocable election to remain nonclassified. Such an election must be made
not later than August 2, 1991. When such positions become vacant, these
positions will be reviewed and designated as either classified or
nonclassified in accordance with this subsection.
(k) Employees of the military division.
(l) Patients, inmates or students employed in a state institution.
(m) Persons employed in positions established under federal grants,
which, by law, restrict employment eligibility to specific individuals or
groups on the basis of nonmerit selection requirements. Such employees shall
be termed "project exempt" and the tenure of their employment shall be limited
to the length of the project grant, or twenty-four (24) months, or four
thousand one hundred sixty (4,160) hours of credited state service, whichever
is of the shortest duration. No person hired on a project-exempt appointment
shall be employed in any position allocated to the classified service.
(n) Temporary employees.
(o) All employees and officers of the following named commodity
commissions, and all employees and officers of any commodity commission
created hereafter: the Idaho potato commission, as provided in chapter 12,
title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho honey advertising commission, as provided in
chapter 28, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho bean commission, as provided in
chapter 29, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho prune commission, as provided in
chapter 30, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho hop grower's commission, as
provided in chapter 31, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho wheat commission, as
provided in chapter 33, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho pea and lentil
commission, as provided in chapter 35, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho apple
commission, as provided in chapter 36, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho cherry
commission, as provided in chapter 37, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho mint
grower's commission, as provided in chapter 38, title 22, Idaho Code; the
state board of sheep commissioners, as provided in chapter 1, title 25, Idaho
Code; the state brand inspector, and all district supervisors, as provided in
chapter 11, title 25, Idaho Code; the Idaho beef council, as provided in
chapter 29, title 25, Idaho Code; and the Idaho dairy products commission, as
provided in chapter 31, title 25, Idaho Code.
(p) All inspectors of the fresh fruit and vegetable inspection service of
the Idaho department of agriculture, except those positions involved in the
management of the program.
(q) All employees of correctional industries within the department of
correction.
(r) All deputy administrators and wardens employed by the department of
correction. Deputy administrators are defined as only the six (6) deputy
administrators working directly for the two (2) nonclassified division
administrators under the director of the department of correction.
(s) All public information positions with the exception of secretarial
positions, in any department.
(t) Any division administrator.
(u) Any regional administrator or division administrator in the
department of environmental quality.
(v) All employees of the division of financial management.
(w) All employees of the Idaho food quality assurance institute.
(x) The state appellate public defender, deputy state appellate public
defenders and all other employees of the office of the state appellate public
defender.
(y) All quality assurance specialists or medical investigators of the
Idaho board of medicine.

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