§ 16-59-22. Applicability of merit system — Teacher certification — List of positions transferable to classified service.
(a) The appointment, promotion, salaries, tenure, and dismissal of administrative, instructional, and research employees, and secretarial employees not exceeding ten (10) in number, and armed college police officers of the state colleges shall not be subject in any manner or degree to control by the personnel administrator or by any officer or board other than the council on postsecondary education.
(b) All positions that are exempt from the merit system law, chapter 4 of title 36, which become vacant or that are to be established, must be forwarded to the personnel administrator, who, in consultation with the deputy assistant commissioner of education in charge of personnel and labor relations, shall determine whether the position(s) in question shall remain in the council on postsecondary education non-classified service or be established in the classified service of the state.
(c) No position presently in the classified service of the state subject to the merit system law, chapter 4 of title 36, shall be changed or modified so as to establish the position in the council on postsecondary education non-classified service.
(d) Faculty positions, presidents, vice presidents, deans, assistant deans, and student employees of the higher-education institutions shall not be covered by the preceding provisions and shall remain in the council on postsecondary education non-classified service.
History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 84, § 122; P.L. 2014, ch. 145, art. 20, § 5; P.L. 2016, ch. 391, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 405, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 88, art. 9, § 6.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Section 16-59-1. - Council on Postsecondary Education established.
Section 16-59-2. - Appointment of members of the council on postsecondary education.
Section 16-59-3. - Removal of public members of board.
Section 16-59-4. - Powers and duties of the council on postsecondary education.
Section 16-59-4.1. - Repealed.
Section 16-59-5. - Meetings of board.
Section 16-59-6. - Commissioner of postsecondary education.
Section 16-59-7. - [Repealed.]
Section 16-59-7.1. - Permanent status for non-classified employees.
Section 16-59-7.2. - Longevity payments — Nonclassified employees.
Section 16-59-9. - Educational budget and appropriations.
Section 16-59-9.2. - Military tuition waiver.
Section 16-59-9.3. - Student Success Act.
Section 16-59-10. - Existing academic privileges preserved.
Section 16-59-11. - Investigative powers of board.
Section 16-59-12. - Exemption from provisions of Administrative Procedures Act.
Section 16-59-13. - Definitions.
Section 16-59-14. - Pertinence of certain law relating to state colleges to board of governors.
Section 16-59-15. - Liberal construction of chapter required.
Section 16-59-16. - Meaning of terms in existing law.
Section 16-59-17. - Severability.
Section 16-59-18. - Receipts from sources other than appropriations.
Section 16-59-19. - Fiscal accounts — Receipts — Petty cash funds.
Section 16-59-20. - Audit of expenditures.
Section 16-59-21. - Freedom from budget and lease control by other agencies.
Section 16-59-23. - Conflicts of interest.
Section 16-59-24. - Accessibility for people with disabilities.
Section 16-59-25. - Voter registration forms.
Section 16-59-25.1. - Maintenance of voter registration files.
Section 16-59-26. - The public and private partnership in education.
Section 16-59-27. - Sale and purchase of degrees solely on the basis of life experience prohibited.