55-438. Same; transfer of officers and employees; retention of benefits and rights; service deemed continuous.
55-438
55-438. Same; transfer of officers and employees; retention ofbenefits and rights; service deemed continuous.On the effective date of this act, officers and employeeswho, immediately prior to such date, were engaged in the performance ofpowers, duties or functions of the petroleum products inspectionlaw pertaining to theactual inspection of the products specified in K.S.A. 55-423, andamendments thereto, and who, in theopinion of the secretary of agriculture, are necessarytoperform thepowers, duties and functions of the petroleum products inspectionlaw pertaining to theactual inspection of the products specified in K.S.A. 55-423, andamendments thereto, shall betransferred to, and shall become officers and employees of the statedepartmentof agriculture. Any such officer or employee shall retain all retirementbenefits and all rights of civil service which had accrued to or vested insuch officer or employee prior to the effective date of this act. Theservice of each such officer and employee so transferred shall be deemed tohave been continuous.
History: L. 1989, ch. 163, § 14;L. 1993, ch. 58, § 7;L. 1996, ch. 105, § 10; July 1.