§ 1051. Authority of general assembly to provide for merit system.

The general assembly shall have authority to enact laws creating a civil service commission and civil service system and merit system for employees of DeKalb County and for employees and deputies of county officers of DeKalb County; and, further, to establish tenure of office for such employees and deputies and to define the powers, duties and responsibilities of the civil service commission, employees and deputies coming under civil service classification, and county officers, in respect thereto; and, further, to provide exceptions and exemptions to the operation of said laws.

(Acts 1949, p. 2137, § 1)

Editor's note

The above is a local constitutional amendment to Ga. Const. 1945, art. VII, § IV, par. I. Pursuant to Ga. Const. 1983, art. XI, § I, par. IV, and subject to certain exceptions, constitutional amendments were repealed as of July 1, 1987 unless continued by one (1) of the methods provided in such paragraph on or before such date. The above amendment was continued by Acts 1985, p. 3771. The introductory language for the amendment which states what portion of the constitution is amended has been deleted.