§ 2.40.010. Definitions.

Unless the context requires otherwise, the terms as used in these rules shall have the following meanings:

(a)

"Appointing authority" is an elected board, county manager, assistant county manager or department head having authority to make appointments to positions in the county service.

(b)

"Board" is the board of county commissioners.

(c)

"Class" is a group of positions sufficiently similar with respect to their duties and responsibilities that the same title may reasonably and fairly be used to designate each position allocated to the class, that substantially the same tests of fitness may be used, that substantially the same minimum qualifications may be required and that the same schedule of compensation may be made to apply with equity.

(d)

"Class specification" is a written description of a class, consisting of a title, a definition, examples of duties and minimum qualifications.

(e)

"Classification" is the systematic process of analytically grouping positions into classes based on the similarity of actual duties and responsibilities.

(f)

"Classification plan" consists of all the classes which have been established, along with the rules for maintaining the plan and the class specifications.

(g)

"Demotion" is any movement of an employee from one classification to another classification with a lower salary range excluding salary schedule adjustments.

(h)

"Department head" is an appointed or elected official directly responsible to the county manager or his/her designee, elected judges or the electorate for the overall administration of a department.

(i)

"Exempt status" is granted to a county employee designated exempt from the provisions of the merit system in accordance with NRS 245.216 or 3.310.

(j)

"Intermittent employee" is a person who has successfully completed an initial probationary period in a budgeted position in the competitive service which requires a scheduled workweek of at least twenty hours but less than forty hours per week.

(k)

"Part-time hourly employee" is a person hired to fill a position in the noncompetitive service having an irregularly scheduled workweek (normally less than twenty hours per week).

(l)

"Permanent position" is a budgeted position in the competitive service with a normally scheduled workweek of forty hours.

(m)

"Position" is a group of duties and responsibilities that have been assigned to an employee on a full-time or part-time basis and either approved by the board of county commissioners or established in statute.

(n)

"Promotion" is any movement of an employee from a position in a class to a position in a class having a higher maximum salary rate, excluding general salary adjustments and salary schedule adjustments.

(o)

"Reassignment" is any movement of an employee from one position to another position having the same salary range within the same department.

(p)

"Reclassification" is the reallocating of a position to its appropriate class based upon a comparative reevaluation of duties and responsibilities.

(q)

"Salary schedule" is the minimum and maximum salary set for each classification as designated by the position compensation plan.

(r)

"Salary schedule adjustment" is the change of the assigned salary schedule for a class when it is determined that the class is either under or over compensated in relationship to comparable positions in the job market.

(s)

"Seven hundred hour employee" is a person appointed to a position in accordance with NRS 245.185.

(t)

"Staff director" is an employee appointed by and reports directly to the county manager and heads a division in the office of the county manager.

(u)

"Temporary employee" is a person hired to fill a position in the noncompetitive service not to exceed six months.

(v)

"Transfer" is any movement of an employee from a position in one county department to a position in another county department having the same salary range.

(Ord. 2229 § 1, 1998: Ord. 1786 § 2 (part), 1996: Ord. 983 § 2 (part), 1986)