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Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-18-120.10

  • merit employee: means any such employee who shall have completed his or her six months of probationary employment; "board" means the merit system board created by this article; "appointing authority" means in the case of employees in the offices of the elected officials of the county, such elected officials, and means, in the case of all other county employees, the county governing body, or the board or other agency supervising their work. See Alabama Code 45-18-120.01
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

An appointing authority, shall have authority to suspend without pay a merit employee for any personal misconduct, or fact, affecting or concerning his or her fitness or ability to perform his or her duties in the public interest. In the event a merit employee is suspended without pay for more than 30 days in anyone year, he or she shall be entitled to a public hearing by the merit system board upon written demand filed within five days from the date of the order of suspension. If, after hearing, the merit system board determines that the action of the appointing authority was not with good cause, the suspension shall be revoked.