Section 45-28-121.03 - Applicability(a) This part shall apply to all officers and employees in the service of the county except: (2) Members of appointive boards, commissions, and committees.(3) All employees and appointees of the county board of education, or persons engaged in the profession of teaching or in supervising teaching in the public schools.(4) Attorneys, who with the express or implied permission of any appointing authority or the county, hold themselves out for employment by others in the same or like line of work as that performed by them for such appointing authority.(5) Persons in the classified service within the meaning of and subject to the State of Alabama Merit System under any present or future law, and so long as such law remains effective.(6) Chief clerks, chief deputies, the county engineer, the road foreman, the personnel director, the shop foreman, chief appraisers, and/or any other declassified personnel as defined by the rules of the personnel board in the offices of the elective officers and officials.(b) Offices, positions, and employment designated above as coming within the scope of this part, and other offices, positions, and employments not exempted above, shall constitute the classified service of the county. It is intended hereby to include within the classified service all offices, positions, and employments now existing, or as they hereafter exist, which are paid in whole or in part from funds of the county, or the holders of which receive their compensation from any elected official and perform duties pertaining to the office of such elected official or officer except those hereinabove exempted in this section. It shall be made mandatory, upon the enactment of this part into law, that all employees hereinabove designated to be included with the classified service of the county.Ala. Code § 45-28-121.03 (1975)