Section 8-30-103 - Chapter definitionsAs used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Appointing authority" means a commissioner, department, officer or agency having power to make appointments to, and separations from, positions in state service;(2) "Board of appeals" means the state employees' appeals board established by § 8-30-108 of this chapter;(3) "Class" or "class of positions" means a group of positions in state service determined by the commissioner to have sufficiently similar duties, authority, and responsibility such that: (A) The same qualifications may be reasonably required for; and(B) The same schedule of pay may be equitably applied to; all positions in the group;
(4) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of human resources appointed under § 8-30-104;(5) "Department" means the department of human resources pursuant to § 8-30-104. The term includes the commissioner;(6) "Executive service" means all other positions that have not been placed under the preferred service and as are described in § 8-30-202;(7) "Official station" means the town or city where the employee performs a majority of the employee's duties;(8) "Preferred service" means all offices and positions of employment in the state service that have been placed under the preferred service provisions of this chapter;(9) "State agency" means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality in state service that is subject to this chapter; and(10) "State service" shall have the same meaning assigned in § 8-30-102(a).Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 655, s 28, eff. 7/1/2022. Acts 2012 , ch. 800, § 4.