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74-99b11. Employees; powers and duties; exempt from Kansas civil service act; employee health insurance. (a) The authority may employ such employees as it may require and upon such terms and conditions as it may establish. The authority shall establish personnel, payroll, benefit and other such systems as authorized by the board, such systems to be initially established or contracted as designated by the board. The authority shall determine the qualifications and duties of its employees. The board shall develop and adopt policies and procedures that will afford its employees grievance rights, ensure that employment decisions shall be based upon merit and fitness of applicants and shall prohibit discrimination because of race, religion, color, sex or national origin.

(b) Nothing in this act or any act of which it is amendatory shall be construed as placing any officer or employee of the authority or member of the board in the classified or the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act.

(c) The authority is authorized to establish a health insurance plan for the benefit of its employees.

History: L. 2004, ch. 112, § 11; July 1.