The Commissioner of Administrative Services may provide for the appointment, with or without examination, of qualified persons in a class in which the incumbent serves for not more than three years in the class as part of an established training program. Any person so appointed to a professional or preprofessional training class may, upon successful completion of the required minimum working test period and training program, be reclassified to a position in the next higher level class for which the training program is established. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sections 5-224 and 7-415 concerning the veterans preference.

(1967, P.A. 657, S. 43; 1969, P.A. 658, S. 11; P.A. 76-254, S. 5, 11; P.A. 77-248; 77-614, S. 67, 610; P.A. 92-19; 92-165, S. 24, 32; P.A. 96-168, S. 14, 34; P.A. 14-187, S. 45.)

History: 1969 act added provisions concerning preprofessional classes as entry classes for disadvantaged; P.A. 76-254 divided section into Subsecs. (a) and (b) and deleted provision regarding point credit and other credit for promotional exams in preprofessional classes; P.A. 77-248 amended Subsec. (a) re reassignment to next higher class of training program without examination; P.A. 77-614 replaced personnel policy board with commissioner of administrative services; P.A. 92-19 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the service requirement from two years to three years; P.A. 92-165 changed “employment list” to “candidate list”, provided that appointments may be made on the basis of such form evaluation as the commissioner may require and made technical changes; P.A. 96-168 deleted former Subsec. (b) re establishment of preprofessional classes and amended former Subsec. (a) to make technical change concerning persons appointed to a professional or preprofessional training class and eliminated requirement of completion of working test period prior to reclassification, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 14-187 deleted “by regulation”, effective June 11, 2014.