This text of Kansas § 74-4914a (Retirement date for certain employees of the department of corrections; security officer defined) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Kansas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(1)As used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, inclusive, and amendments thereto, "security officer" means any person, as certified to the board by the secretary of corrections, who is employed on or after the effective date of this act as an employee of the department of corrections: (a)Who is in any position in a job class in the corrections officer class series including but not limited to corrections officer I, corrections officer II, corrections supervisor I, corrections supervisor II and corrections supervisor III, or in a position in the corrections counselor I, corrections counselor II, unit team supervisor or corrections classification administrator job class, as all such job classes are described on the effective date of this act in the state job classification plan in effect for t
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(1) As used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, inclusive, and amendments thereto, "security officer" means any person, as certified to the board by the secretary of corrections, who is employed on or after the effective date of this act as an employee of the department of corrections:
(a) Who is in any position in a job class in the corrections officer class series including but not limited to corrections officer I, corrections officer II, corrections supervisor I, corrections supervisor II and corrections supervisor III, or in a position in the corrections counselor I, corrections counselor II, unit team supervisor or corrections classification administrator job class, as all such job classes are described on the effective date of this act in the state job classification plan in effect for the classified service under the Kansas civil service act or who is in a position in any successor job class or classes that have been approved under K.S.A. 75-2938, and amendments thereto, and that have substantially the same duties and responsibilities thereof;
(b) who is promoted prior to or on or after the effective date of this act from a position in any job class under paragraph (a) to any position in any job class of warden or deputy warden of any correctional institution, the job class of work release supervisor, the job class of training officer, correctional institutions, or the job class of corrections administrator — security specialist as such job classes are described on the effective date of this act in the state job classification plan in effect for the classified service under the Kansas civil service act or to any successor job class or classes that are approved under K.S.A. 75-2938, and amendments thereto, and that have substantially the same duties and responsibilities, if the person was employed and had at least three consecutive years of service in any one or more positions in any one or more job classes described in paragraph (a) immediately preceding promotion to the position in a job class under this paragraph (b);
(c) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities directly and primarily involve operation of power plant facilities within any correctional institution and involve regular contact with inmates;
(d) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities directly and primarily involve the operation of the correctional industries activity of the department of corrections within a correctional institution and involve regular contact with inmates;
(e) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities directly and primarily involve supervision of food service operations within any correctional institution and involve regular contact with inmates; or
(f) who is in any position for which the duties and responsibilities directly and primarily involve supervision of maintenance operations within any correctional institution and involve regular contact with inmates.
(2) As used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, inclusive, and amendments thereto, references to the department of corrections include correctional institutions as defined by K.S.A. 75-5202 and amendments thereto unless the context requires otherwise.
(3) The words and phrases used in K.S.A. 74-4914a to 74-4914e, inclusive, and amendments thereto, shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 74-4902, and amendments thereto, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context.