State Administration Board of Election Laws v. Billhimer

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves Maryland’s Merit System Law, Maryland Code (1988 Repl.Vol.), Article 64A (the Act) and whether, under its provisions, the Deputy Administrator of the State Administrative Board of Election Laws is a classified or unclassified State employment position.1

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The “classified service” is defined in § 1 to mean “all offices of profit or trust and all places of employment, *49whether permanent or temporary, in the service of any State ... department, commission, board or institution” other than those in the military forces and those enumerated in § 3. With…