2-18-103. Officers and employees excepted. Parts 1 through 3 and 10 do not apply to the following officers and employees in state government:
     (1) elected officials;
     (2) county assessors and their chief deputies;
     (3) employees of the office of consumer counsel;
     (4) judges and employees of the judicial branch;
     (5) members of boards and commissions appointed by the governor, the legislature, or other elected state officials;
     (6) officers or members of the militia;
     (7) agency heads appointed by the governor;
     (8) academic and professional administrative personnel with individual contracts under the authority of the board of regents of higher education;
     (9) academic and professional administrative personnel and live-in houseparents who have entered into individual contracts with the state school for the deaf and blind under the authority of the state board of public education;
     (10) investment officer, assistant investment officer, executive director, and five professional staff positions of the board of investments;
     (11) four professional staff positions under the board of oil and gas conservation;
     (12) assistant director for security of the Montana state lottery;
     (13) executive director and employees of the state compensation insurance fund;
     (14) state racing stewards employed by the executive secretary of the Montana board of horseracing;
     (15) executive director of the Montana wheat and barley committee;
     (16) commissioner of banking and financial institutions;
     (17) training coordinator for county attorneys;
     (18) employees of an entity of the legislative branch consolidated, as provided in 5-2-504;
     (19) chief information officer in the department of administration;
     (20) chief business development officer and six professional staff positions in the office of economic development provided for in 2-15-218;
     (21) chief public defender appointed by the public defender commission pursuant to the Montana Public Defender Act, Title 47, chapter 1, and the employees in the positions listed in 47-1-201(3)(a), who are appointed by the chief public defender; and
     (22) chief appellate defender in the office of appellate defender.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 440, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 256, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 391, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 488, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 565, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 59-904; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 365, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 412, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 512, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 176, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 161, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 581, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 316, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 39, Ch. 613, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 660, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 262, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 447, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 507, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 395, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 630, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 455, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 545, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 24, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 339, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 417, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 549, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 32, Ch. 313, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 483, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 449, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 24, L. 2011.