Georgia § 50-8-16 - Rights of state employees transferred from Bureau of Community Affairs; validity of bureau's legal contracts.
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§ 50-8-16. Rights of state employees transferred from Bureau of Community Affairs; validity of bureau's legal contracts.
State employees transferred from the Bureau of Community Affairs to the Department of Community Affairs on July 1, 1977, shall retain all rights, entitlements, and privileges as state employees and shall participate in the various state personnel programs as they were previously entitled or authorized to participate. Any legal contracts entered into by the bureau which were in effect on July 1, 1977, are transferred and shall continue in effect under the Department of Community Affairs under their normally prescribed termination or expiration. (Code 1981, § 50-8-16 , enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 38, § 1.)
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