(1) All non-elective County employees, excluding department heads and the County Administrator, employed by the County on the effective date of this Charter shall continue in County employment at as nearly as similar a position as possible and shall receive not less than the same rate of compensation which they were receiving on the effective date of this Charter, and thereafter shall be covered by the personnel system, unless appointed to an exempt position and shall be subject to all its rules, except the rules concerning initial employment.

(2) The terms department head and County Administrator shall refer to those department heads and the County Administrator as existing on April 1, 1980, or those substituted with substantially similar duties. (Originally Adopted November 4, 1980)