§2. Classified and Unclassified Service
Section 2.(A) Classified Service. The state and city civil service is divided into the
unclassified and the classified service. Persons not included in the unclassified service are
in the classified service.
NOTE: Paragraph (B) eff. until ratification of the const. amend. proposed by Acts 2025, No.
223.
(B) Unclassified Service. The unclassified service shall include the following
officers and employees in the state and city civil service:
(1) elected officials and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices;
(2) the heads of each principal executive department appointed by the governor, the
mayor, or the governing authority of a city;
(3) city attorneys;
(4) registrars of voters;
(5) members of state and city boards, authorities, and commissions;
(6) one private secretary to the president of each college or university;
(7) one person holding a confidential position and one principal assistant or deputy
to any officer, board, commission, or authority mentioned in (1), (2), (4), or (5) above, except
civil service departments;
(8) members of the military or naval forces;
(9) teaching and professional staffs, and administrative officers of schools, colleges,
and universities of the state, and bona fide students of those institutions employed by any
state, parochial, or municipal agency;
(10) employees, deputies, and officers of the legislature and of the offices of the
governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, each mayor and city attorney, of police
juries, school boards, assessors, and of all offices provided for in Article V of this
constitution except the offices of clerk of the municipal and traffic courts in New Orleans;
(11) commissioners of elections, watchers, and custodians and deputy custodians of
voting machines;
(12) railroad employees whose working conditions and retirement benefits are
regulated by federal agencies in accordance with federal law; and
(13) the director, deputy director, and all employees of the Governor's Office of
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
Additional positions may be added to the unclassified service and those positions may
be revoked by rules adopted by a commission.
NOTE: Paragraph (B) eff. upon ratification of the const. amend. proposed by Acts 2025, No.
223.
(B) Unclassified Service. The unclassified service shall include the following officers
and employees in the state and city civil service:
(1) elected officials and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices;
(2) the heads of each principal executive department appointed by the governor, the
mayor, or the governing authority of a city;
(3) city attorneys;
(4) registrars of voters;
(5) members of state and city boards, authorities, and commissions;
(6) one private secretary to the president of each college or university;
(7) one person holding a confidential position and one principal assistant or deputy
to any officer, board, commission, or authority mentioned in (1), (2), (4), or (5) above, except
civil service departments;
(8) members of the military or naval forces;
(9) teaching and professional staffs, and administrative officers of schools, colleges,
and universities of the state, and bona fide students of those institutions employed by any
state, parochial, or municipal agency;
(10) employees, deputies, and officers of the legislature and of the offices of the
governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, each mayor and city attorney, of police
juries, school boards, assessors, and of all offices provided for in Article V of this
constitution except the offices of clerk of the municipal and traffic courts in New Orleans;
(11) commissioners of elections, watchers, and custodians and deputy custodians of
voting machines;
(12) railroad employees whose working conditions and retirement benefits are
regulated by federal agencies in accordance with federal law; and
(13) the director, deputy director, and all employees of the Governor's Office of
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
Additional positions may be added to the unclassified service and those positions may
be revoked by rules adopted by a commission. Additional officers, positions, and employees
may be added to the unclassified service in the state civil service by law and such additional
officers, positions, and employees may be removed from the unclassified service only by law.
Acts 2009, No. 538, §1, approved Oct. 2, 2010, eff. Nov. 2, 2010; Acts 2025, No.
223, §1, eff. See Act.