(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the following positions in the Executive Branch of State government are in the executive service:
- (1) the chief administrator of a principal unit or a comparable position that is not excluded from the State Personnel Management System under § 6-301 of this title as a constitutional or elected office; and
- (2) a deputy secretary or assistant secretary of a principal unit or a position that the Secretary determines has similar stature.
- (b) The executive service includes any other position that is determined by the Secretary to be in the executive service.
Added by Acts 1996, c. 347, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1996.