PURPOSE: This rule prescribes the confidentiality of certain records and specifies the form in which reports of personnel changes are to be made.

1. (1) Records. The records of the Personnel Division, except examinations, service reports, personal histories and other records as may be specified in these rules or by action of the board as confidential, shall be public records and shall be open to public inspection, during regular office hours at reasonable times and in accordance with procedures as the board may prescribe (reference section 36.420, RSMo).
2. (2) Reports. The director shall prescribe the necessary forms for reports of all personnel changes in the service. The forms shall pro- 1 CSR 20-1

vide spaces for entering the supporting or otherwise pertinent information as the director shall deem to be needed. The forms or supplementary instructions to appointing authorities shall explain which of the changes call for prior approval of the director before they may become effective, which of them require reports, when made and which of them need to be reported sufficiently in advance of the end of the payroll period to permit them to be given effect in the checking and approval of the next payroll.

AUTHORITY: section 36.070, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed July 9, 1947, effective July 19, 1947. *Original authority: 36.070, RSMo 1945, amended 1979.