Section 36-15-10.1

Special administrative assistants.

(a) The position of special administrative assistant to the Attorney General is created and established.

(b) The Attorney General may appoint or employ in the manner the Attorney General deems necessary seven special administrative assistants who shall perform the duties and exercise the powers as the Attorney General may direct. The special administrative assistants shall serve at the pleasure of the Attorney General. The compensation, salaries, expenses, or benefits for the special administrative assistants shall be paid from funds available to the Attorney General and in the amounts and manner as provided for deputy attorneys general under this article.

(c) Any person serving in the classified service of the State of Alabama may be considered by the Attorney General for appointment to the position of special administrative assistant to the Attorney General. In the event anyone serving in the classified service of the State of Alabama shall accept appointment as a special administrative assistant to the Attorney General and shall later be removed or resign from the position of special administrative assistant to the Attorney General, the person shall revert to his or her former position in which he or she held status in the classified service. The reversion shall be without loss of salary or other benefits which would have accrued to the person and to which he or she would have been entitled had he or she remained within the classified service.

(Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 91-736, p. 5, §5; Acts 1995, No. 95-770, p. 1819, §1.)