The commissioner may employ stewards for thoroughbred racing, judges for harness racing, greyhound racing and jai alai, and veterinarians who shall be exempt from classified service, and may employ, subject to the provisions of chapter 67, such other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner shall require such persons to submit to state and national criminal history records checks before being employed. The criminal history records checks required pursuant to this section shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a. All persons employed pursuant to this section, with the exception of any steward, judge or veterinarian, shall be residents of the state at the time of and during the full term of their employment.

(1971, P.A. 865, S. 3; P.A. 73-652, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-172, S. 1, 2; P.A. 79-404, S. 10, 45; P.A. 01-175, S. 3, 32; P.A. 11-61, S. 116.)

History: P.A. 73-652 made appointment of clerks, stenographers, inspectors, agents etc. subject to the provisions of chapter 67 but exempted others from classified service, increased personnel to include assistant directors, assistants to executive secretary and chiefs of thoroughbred racing, harness racing, greyhound racing and jai alai, required fingerprinting of all personnel and exempted stewards, judges and veterinarians from residency requirement; P.A. 75-172 included stewards, judges and veterinarians in employment provision and exempted them from classified service; P.A. 79-404 gave power to employ personnel to executive director with advice and consent of gaming policy board, substituted references to division of special revenue for references to commission on special revenue where appropriate, replaced references to divisions with “units” to avoid confusion with division of special revenue and deleted provisions re powers of executive secretary; P.A. 01-175 made technical changes for the purposes of gender neutrality and replaced provisions re fingerprinting with provisions re criminal history records checks pursuant to Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 11-61 deleted provisions re unit heads, replaced “executive director” with “commissioner”, deleted “division” and “clerks, stenographers, inspectors, agents and” and made a technical change, effective July 1, 2011.

Cited. 224 C. 693.