Kentucky Revised Statutes Title IX. Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units § 97.253.Employees are subject to civil service

(1) The employees of any former board of park commissioners in any city of the first class, except the special park police, shall be employed by and continued in the service of the department of public parks and recreation. The employees, except as herein provided, are subject to any law or amendments thereof, or any rules and regulations issued pursuant thereto, governing any city board or commission empowered to administer and enforce civil service laws, rules and regulations in and for the city, it being the intent and purpose of KRS 97.250 to 97.257 to make such laws, rules and regulations applicable to the offices, positions and places of employment in the department of public parks and recreation.

(2) The following offices, positions, and places of employment in the department of public parks and recreation, to wit: director of parks and recreation, private secretary to the director, golf professionals, golf greensmen, checkers, countermen, locker attendants, caretakers, janitors, janitresses, laundresses, cleaners, tractor and truck drivers, teamsters and stablemen, and laborers, are hereby specifically excepted from the provisions of the civil service law, rules and regulations. The foregoing excepted offices, positions, and places of employment, except the office of director, may hereafter be placed in the classified service, under the law, by the legislative body of the city by ordinance.