§ 126A-5-12.  Career employee promotional priority.

If a career employee in a position subject to this Article meets all of the following, the employee shall receive priority consideration over an applicant who is not a career employee:

(1) The career employee applies for a position at an agency that would constitute a promotion.

(2) The career employee has substantially equal qualifications to any applicant who is not a career employee.  (2026-40, s. 1.)