§ 12.01. Personnel policy and administration established.

§ 12.02. Civil service commission—Number, qualifications, selection and term of members.

§ 12.03. Same—Duties.

§ 12.04. Director of personnel.

§ 12.05. Selection and dismissal of metropolitan employees; limitation on number of positions held.

§ 12.06. Adoption of rules by civil service commission.

§ 12.07. Substantive content of rules of the commission.

§ 12.08. Positions in classified service and in unclassified service.

§ 12.09. Civil service commissions for board of health, board of hospitals and board of education.

§ 12.10. Adoption of classification and general pay plan.

§ 12.11. Offenses against civil service and disabilities of civil service employees.

§ 12.12. Continuance of existing civil service rights of county and city employees.

§ 12.13. Pay plan for employees of metropolitan police department and fire department.

2. Sheriff may appoint such deputies and other employees as may be necessary to carry out his or her duties, but in selecting employees to operate the metropolitan workhouse, is bound by the civil service provisions of the Metropolitan Charter, except for the superintendent or warden of such workhouse, who shall be appointed by the sheriff to serve at his or her will. Metropolitan Government v. Poe, 215 Tenn. 53, 383 S.W. 2d 265 (1964).