§ 2-93. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:

(1)

Employee. Those persons employed by the City of Newport News. Employee shall also include the constitutional officers and their employees, the registrar and the registrar's employees, the sheriff and the sheriff's employees, and the clerk of court and the clerk's employees. The term employee shall not include independent contractors nor shall it include school board employees, boards and commission members or employees of agencies for which the city acts as fiscal agent.

(2)

Regular position. A position which has an expected duration of one (1) year.

(a)

Regular full-time positions have an established work schedule of forty (40) hours per week or equivalent (e.g., fire department employees assigned to the three-platoon system).

(b)

Regular part-time positions have an established work schedule of twenty (20) hours or more per week for at least forty (40) weeks per year.

(3)

Temporary position. A position not meeting the criteria defining regular full-time or regular part-time positions.

(Ord. No. 4259-91)

(Ord. No. 4259-91)