In the event of an injury to such an intermittent disaster response appointee, the position of the employee shall be deemed to be "one which would have afforded employment for substantially a whole year", for purposes of section 8114(d)(2) of such title.
Unlike the House of Delegates, the Senate has the sole responsibility in the state's legislative branch for confirming gubernatorial appointees to positions that require confirmation.
(The commissioner of the bureau is supposed to be a political appointee, but that position is vacant. The acting commissioner, John M. Galvin, has held the position since January, and he is a career civil servant).
Lieutenant General Merrill B. Twining was considered the likely appointee to the position; Lieutenant Generals Edward Pollock and Vernon E. Megee also aspired to the position of Commandant.
Crawford was a political appointee, and her position made her a kind of one-person grand jury.
The Graduate Student Academic Appointments Handbook is a guide that provides essential information for potential and current appointees to these positions.
"He's probably looking at a list of potential cabinet appointees, of key positions to be filled," said Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, who is close to Mr. Bush.
Ms. Perdue had less than half that number of appointees to work with, but the Republican-controlled legislature changed the rules in 2010 and allowed the new governor a much larger number of appointees in exempt positions.
If political appointees left their positions in an Obama administration, he said, they would be restricted from lobbying the executive branch for the rest of his time in office; now, his campaign said, there is no such restriction.
