54:33-11 - Certain officers and employees;  retention

54:33-11.  Certain officers and employees;  retention
    The officers and employees formerly in the employ of the comptroller of the  treasury, who were transferred to and continued as employees of the state tax  department by virtue of an act entitled  "An act to supplement chapter two  hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and seventeen, being  an act entitled "An act concerning the officers or employments of appraisers  and employees appointed or employed by the comptroller of the treasury pursuant  to the provisions of an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act  to tax the transfer of property of resident and nonresident decedents by  devise, bequests, descent, distribution by statute, gift, deed, grant, bargain  and sale, in certain cases,' approved April twentieth, one thousand nine  hundred and nine," approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and  fourteen,' approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen,"  approved  April twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one (L.1931, c. 202,  p. 502), shall be retained in their offices and positions in the state tax department unless removed in accordance with the civil service laws.