§ 18-3. Personnel.

(a) Director to appoint.

The Director shall appoint such assistants, aides, and employees as may be necessary to carry out a disaster control and civil defense program and also the State Civil Defense Plans and Programs, such employees to be subject to the provisions of City classified service, as provided by Article VII, §§ 94 through 104 of the City Charter.

(b) Personnel transferred.

The personnel now employed by the Civil Defense Division of the Fire Department are hereby transferred to the Office of Disaster Control and Civil Defense of Baltimore City, without diminution or loss of any rights or privileges heretofore earned or obtained by them.

Any additional employees of this Office who may be required in an expanded program shall be as provided in the annual Ordinance of Estimates or as provided by the Board of Estimates.