CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Civil Service Commission.A former independent federal agency that supervised the government’s personnel system. • The agency was created in 1883 and abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978. Its functions were transferred to the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Personnel Management. See MERIT SYS-TEMS PROTECTION BOARD; OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT . [Cases: Officers and Public Employees 72.20. C.J.S. Officers and Public Employees §§ 143, 195.] [Blacks Law 8th]