Effective the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven, any person employed in any of the agencies consolidated by this article who is a classified civil service employee shall, within the limits provided in article six of this chapter, remain in the civil service system as a covered employee; and all persons employed by the division of culture and history shall be employed under the classified service of the civil service system within the limits provided in article six of this chapter.
W. Va. Code § 29-1-10