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• § 17522 — (a) “Initial reimbursement claim” means a claim filed with the Controller by a local agency or school district for costs to be reimbursed for the fiscal years specified in the first claiming instructi
• § 17523 — “Deflator” means the Implicit Price Deflator for the Costs of Goods and Services to Governmental Agencies, as determined by the Department of Finance.
• § 17524 — “Base year entitlement” means that amount determined to be the average for the approved reimbursement claims of each local agency or school district for the three preceding fiscal years adjusted by th
• § 17525 — (a) There is hereby created the Commission on State Mandates, which shall consist of seven members as follows: (1) The Controller.
• § 17526 — (a) All meetings of the commission shall be open to the public, except that the commission may meet in executive session to consider the appointment or dismissal of officers or employees of the commis
• § 17527 — In carrying out its duties and responsibilities, the commission shall have the following powers: (a) To examine any document, report, or data, including computer programs and data files, held by any l
• § 17528 — The members of the commission shall elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson of the commission.
• § 17529 — The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission.
• § 17530 — The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall be exempt from civil service and shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission.
• § 17531 — The executive director may employ those officers, examiners, experts, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and employees as the executive director deems necessary to carry out the provision
• § 17532 — A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any power of the commission.
• § 17533 — Notwithstanding Section 11425.
• § 17550 — Reimbursement of local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state shall be provided pursuant to this chapter.
• § 17551 — (a) The commission, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall hear and decide upon a claim by a local agency or school district that the local agency or school district is entitled to be reimb
• § 17552 — This chapter shall provide the sole and exclusive procedure by which a local agency or school district may claim reimbursement for costs mandated by the state as required by Section 6 of Article XIII
• § 17553 — (a) The commission shall adopt procedures for receiving claims filed pursuant to this article and Section 17574 and for providing a hearing on those claims.
• § 17554 — With the agreement of all parties to the claim, the commission may waive the application of any procedural requirement imposed by this chapter or pursuant to Section 17553.
• § 17555 — (a) Not later than 30 days after hearing and deciding upon a test claim pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 17551, and determining the amount to be subvened to local agencies and school districts f
• § 17556 — The commission shall not find costs mandated by the state, as defined in Section 17514, in any claim submitted by a local agency or school district, if, after a hearing, the commission finds any one o
• § 17557 — (a) If the commission determines there are costs mandated by the state pursuant to Section 17551, it shall determine the amount to be subvened to local agencies and school districts for reimbursement.
• § 17557.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, within 30 days of the commission’s adoption of a statement of decision on a test claim, the test claimant and the Department of Finance may notify
• § 17557.2 — (a) A reasonable reimbursement methodology developed pursuant to Section 17557.
• § 17558 — (a) The commission shall submit the adopted parameters and guidelines or a reasonable reimbursement methodology approved pursuant to Section 17557.
• § 17558.5 — (a) A reimbursement claim for actual costs filed by a local agency or school district pursuant to this chapter is subject to the initiation of an audit by the Controller no later than three years afte
• § 17558.6 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the Commission on State Mandates review its process by which local agencies may appeal the reduction of reimbursement claims on the basis that the reduction is
• § 17558.7 — (a) If the Controller reduces a claim approved by the commission, the claimant may file with the commission an incorrect reduction claim pursuant to regulations adopted by the commission.
• § 17558.8 — (a) The commission may, on its own initiative, consolidate incorrect reduction claims filed with the commission by different claimants under the same mandate if all of the following apply: (1) The sam
• § 17559 — (a) The commission may order a reconsideration of all or part of a test claim or incorrect reduction claim on petition of any party.
• § 17560 — Reimbursement for state-mandated costs may be claimed as follows: (a) A local agency or school district may, by February 15 following the fiscal year in which costs are incurred, file an annual reimbu
• § 17561 — (a) The state shall reimburse each local agency and school district for all “costs mandated by the state,” as defined in Section 17514 and for legislatively determined mandates in accordance with Sect
• § 17561.5 — The payment of an initial reimbursement claim by the Controller shall include accrued interest at the Pooled Money Investment Account rate, if the payment is being made more than 365 days after adopti
• § 17561.6 — A budget act item or appropriation pursuant to this part for reimbursement of claims shall include an amount necessary to reimburse any interest due pursuant to Section 17561.
• § 17562 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the increasing revenue constraints on state and local government and the increasing costs of financing state-mandated local programs make evaluation
• § 17563 — Any funds received by a local agency or school district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for any public purpose.
• § 17564 — (a) No claim shall be made pursuant to Sections 17551, 17561, or 17573, nor shall any payment be made on claims submitted pursuant to Sections 17551 or 17561, or pursuant to a legislative determinatio
• § 17565 — If a local agency or a school district, at its option, has been incurring costs which are subsequently mandated by the state, the state shall reimburse the local agency or school district for those co
• § 17567 — In the event that the amount appropriated for reimbursement purposes pursuant to Section 17561 is not sufficient to pay all of the claims approved by the Controller, the Controller shall prorate claim
• § 17568 — If a local agency or school district submits an otherwise valid reimbursement claim to the Controller after the deadline specified in Section 17560, the Controller shall reduce the reimbursement claim
• § 17570 — (a) For purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Mandates law” means published court decisions arising from state mandate determinations by the State Board of Control or th
• § 17570.1 — As part of its review and consideration pursuant to Sections 17581 and 17581.
• § 17571 — The commission, upon request of a local agency or school district, shall review the claiming instructions issued by the Controller or any other authorized state agency for reimbursement of mandated co
• § 17572 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Early settlement of mandate claims will allow the commission to focus its efforts on rendering sound quasi-judicial decisions regarding com
• § 17573 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 17551, the Department of Finance and a local agency, school district, or statewide association may jointly request of the chairpersons of the committees in each house of th
• § 17574 — (a) A local agency or school district agrees to the following terms and conditions when it accepts reimbursement for a legislatively determined mandate pursuant to Section 17573: (1) Any unpaid reimbu
• § 17574.5 — The determination of a legislatively determined mandate pursuant to Section 17573 shall not be binding on the commission when making its determination pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 17551.
• § 17575 — When a bill is introduced in the Legislature, and each time a bill is amended, on and after January 1, 1985, the Legislative Counsel shall determine whether the bill mandates a new program or higher l
• § 17576 — Whenever the Legislative Counsel determines that a bill will mandate a new program or higher level of service pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, the Department of
• § 17577 — The estimate required by Section 17576 shall be the amount estimated to be required during the first fiscal year of a bill’s operation in order to reimburse local agencies and school districts for cos
• § 17578 — In the event that a bill is amended on the floor of either house, whether by adoption of the report of a conference committee or otherwise, in such a manner as to mandate a new program or higher level
• § 17579 — Any bill introduced or amended for which the Legislative Counsel has determined the bill will mandate a new program or higher level of service pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
• § 17581 — (a) No local agency shall be required to implement or give effect to any statute or executive order, or portion thereof, during any fiscal year and for the period immediately following that fiscal yea
• § 17581.5 — (a) A school district or community college district shall not be required to implement or give effect to the statutes, or a portion of the statutes, identified in subdivision (c) during any fiscal yea
• § 17581.6 — (a) Funding apportioned pursuant to this section shall constitute reimbursement pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution for the performance of any state mandates include
• § 17581.7 — (a) Funding apportioned pursuant to this section shall constitute reimbursement pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution for the performance of any state mandates include
• § 17581.8 — (a) (1) For the 2014–15 fiscal year, the sum of two hundred eighty-seven million one hundred forty-nine thousand dollars ($287,149,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Superintende
• § 17581.9 — (a) (1) For the 2015–16 fiscal year, the sum of three billion ninety-eight million four hundred fifty-five thousand dollars ($3,098,455,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Superin
• § 17581.95 — (a) (1) For the 2016–17 fiscal year, the sum of nine hundred forty-five million five hundred eighty-nine thousand dollars ($945,589,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Depar
• § 17581.96 — (a) (1) For the 2017–18 fiscal year, the sum of eight hundred seventy-six million five hundred eighty-one thousand dollars ($876,581,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Depa
• § 17581.97 — (a) (1) For the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of six hundred ninety-seven million seven hundred fifty-nine thousand dollars ($697,759,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Controller
• § 176 — The provisions of the interstate compact between the States of Arizona and California referred to in Section 175 are as follows: Interstate Compact Defining the Boundary Between the States of Arizona
• § 17600 — (a) At least twice each calendar year the commission shall report to the Legislature on the number of mandates it has found pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 17550) and the estimated stat
• § 17601 — The commission shall report to the Legislature on January 15, 1986, and each January 15 thereafter, on the number of claims it denied during the preceding calendar year and the basis on which the part
• § 17602 — On or before January 15, 2007, and on or before each January 15 thereafter, the commission shall report to the Legislature the number of individual and consolidated incorrect reduction claims decided
• § 17604 — (a) The Department of Finance, in collaboration with the Secretary of State and the Legislative Analyst’s Office, shall convene a working group to evaluate alternatives for funding election-related st
• § 17612 — (a) Upon receipt of the report submitted by the commission pursuant to Section 17600, except as provided in Section 13823.
• § 17613 — (a) The Director of Finance may authorize the augmentation of the amount available for expenditure to reimburse costs mandated by the state, as defined in Section 17514, as follows: (1) For augmentati
• § 17615 — The Legislature finds and declares that the existing system for reimbursing local agencies and school districts for actual costs mandated by the state on an annual claim basis is time consuming, cumbe
• § 17615.1 — The commission shall establish a procedure for reviewing, upon request, mandated cost programs for which appropriations have been made by the Legislature for the 1982–83, 1983–84, and 1984–85 fiscal y
• § 17615.2 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 17561, after November 30, 1985, for those programs included in the State Mandates Apportionment System, after approval by the commission, there shall be disbursed by the Co
• § 17615.3 — Notwithstanding Section 17561, by November 30, 1986, and by November 30 of each year thereafter, for those programs included in the State Mandates Apportionment System, the Controller shall recalculat
• § 17615.4 — (a) When a new mandate imposes costs that are funded either by legislation or in local government claims bills, local agencies and school districts may file reimbursement claims as required by Section
• § 17615.5 — (a) If any local agency or school district has an established base year entitlement which does not include costs for a particular mandate, that local agency or school district may submit reimbursement
• § 17615.6 — If a local agency or school district realizes a decrease in the amount of costs incurred because a mandate is discontinued, or made permissive, the Controller shall determine the amount of the entitle
• § 17615.7 — If a mandated program included in the State Mandates Apportionment System is modified or amended by the Legislature or by executive order, and the modification or amendment significantly affects the c
• § 17615.8 — (a) The commission shall establish a procedure for reviewing, upon request, any apportionment or base year entitlement of a local agency or school district.
• § 17615.9 — The commission shall periodically review programs funded under the State Mandate Apportionments System to evaluate the effectiveness or continued statewide need for each such mandate.
• § 17616 — The Controller shall have the authority to do either or both of the following: (a) Audit the fiscal years comprising the base year entitlement no later than three years after the year in which the bas
• § 17617 — The total amount due to each city, county, city and county, and special district, for which the state has determined that reimbursement is required under paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 6
• § 17630 — Except for Article 5, the provisions of this part shall be applicable to claims for state reimbursement of costs mandated by the state on and after January 1, 1985.
• § 177 — The Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact as set forth in Section 178 executed between the State of California, through its then Governor, Earl Warren, on December 10, 1951, and other states w
• § 1770 — An office becomes vacant on the happening of any of the following events before the expiration of the term: (a) The death of the incumbent.
• § 1770.1 — The disqualification from holding office upon conviction, as provided in Section 1021, or the forfeiture of office upon conviction, as provided in subdivision (h) of Section 1770 and Section 3000, is
• § 1770.2 — Upon the entry of a plea of guilty, the entry of a plea of nolo contendere, or the rendering of a verdict of a guilty either by a jury or by the court sitting without a jury of a public offense, the c
• § 17700 — (a) The state or any state board, department, agency, or authority, including, but not limited to, the State Public Works Board, may bring an action to determine the validity of its bonds, warrants, c
• § 1771 — (a) When an officer is removed, declared insane, or convicted of a felony or offense involving a violation of his or her official duty, or when his or her election or appointment is declared void, the
• § 1772 — When any office becomes vacant and no mode is provided by law for filling the vacancy, the Governor shall fill the vacancy by granting a commission, to expire at the end of the next session of the Leg
• § 1773 — When a vacancy occurs in the office of Representative to Congress, or in either house of the Legislature, the Governor shall within 14 calendar days after the occurrence of the vacancy issue a writ of
• § 1773.5 — In addition to any other applicable provision of law, a vacancy occurs in the office of Representative in Congress in the event of his or her disappearance, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 10
• § 1774 — (a) When an office, the appointment to which is vested in the Governor and Senate, either becomes vacant or the term of the incumbent thereof expires, the Governor may appoint a person to the office o
• § 1774.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the appointment by the Governor of a person to a public office is subject to confirmation by the Senate, and the Senate confirms the appointment wi
• § 1774.2 — (a) For any person whose term of office expires prior to Senate confirmation and who is reappointed to that office, the time served prior to, as well as subsequent to, the expiration date of the prior
• § 1774.3 — With respect to any body or entity having more than one member, including, but not limited to, a board, commission, or committee, “office” includes every position on the body or entity, regardless of
• § 1774.5 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no person holding an office which is deemed to be vacant pursuant to Section 1774 may, after the time the office has been deemed to be vacant pursuant to t
• § 1774.7 — (a) Sections 1774, 1774.
• § 1775 — Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, or Attorney General, or on the State Board of
• § 1776 — Except as otherwise provided in the Constitution, when a person is appointed by the Governor, or by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, either to fill a vacancy in any offic
• § 1777 — After filing his official oath and bond, any person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy possesses all the rights and powers and is subject to all the liabilities, duties, and obligations of the off
• § 1778 — A vacancy in any appointive office on the governing board of a special district shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors of the county in which the larger portion of the district is
• § 1779 — A vacancy on any appointed governing board of a special district shall be filled by the appointing authority within 90 days immediately subsequent to its occurrence.
• § 178 — The provisions of the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact between the State of California and other states which are parties to the compact referred to in Section 177 are as follows: The Sta
• § 178.5 — In addition to any other authority conferred upon him, the Governor is authorized and may execute for, on behalf of, and in the name of the State of California, the provisions of Article XV to the Int
• § 1780 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a vacancy in any elective office on the governing board of a special district, other than those specified in Section 1781, shall be filled pursuant to t
• § 1781 — The provisions of Section 1780 shall not apply to a school district, a district organized pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section 11501) of the Public Utilities Code, or a district subject to
• § 1782 — Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, whenever a vacancy occurs on a state board or commission, or a seat on a board or commission is abolished by statute, the board or commission shall noti
• § 179 — (a) It is the intent of the State of California to continue its long history of sharing emergency response resources with other states during times of disaster.
• § 179.5 — The provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact between the State of California and other states that are parties to the compact referred to in Section 179 are as follows: Article 1.
• § 179.7 — (a) Notwithstanding Article 6 of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.
• § 179.8 — Notwithstanding the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.
• § 179.9 — This article shall become inoperative on March 1, 2038, and, as of January 1, 2039, is repealed.
• § 18 — “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States.
• § 180 — As used herein, “property” includes real and personal property.
• § 18000 — The salary fixed by law for each state officer, elective or appointive, is compensation in full for that office and for all services rendered in any official capacity or employment whatsoever, during
• § 18000.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 18000 and 19990, any officer or employee of the state may receive for his or her personal use compensation from any nonprofit corporation formed exclusively to aid and ass
• § 18000.7 — (a) The services of a California Science and Technology Policy Fellow provided by the California Council on Science and Technology and duly authorized by an executed memorandum of understanding betwee
• § 18000.8 — (a) The services of a policy fellow provided by an association are not compensation of a state elective or appointive officer for the purposes of this article.
• § 18001 — Every employee has the right to inspect personnel records pursuant to Section 1198.
• § 18003 — The Controller may, prior to the close of any pay roll period, draw his warrant in favor of any officer or employee covering the total salary or compensation earnable by him during that pay roll perio
• § 18004 — (a) Any report, study, audit, evaluation, survey, or similar document prepared by any state officer or state agency, which discloses any change in the numbers of state employees or personnel years ove
• § 181 — The original and ultimate right to all property within the limits of the State is in the people thereof.
• § 18150 — The oath required by this chapter is the oath set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of California.
• § 18150.5 — If the provisions of this chapter are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1, the memor
• § 18151 — The oath required by this chapter shall be taken and subscribed by: (a) Every person who is appointed to a State position not in the State civil service and not otherwise so required by law, within 30
• § 18152 — The method and manner of taking, subscribing, and filing the oath by a person appointed to a State position not in the state civil service shall be as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 13
• § 18153 — The oath shall be taken by a state civil service employee before his appointing power or before any person authorized in writing by his appointing power or before any person authorized by law to admin
• § 18154 — Any person who is appointed to a State position not in the State civil service and who fails to take the oath required by this chapter within the time provided forthwith forfeits his right to his posi
• § 18155 — The failure of any person who is appointed to a permanent position in the State civil service to take and subscribe the oath within the time provided in this chapter, is a cause for dismissal by the S
• § 18156 — Each civil service employee who takes, subscribes and files the oath within the time prescribed by Section 18151 is conclusively presumed to have been and to be legally holding his position as far as
• § 18157 — Every appointing power shall notify every new civil service employee immediately following his appointment of the provisions of this chapter that are applicable to the employee.
• § 18158 — No fee shall be charged by any person before whom the oath is taken and subscribed.
• § 182 — All property within the limits of the State, which does not belong to any person, belongs to the people.
• § 18200 — A person shall not be knowingly employed by any state agency or court who either directly or indirectly carries on, advocates, teaches, justifies, aids, or abets a program of sabotage, force and viole
• § 18210 — The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this chapter is to establish basic minimum procedural requirements for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of board regulations.
• § 18211 — Regulations adopted by the State Personnel Board are exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 18212 — For the purposes of this chapter, “regulation” means every rule, regulation, order, or standard of general application adopted or amended by the board to implement, interpret, or make specific the law
• § 18213 — A regulation concerning the following may be adopted without public notice or comment: (a) Selection and examinations.
• § 18214 — (a) The procedures set forth in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to the adoption of a regulation concerning all matters not specified in Section 18213, 18215, or 18216.
• § 18215 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), regulations concerning the following subject matters shall be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 18216 — Regulations concerning contracting out shall be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 18220 — (a) State agencies, when hiring for internships and student assistant positions, shall give preference to a qualified applicant who is, or has been, a dependent child in foster care, a homeless youth,
• § 183 — The State may acquire property by taxation in the modes authorized by law.
• § 185 — The Governor may execute and deliver to the United States all necessary deeds or other conveyances on behalf of the State, in any case where the Legislature conveys to the United States land, rights o
• § 1850 — Every officer is entitled to the possession of all books and papers pertaining to his office, or in the custody of a former incumbent by virtue of his office.
• § 18500 — It is the purpose of this part: (a) To facilitate the operation of Article VII of the Constitution.
• § 18501 — This part and Part 2.
• § 18502 — (a) There is hereby created in state government the Department of Human Resources.
• § 1851 — If any person, including a former incumbent, refuses or neglects to deliver to the actual incumbent any such books or papers, the actual incumbent may petition any court of record sitting in the count
• § 1852 — After notice to the adverse party, the court or judge shall proceed in a summary way to hear the allegations and proof of the parties, and to order any such books or papers to be delivered to the peti
• § 18520 — Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this part and the rules adopted hereunder.
• § 18521 — “Board” means the agency created by Section 2 of Article VII of the California Constitution and includes the “State Personnel Board” provided in Section 2(a) and the “executive officer” provided in Se
• § 18521.5 — “Department” means the Department of Human Resources.
• § 18522 — “Position” means any office or employment in the “state civil service” as the phrase is defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution.
• § 18523 — “Class” means a group of positions sufficiently similar with respect to duties and responsibilities that the same title may reasonably and fairly be used to designate each position allocated to the cl
• § 18524 — “Appointing authority” or “appointing power” means a person or group having authority to make appointments to positions in the state civil service.
• § 18525 — “Appointment” means the offer to and acceptance by a person of a position in the State civil service in accordance with this part.
• § 18525.1 — “Promotion” means the appointment of an employee to a position in a different class with a higher salary range, unless the appointment is by transfer, as defined by subdivision (b) of Section 18525.
• § 18525.2 — “Demotion” means the appointment of an employee to a position in a different class with a lower salary range, as provided by Section 19253 if voluntary, by Section 19253.
• § 18525.3 — “Transfer” means both of the following: (a) The appointment of an employee to another position in the same class but under another appointing power.
• § 18526 — “Employee” means a person legally holding a position in the State civil service.
• § 18527 — “Probationer” means an employee who has probationary status.
• § 18528 — “Permanent employee” means an employee who has permanent status.
• § 18529 — “Temporary employee” means an employee holding a position under temporary appointment.
• § 1853 — The execution of the order and the delivery of the books and papers may be enforced by: (a) Attachment as for a witness.
• § 18530 — “Limited term employee” means an employee whose appointment as a result of reinstatement or certification from an employment list shall not exceed two years, as specified by Section 19080.
• § 18531 — “Emergency employee” means an employee holding a position under emergency appointment.
• § 18532 — “Eligible list” means a list of persons who have been examined in an open competitive examination and are eligible for certification for a specific class.
• § 18532.1 — “Preferred limited term list” means a list of persons who have served under limited-term appointment and who, in accordance with rule, are granted eligibility for additional limited-term appointments.
• § 18532.2 — “Departmental eligible list” means a list of persons who have been examined in an open competitive examination and who are eligible for certification for a specific class for a particular appointing p
• § 18533 — (a) “Subdivisional promotional list” means a list of persons eligible for certification for a specific class resulting from a promotional examination for a particular subdivision of a state agency.
• § 18534 — “General reemployment list” means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in any State agency, irrespective of the State agency in which the persons were previously em
• § 18535 — “Departmental reemployment list” means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in a particular State agency.
• § 18536 — “Subdivisional reemployment list” means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in a particular subdivision of a State agency.
• § 18537 — “Employment list” means preferred limited-term list, limited-term list, eligible list, departmental eligible list, subdivisional promotional list, departmental promotional list, multidepartmental prom
• § 18538 — “Part” means this part, Part 2.
• § 1854 — Every person who wilfully and knowingly intrudes himself into any public office to which he has not been elected or appointed, and every person who, having been an executive, administrative or ministe
• § 18540 — “Armed forces” means the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
• § 18540.1 — “National emergency” as used in this part means any period in which the United States is at war prior to the declaration by the Governor of a state military emergency.
• § 18540.2 — “State military emergency,” as used in this part, means an emergency declared and terminable by the Governor by proclamation during, but not limited to, such times as the United States is conscripting
• § 18540.3 — “Recognized military service” means full-time service by a person in the armed forces during the national emergency or a state military emergency.
• § 18540.4 — “Veteran” means: Any person who has served full time in the armed forces in time of national emergency or state military emergency or during any expedition of the armed forces and who has been dischar
• § 18541 — “Disabled veteran” means any veteran as defined in Section 18540.
• § 18542 — “Rehabilitation” as used within this part shall mean a restoration of veterans declared to be 10 per cent or more disabled, either physically or mentally.
• § 18543 — “Military leave” means the leave of absence status of a permanent employee or probationer who leaves a position to serve in the armed forces of the United States in time of national emergency or state
• § 18544 — “Duration employment” means an employment during time of war or during an emergency in connection with the national defense, which employment is subject to termination and other conditions as prescrib
• § 18545 — “Duration examination” means an open competitive examination, or promotional examination, held for the express purpose of providing a list of persons available for duration employment.
• § 18546 — “Career executive” means an employee appointed from an employment list established for the express purpose of providing a list of persons who are eligible for career executive assignments, as specifie
• § 18547 — “Career executive assignment” means an appointment to a high administrative and policy influencing position within the state civil service in which the incumbent’s primary responsibility is the managi
• § 1855 — Every officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or after he has resigned or been legally removed from office, willful
• § 18550 — A “full-time” position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work the amount of time required for the employee to be compensated at a full-time rate.
• § 18551 — A “part-time” position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work a specific fraction of the full-time work schedule.
• § 18552 — An “intermittent” position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work periodically or for a fluctuating portion of the full-time work schedule.
• § 18553 — “Core competencies” mean the particular education, experience, knowledge, and abilities that each applicant is required to have in order to be considered eligible for a particular group of classificat
• § 18570 — This part shall be known as the State Civil Service Act.
• § 18571 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this part.
• § 18572 — Whenever a power is granted or a duty imposed upon an appointing power, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by a deputy of the appointing power or by a person authorized pursuant to law b
• § 18573 — Each appointing power shall provide access to records and prepare reports as required by the board or the department.
• § 18574 — All officers and employees of the state and any county, city, district, or other subdivision of the state recognized by law shall aid in all proper ways in carrying this part and the board rules into
• § 18575 — (a) (1) The appointing power shall provide service of the following actions by personal service or by certified mail with return receipt requested or express service carrier as provided in this subdiv
• § 18576 — Judicial notice shall be taken of board and department rules, regulations, and amendments.
• § 18577 — Whenever this part refers to “board rules,” “rules of the board,” “rules,” or makes a similar reference, that reference authorizes the board to make rules concerning the subject matter for which that
• § 18590 — This part does not prohibit any state agency which is authorized by law to contract for such services from contracting with an independent contractor for the performance of work of a character for whi