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2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20401.5.

20401.5. (a) “State safety member” also includes state prosecutors and state public defenders.
(b) For purposes of this part, “state prosecutor” means a state officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria:
(1) He or she is employed by the Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General.
(2) His or her job classification is Chief Assistant Attorney General, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or any other similar classification or title.
(3) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date the state employer and the bargaining unit elect to be subject to this section as provided in subdivision (f).
(c) For purposes of this part, “state public defender” means a state officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria.
(1) He or she is employed by the Office of the State Public Defender.
(2) His or her job classification is State Public Defender, Senior Deputy State Public Defender, Supervising Deputy State Public Defender, Deputy State Public Defender, or any other similar classification or title.
(3) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date the state employer and the bargaining unit elect to be subject to this section as provided in subdivision (f).
(d) Past state miscellaneous service performed by a state prosecutor or state public defender who becomes a state safety member pursuant to this section shall be converted to state safety service if the past service was rendered in a position that has subsequently been reclassified as a state safety position pursuant to this section. Any unfunded liability resulting from this section shall be paid by the employer.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, state prosecutors and state public defenders shall be subject to the benefit formula contained in Section 21369.1, or any other benefit formula applicable to state safety members that does not provide benefits greater than those benefits provided under Section 21363.1.
(f) This section does not apply to any officers or employees described in subdivision (b) or (c) who are members of State Bargaining Unit 2 unless and until the state employer and the bargaining unit elect to be subject to this section by amendment to or by express provision in a memorandum of understanding entered into between the parties.
(g) This section does not apply to any officer or employee described in subdivision (b) or (c) who dies prior to the date the state employer and the bargaining unit elect to be subject to this section as provided in subdivision (f).
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1152, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20402.

20402. “State safety member” shall also include those persons while employed by the San Francisco Port Authority prior to their transfer to the San Francisco Port Commission whose principal duties consisted of active law enforcement and who were peace officers, as defined in former Section 830.35 of the Penal Code, as amended by Chapter 460 of the Statutes of 1979, but excluding any person whose principal duties did not clearly fall within the scope of active law enforcement even though the person is subject to occasional call, or is called upon occasionally, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20403.

20403. “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees in (a) the Department of Corrections employed to perform the duties now performed in positions with the following class titles: Deputy Director, Department of Corrections; Deputy Director, Institutions, Camps and Program Services Division; Deputy Director, Parole and Community Services; Warden; Warden—San Quentin; Superintendent II and III, Department of Corrections; Deputy Superintendent; Correctional Administrator; Program Administrator, Correctional Institution; all classes of Correctional Program Supervisor; Correctional Captain; Correctional Lieutenant; Correctional Sergeant; Correctional Officer; all classes of Women’s Correctional Supervisor; Assistant Deputy Director, Parole and Community Services; all classes of Parole Administrator, Adult Parole; all classes of Parole Agent, Adult Parole; Assistant Director, Investigations and Law Enforcement Liaison; Senior Special Agent; Special Agent; all classes of Women’s Parole Agent; Medical Facility Superintendent; Superintendent, California Institution for Women; all classes of Correctional Counselor; Chief and Assistant Chief Transportation Officer, (b) the Department of the Youth Authority employed to perform the duties now performed in positions with the following class titles: Director, Department of the Youth Authority; Chief, Division of Parole and Community Services; Deputy Chief, Division of Parole and Community Services; Program Administrator, Correctional School; Assistant Superintendent, Correctional School; all classes of Superintendent, Correctional School; Youth Authority Camp Superintendent; Assistant Superintendent, Youth Authority Camp; Chief, Division of Institutions; Treatment Team Supervisor; all classes of Transportation Officers, Youth Authority; Security Officer; all classes of Group Supervisors; all classes of Parole Agent, Youth Authority; all classes of Youth Counselor; Supervisor Community Treatment Programs; Correctional Casework Training Supervisor; Correctional Casework Trainee; all classes of Correctional Counselor, (c) the Board of Prison Terms employed to perform duties now performed in positions with the following class titles: all classes of Parole Agent; all classes of Correctional Counselor and the Chief of Investigation, (d) the Youthful Offender Parole Board employed to perform duties now performed in positions with the following class titles: all classes of Parole Agent, and (e) the Prison Industry Authority employed to perform duties now performed in positions with the following class titles: General Manager; Assistant General Manager, Administration and Marketing Branch; Chief, Industry Implementation Division; and Activation Manager.
(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 678, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1999.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20404.

20404. Notwithstanding Section 20401 “state safety member” shall include persons employed as members of a state college police department who meet the minimum standards of competence established by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 13500) of Title 4 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, except those members employed under class titles of Parking Officer and Campus Guard.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20405.1.

20405.1. Notwithstanding Section 20405, this section shall apply to state employees in state bargaining units that have agreed to these provisions in a memorandum of understanding between the state employer and the recognized employee organization, as defined in Section 3513, state employees who are excluded from the definition of “state employee” by subdivision (c) of Section 3513, and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service.
(a) On and after the effective date of this section, state safety members shall also include officers and employees whose classifications or positions are found to meet the state safety criteria prescribed in Section 19816.20, provided the Department of Human Resources agrees to their inclusion, and officers and employees whose classifications or positions have been designated as subject to state safety membership pursuant to Section 19816.21. For employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the effective date of safety membership shall be the date on which the department and the employees’ exclusive representative reach agreement by memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 3517.5 or any later date specified in the memorandum of understanding. For employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the Department of Human Resources shall determine the effective date of safety membership.
(b) The department shall notify the board as new classes or positions become eligible for state safety membership, as specified in subdivision (a), and specify how service prior to the effective date shall be credited.
(c) The department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature an annual report that contains the classes or positions that are eligible for state safety membership under this section.
(d) Any person designated as a state safety member pursuant to this section may elect, within 90 days of notification by the board, to remain subject to the miscellaneous or industrial service retirement benefit and contribution rate by filing an irrevocable election with the board. A member who so elects shall be subject to the reduced benefit factors specified in Section 21076, 21353, or 21354.1, as applicable, only for service also included in the federal system.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 115. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20405.2.

20405.2. A member who made the election to remain under the miscellaneous or industrial retirement benefit, as provided in Section 20405.1, may elect to be subject to the state safety formula within 90 days of notification by the board. The election, which shall be provided by the board on and after January 1, 2000, shall be filed with the board. Past service that would have been credited as a safety member, but for the member’s election to remain under the miscellaneous or industrial formula, shall be credited under the safety formula. This section shall apply to state employees in state bargaining units that have agreed to this provision in a memorandum of understanding, or authorized by the Director of Human Resources for classifications of state employees that are excluded from the definition of state employee by paragraph (c) of Section 3513.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 116. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20405.3.

20405.3. (a) A member who is an employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who made the election to remain under the state industrial membership classification, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 20405, may elect to be subject to state safety membership within 90 days of notification by the board, if the employee is in any of the following classifications:
(1) Dentist, Correctional Facility.
(2) Physician and Surgeon, Correctional Facility.
(3) Staff Psychiatrist, Correctional Facility.
(4) Podiatrist, Correctional Facility.
(b) The election, which shall be provided by the board on and after January 1, 2002, shall be filed with the board. Past service that would have been credited as a state safety member, but for the member’s election to remain under the state industrial formula, shall be credited as safety service.
(c) This section shall apply to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 16 and, if authorized by the Director of Human Resources, state employees that are excluded from the definition of “state employee” by paragraph (c) of Section 3513.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 117. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20406.

20406. “State safety member” also includes persons employed by the state to perform lifeguard services and whose principal duties consist of active protection, rescue, and rendition of aid or assistance to persons injured or imperiled at beaches and lakes, streams, dams, reservoirs, or other bodies of open water, but not including swimming pools, and including members employed to perform duties performed under the titles of “District Aquatic Supervisor,” “Lifeguard Supervisor,” and “Lifeguard” or equivalent successor classes, some of which (including the maintenance of peace and order and the apprehension of law violators) are customarily performed by police or peace officers, and whose other duties (such as resuscitation work involving the use of special equipment in cases having no connection with their principal duties) that in other areas are customarily performed by firemen, and other and further duties that do not come directly within any of the above classifications but are essential to the safety and security of the public, other than persons employed under those titles on a seasonal basis, but excluding clerical, maintenance personnel, and others who do not fall within the scope of active lifeguarding or lifesaving services as described in this section even though those persons are subject to occasional call or are occasionally called upon to perform duties within the scope of active lifeguarding or lifesaving.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20407.

20407. “State safety member” also includes officers and employees with the State Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the following classifications:
Classification
Code
Classification Title
8254
Prelicensed Psychiatric Technician
_____
(forensic facility)
8253
Psychiatric Technician
_____
(forensic facility)
8252
Senior Psychiatric Technician
_____
(forensic facility)
8212
Nurse Practitioner
_____
(forensic facility)
8160
Health Services Specialist
_____
(forensic facility)
7601
Program Director-Medical
_____
(forensic facility)
“State safety member” also includes an officer or employee of the State Department of State Hospitals at Patton State Hospital or Atascadero State Hospital, the State Department of State Hospitals Psychiatric Program of California Medical Facility at Vacaville, or any other state hospital that is deemed a forensic facility, who either is excluded from the definition of state employee in subdivision (c) of Section 3513 or is a nonelected officer or employee of the executive branch of government who is not a member of the civil service. An officer or employee may be a state safety member under this paragraph only if the person has responsibility for the direct supervision of state safety personnel specified in the classifications listed in this section and if the State Personnel Board determines that these officers and employees meet the state safety membership criteria established pursuant to Section 18717. The Department of Human Resources shall determine which classes meet the above conditions and report its findings to the Public Employees’ Retirement System, whereupon the change in membership categories shall take effect.
Any person so designated pursuant to this section may elect, within 90 days of notification by the board, to remain subject to the miscellaneous service retirement benefit and contribution rate by filing an irrevocable notice of election with the board. A member who so elects shall be subject to the reduced benefit factors specified in Section 21353 or 21354.1, as applicable, only for service also included in the federal system.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 440, Sec. 27. (AB 1488) Effective September 22, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20407.5.

20407.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 20407, any person designated as a state safety member pursuant to Section 20407 who elected to remain subject to the miscellaneous service retirement benefit and contribution rate as provided in that section may elect instead to be subject to the state safety service retirement benefit and contribution rate.
(b) This section shall apply to those officers and employees of the State Department of State Hospitals described in Section 20407 who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 18 and who became safety members effective January 1, 1998, when the Napa State Hospital and the Metropolitan State Hospital were designated as forensic facilities.
(c) This section shall also apply to any member who is excluded from the definition of state employee in subdivision (c) of Section 3513 and who is directly associated with employees represented by State Bargaining Unit 18.
(d) The election provided under this section shall be filed with the board by the member within 90 days after notification by the board that the member has the right to elect to be subject to the state safety member service retirement formula and contribution rates. If the election is not made by the member, he or she shall remain subject to the miscellaneous service retirement benefit and contribution rate.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 440, Sec. 28. (AB 1488) Effective September 22, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20408.

20408. “State safety member” also includes officers and employees with the State Department of State Hospitals or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the following classifications:
Classification
Code
Classification Title
2860
Audio Visual Assistant (Correctional
Facility)
2861
Audio Visual Specialist (Correctional
Facility)
8094
Registered Nurse (Forensic Facility)
“State safety member” also includes an officer or employee of the State Department of State Hospitals at Patton State Hospital or Atascadero State Hospital, who either is excluded from the definition of state employee in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, or is a nonelected officer or employee of the executive branch of government who is not a member of the civil service. An officer or employee may be a state safety member under this paragraph only if the person has responsibility for the supervision of state safety personnel specified in the classifications listed in this section and if the State Personnel Board determines that these officers and employees meet the state safety membership criteria established pursuant to Section 18717. The Department of Human Resources shall determine which classes meet the above conditions and report its findings to this system, whereupon the change in membership categories shall take effect.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 440, Sec. 29. (AB 1488) Effective September 22, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20410.

20410. “State safety member” also includes all persons in the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Board of Parole Hearings, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Developmental Services, the Department of Health Care Services, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the California Horse Racing Board, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Department of Insurance, the State Department of State Hospitals, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the Department of Social Services employed with the class title of Special Investigator (Class Code 8553), Senior Special Investigator (Class Code 8550), Investigator Trainee (Class Code 8555) and Investigator Assistant (Class Code 8554), Supervising Special Investigator I (Class Code 8548), Special Investigator II (Class Code 8547), and persons in the class of State Park Ranger (Intermittent) (Class Code 0984) in the Department of Parks and Recreation, who have been designated as peace officers as defined in Sections 830.2 and 830.3 of the Penal Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 76, Sec. 95. (AB 383) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20411.

20411. “State safety member” also includes members employed in the positions with the classification of Vocational Instructor (Barber Shop Practices) (Correctional Facility) (Class Code 2441).
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 48. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20412.

20412. “State safety member” shall also include persons employed to perform full-time active firefighting duties performed on April 1, 1972, under the titles of “institution fire chief,” “institution fireman,” and “campus firefighter” by state agencies other than the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 49. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20413.

20413. “State safety member” shall also include persons employed under the title of “campus firefighter” who performed active firefighting duties for the state on April 1, 1973, and who, on January 1, 1979, performed those duties for a local agency providing fire protection under contract to the state.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 50. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20414.

20414. “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: State Park Ranger Trainee, State Park Ranger I, State Park Ranger II, State Park Ranger III, State Park Ranger IV, and State Park Technician.
“State safety member” also includes members employed in the Military Department in the following classifications: Firefighter Guard, Supervising Firefighter Guard, and Chief Firefighter Guard.
“State safety service,” with respect to a member who becomes a state safety member pursuant to this section, shall also include service with the specified departments prior to April 1, 1982.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 51. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20415.

20415. “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: Manager I, State Park; Manager II, State Park; Manager III, State Park; Manager IV, State Park; and Manager V, State Park. New incumbents to these classes who are not peace officers, shall receive the training required by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within two years of appointment.
“State safety service,” with respect to a member who becomes a state safety member pursuant to this section, shall also include service prior to September 22, 1982.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 52. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 3 - Safety Member Classification State › Section 20416.

20416. “State safety member” includes all persons specified in this article by employer, classification, or duties performed, except persons in those classes defined as state peace officer/firefighter members.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20420.

20420. “Local safety member” includes all local police officers, local sheriffs, firefighters, safety officers, county peace officers, and school safety members, employed by a contracting agency who have by contract been included within this system.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 871, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20421.

20421. “Local safety member” also includes all employees of a city who have by contract been included within this system, and whose principal duties consist of active protection, rescue, and rendition of aid or assistance to persons injured or imperiled in water areas at ocean beaches and the recovery from those water areas of submerged objects and bodies of persons drowned or believed to have drowned in those areas, or the immediate supervision thereof, including persons employed to perform the duties now performed under the titles of aquatics director, chief lifeguard, captain lifeguards, lieutenant lifeguards, beach lifeguard, but who performs additional duties, some of which (including the maintenance of peace and order and the apprehension of law violators) are customarily performed by police or peace officers, and whose other duties (such as resuscitation work involving the use of special equipment in cases having no connection with their principal duties) that in other areas are customarily performed by firefighters, and other and further duties that do not come directly within any of the above classifications but are essential to the safety and security of the public, excluding those whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise clearly do not fall within the scope of active lifeguarding or lifesaving service, even though the person is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active lifeguarding or lifesaving service.
This section does not apply to the employees of any contracting agency having a contract with the board made prior to September 18, 1959, until the agency elects to subject itself and its employees to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract with the board pursuant to Section 20474; except that an election is required only among the employees to whom the provisions of this section apply.
The amendments of this section, made by Chapter 130 of the Statutes of 1982 do not constitute a substantive change in the law and shall not be construed to entitle any person to any right or benefit that he or she was not already entitled to prior to December 31, 1982.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20422.

20422. “Local safety member” also includes all employees of a public agency whose principal duties consist of rendering prehospital emergency medical care to ill or injured persons and who are employees designated as Emergency Medical Technician-I, Emergency Medical Technician-II, or Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic, as defined by, respectively, Sections 1797.80, 1797.82, and 1797.84 of the Health and Safety Code.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract with the board made pursuant to Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20423.

20423. “Local safety member” also includes any harbor or port police officer, employed by a contracting agency, who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision (b) of Section, 830.33 of the Penal Code and whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement of the laws contained in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 650) of Division 3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, the rules and regulations of the California Department of Boating and Waterways, and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 9850) of Division 3.5 of the Vehicle Code.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract with the board, pursuant to Section 20474, or by express provision within its contract with the board.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20423.3.

20423.3. (a) “Local safety member” also includes any airport patrol officer, airport law enforcement officer, or airport police officer employed by a contracting agency who is a peace officer, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 830.33 of the Penal Code, employed by a city, county, or district operating the airport or by a joint powers agency, created pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, operating the airport, if the primary duty of the peace officer is the enforcement of the law in or about properties owned, operated, or administered by the employing agency or when performing necessary duties with respect to patrons, employees, or properties of the employing agency.
(b) This section shall not apply to any contracting agency or to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract with the board, pursuant to Section 20474, or by express provision within its contract with the board.
(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 79, Sec. 1. (AB 86) Effective January 1, 2010.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20423.5.

20423.5. “Local safety member” also includes any park ranger employed by a contracting agency who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 830.31 of the Penal Code and whose primary responsibility is maintaining the peace and whose duties include law enforcement, emergency medical care first response, or fire suppression and prevention.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract with the board pursuant to Section 20474, or by express provision within its contract with the board.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 101. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20424.

20424. “Local safety officer” means any officer or employee of a public safety department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise and whose functions do not clearly fall within the scope of active law enforcement or firefighting and prevention service even though the employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement or firefighting and prevention service, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as patrol officers or equal or higher rank, or as firefighters, hose officers, or equal or higher rank, irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned.
“Local safety officer” does not include persons employed to perform identification or communication duties. This paragraph shall not apply to persons employed and qualified as patrol officers or equal or higher rank, or as firefighters, hose officers, or equal or higher rank.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20425.

20425. “Local police officer” means any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency which is a city, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise and whose functions do not clearly fall within the scope of active law enforcement service even though the employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement service, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as patrolmen or equal or higher rank irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned.
“Local police officer” does not include persons employed to perform identification or communication duties, other than persons in that employment on August 4, 1972, who elected within 90 days thereafter to be local safety members. A contracting agency may elect by amendment to its contract to include as “local police officer” all persons who were employed to perform identification or communication duties on August 4, 1972, and who elect within 60 days of the effective date of the contract amendment to be local safety members. The election shall apply to the person’s past as well as future service in the employment held on the effective date but shall not apply to service following any subsequent acceptance of appointment to a position other than that held on the effective date. This paragraph shall not apply to persons employed and qualified as patrol officers or equal or higher rank.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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20426. “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency that is a city, employed to perform communication duties for an employer that contracted with this system for coverage for its local police officers on October 1, 1948, and who elected to become a local safety member on August 25, 1973, pursuant to Chapter 91 of the Statutes of 1973.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for the approval of contracts or, in the case of contracts made after January 1, 1989, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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20427. “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a juvenile bureau of a contracting agency whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement service, except persons whose principal duties are clerical or otherwise clearly do not fall within the scope of active law enforcement, even though the person is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement.
The provisions of this section do not apply to the employees of any contracting agency having a contract with the board made prior to September 22, 1951, until the agency elects to subject itself and its employees to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract with the board pursuant to Section 20474; except that an election is required only among the employees to whom Section 20427 applies.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 4 - Membership Classifications › ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools › Section 20428.

20428. “Local police officer” shall also include any officer or employee of a contracting agency that is a city and county, in any employment in which he or she was a law enforcement member as defined by Section 20402 at the time of the assumption by the city and county of the function in which he or she was employed.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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20429. “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a contracting agency other than a city or a county who is a peace officer as defined in the Penal Code and whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement but excluding clerical personnel or those whose principal duties are that of communication officer, identification officer, machinist, mechanic, security officer or are otherwise not clearly within the scope of active law enforcement, even though the person is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement.
The provisions of this section shall apply to any contracting agency that is not a city or county with respect to any of its employees who were local police officers within the meaning of Section 20425 prior to its amendment by Chapter 625 of the Statutes of 1975 and in employment on January 1, 1976.
The provisions of this section shall not otherwise apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to any contracting agency until the contracting agency elects to be subject to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract with the board made as provided in Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 102. Effective January 1, 2003.)
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20430. “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district that has established a police department pursuant to Section 38000 or 72330 of the Education Code, whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement service, except persons whose principal duties are clerical or otherwise clearly do not fall within the scope of active law enforcement, even though the person is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement. This section shall only apply to any school district or community college district that prior to June 30, 1982, had amended its contract to provide membership for local police officers.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 330, Sec. 4. (SB 782) Effective January 1, 2020.)
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20431. “Local police officer” also includes any employee of a contracting agency that is a city, who is employed in a jail or a detention or correctional facility and having as his or her primary duty and responsibility the supervision and custody of persons committed to the jail or facility. It shall not include persons employed as clerks, typists, teachers, instructors, or psychologists or to provide food, maintenance, health, or supporting services, even though responsibility for custody and control of persons so committed may be incident to, or imposed in connection with, that service.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by contract or by amendment to its contract with the board, made pursuant to Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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20432. (a) “Local sheriff” means any officer or employee of a sheriff’s office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise, and whose functions do not clearly come within the scope of active law enforcement service even though the employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active law enforcement service, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as deputy sheriffs or equal or higher rank irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned.
(b)“Local sheriff” does not include persons employed to perform identification or communication duties other than persons in that employment on August 4, 1972, who elected within 90 days thereafter to be local safety members. A contracting agency may elect by amendment to its contract to include as “local sheriff” all persons who were employed to perform identification or communication duties on August 4, 1972, and who elect within 60 days of the effective date of the contract amendment to be local safety members. The election shall apply to the person’s past as well as future service in the employment held on the effective date but shall not apply to service following any subsequent acceptance of appointment to a position other than that held on the effective date. This subdivision shall not apply to persons employed and qualified as deputy sheriffs or equal or higher rank.
(c) Any officer or employee who is a local sheriff as defined in this section shall not be deemed to be a county peace officer, as defined in Section 20436, for any purpose under this part.
(d) This section shall not apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to any such agency unless and until the contracting agency elects to be subject to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract with the board, made as provided in Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.
(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 149, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.)