2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4.5 - Mediation and Conciliation Service › CHAPTER 2 - Succession to Functions and Responsibilities › Section 3603.

3603. (a) The Public Employment Relations Board succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Industrial Relations and exercised or carried out through the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service.
(b) All powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Director of Industrial Relations or the Department of Industrial Relations under Sections 19455 and 19604 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 89542.5 of the Education Code, Section 57031 of the Food and Agricultural Code, Sections 3502.5, 3507.1, 3507.3, 71632.5, 71636.1, 71636.3, 71637, 71802 to 71806, inclusive, and 71814 of the Government Code, Sections 1164 and 2686 of the Labor Code, and Sections 25051, 25052, 28850, 28851, 30750, 30751, 30756, 40120, 40122, 50120, 50121, 70120, 70122, 90300, 95650, 95651, 98162.5, 100301 to 100306, inclusive, 101341, 101342, 101344, 102401, 102403, 103401 to 103406, inclusive, 105142, 120502 to 120505, inclusive, and 125521 to 125526, inclusive, of the Public Utilities Code, Section 4.2 (as repealed and added by Chapter 1335 of the Regular Session of the Statutes of 1971) and Section 4.4 (as added by the Chapter 1335 of the Regular Session of the Statutes of 1971) of the Fresno Metropolitan Transit District Act of 1961, and Sections 13.90 to 13.96, inclusive, of the West Bay Rapid Transit Authority Act (as added by Chapter 104 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 1964) are hereby transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board.
(c) The regulations of the Director of Industrial Relations at Subchapter 2.2 (Sections 15800 to 15875.1, inclusive) and Subchapter 7 (Section 17300) of Chapter 8 of Division 1 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations shall remain in effect and shall be deemed to be regulations of the Public Employment Relations Board.
(d) All persons serving in the state civil service, other than temporary employees, in the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service in the Department of Industrial Relations, and engaged in the performance of functions transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board, are transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board. The status, positions, and rights of those persons shall not be affected by their transfer and shall continue to be retained by them pursuant to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2), except as to positions the duties of which are vested in a position exempt from civil service. The personnel records of all transferred employees shall be transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board.
(e) The property of the Department of Industrial Relations that is used exclusively or primarily for the functions transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board is transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board. If any doubt arises as to whether or where property is to be transferred, the Department of General Services shall determine whether or where the property is to be transferred.
(f) All unexpended balances of appropriations or other funds available for use in connection with any function or the administration of any law transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board shall be transferred to the Public Employment Relations Board. If any doubt arises as to whether or where those balances and funds are to be transferred, the Department of Finance shall determine whether or where those balances and funds are to be transferred.
(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 46, Sec. 11. (SB 1038) Effective June 27, 2012.)