California Code of Regulations › Title 15 - Crime Prevention and Corrections › Division 6 - Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training › Article 1 - General › Section 6000 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following are definitions of terms as used in these
				  regulations.
(a) Acting Position is
				defined as a work assignment with duties and responsibilities outside those of
				the job classification to which the apprentice has been appointed. It is not an
				appointment to a "training and development" position. Typically, it is a
				temporary assignment for an unspecified period of time.
(b) Apprentice means California Correctional
				Peace Officer apprentice, unless otherwise specified. Correctional Peace
				Officer apprentice means a person at least 21 years of age, who is engaged in
				learning a designated trade as a Correctional Peace Officer, and who has
				entered into a written apprenticeship agreement under the provisions of the
				standards contained in these regulations and the Memorandum of Understanding
				(MOU). All persons newly appointed to rank and file Correctional Peace Officer
				classifications are apprentices, including less than full-time
				employees.
(c) Authorized Personnel
				means the In Service Training (IST) Manager and Assistant Training Manager, IST
				clerical support, the Local Apprenticeship Subcommittee (LAS), the employing
				department management and supervisory staff, the apprentice or the apprentices'
				authorized representative to review only the apprentice's own personal
				apprenticeship and training files, the Division of Apprenticeship Standards
				(DAS) consultant/personnel, Veterans Affairs personnel, the Commission on
				Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training (CPOST) committee members and
				their alternates, CPOST advisors, Departmental Apprenticeship Coordinators, and
				Compliance Review team members.
(d)
				Commission means the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and
				Training (CPOST) as defined in Penal Code Section
				13600.
(e) Employing Department means the California
				Department of Corrections (CDC) or the California Department of the Youth
				Authority (CYA).
(f) Employing
				Department Apprenticeship Coordinator means the personnel designated by CDC,
				CYA, and the California Correctional Peace Officer Association (CCPOA) to act
				as a coordinator for the operation of the Apprenticeship Program.
(g) First-Line Supervisor means an employee
				in a Correctional Peace Officer classification that supervises Correctional
				Peace Officer apprentices and journeypersons.
(h) First Watch means night shift. It
				encompasses a shift in which at least four (4) or more hours of the scheduled
				work shift fall immediately before 6:00 a.m.
(i) Journeyperson means all employees who are
				in a Correctional Peace Officer rank and file classification, who have
				successfully completed the appropriate apprenticeship program, or who were
				grandfathered as journeypersons before January 1, 1990, for that classification
				pursuant to the MOU.
(j)
				Limited/Light Duty means assignment to a work position that is consistent with
				the employee's temporary medical restrictions as determined by the treating
				physician.
(k) Local Appointing
				Authority means Warden, Superintendent, Parole Regional Administrator or
				designee.
(l) Local Apprenticeship
				Subcommittee (LAS) is a standing committee of the CPOST. Its responsibilities
				and functions are spelled out in these regulations and as further defined by
				the CPOST.
(m) Management means
				personnel designated by the CDC and the CYA to represent their
				organizations.
(n) MOU means the
				collective bargaining agreement between the state of California and the
				CCPOA.
(o) Out-of-Class Assignment
				means the same as "Acting Postion".
(p) Out-of-Class Service means periods of
				work of 15 to 120 consecutive days, which are worked outside the classification
				to which the employee is assigned.
(q) Petitioner means the party submitting an
				appeal, which can be an individual apprentice, a journeyperson, a first-line
				supervisor, a group of such employees, the local chapter of the CCPOA, the
				Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Apprenticeship Standards, or
				the local appointing authority or designee.
(r) Qualifying Month means one month credit
				granted towards the completion of the apprenticeship program for every month in
				which an apprentice forwards to the LAS his/her LAS approved DAS 103-A form
				(Apprentice Record Book, Rev. 3-89).
(s) Qualifying Pay Period means either
				full-time employment with at least 11 working days in a pay period or
				intermittent (hourly) employment with at least 160 hours worked in a pay
				period.
(t) Related and
				Supplemental Instruction means any classroom instruction, training or education
				in subjects related to the correctional peace officer trade. Such instruction
				may be given to an employee in a classroom setting provided by a department,
				community college or high school district, or by a correspondence course of
				equivalent value or other forms of self-study approved by CPOST.
(u) Second-Line Supervisor means a supervisor
				two steps/ranks higher in the direct promotional line of the
				apprentice.
(v) Second Watch means
				day shift. It encompasses those shifts in which more than four of the work
				hours fall between 6:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(w) Secured Workstation means an area in a
				correctional facility completely enclosed by any combination of metal bars,
				chain link, safety glass, concrete, or the equivalent, with a controlled
				entrance and exit, ensuring the occupants' safety.
(x) Third Watch means evening/swing shift. It
				encompasses those shifts in which the employee works four or more hours of the
				shift falling after 2:00 p.m.
(y)
				Training and Development Assignment means a formal appointment to a work
				assignment outside the scope of an employee's appointed classification, as
				defined by the State Personnel Board. It is usually for a set period of time,
				not to exceed two years.
(z) Work
				Site means the apprentice's assigned facility, which is not an
				academy.
1. New
				  division 6 (articles 1-8, sections
				  6000-6070), article 1 (sections
				  6000-6003) and section filed
				  7-14-2000; operative 8-13-2000 (Register 2000, No. 28).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 13600, Penal
					 Code. Reference: Sections
					 13600 and
					 13601, Penal
					 Code; and Sections
					 3075 and
					 3077, Labor
					 Code.