CHAPTER 1. General

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 123.

§§ 18500–18599.8 · 61 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Purpose §§ 18500–18502 · 3 sections

   • § 18500 It is the purpose of this part: (a) To facilitate the operation of Article VII of the Constitution. (b) To promote and increase economy and efficiency in the…
   • § 18501 This part and Part 2.6 shall be known as the State Civil Service Act.
   • § 18502 (a) There is hereby created in state government the Department of Human Resources. The department succeeds to and is vested with the following: (1) All of the…
2. ARTICLE 2. Definitions §§ 18520–18553 · 41 sections

   • § 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)…
   • § 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. “Former…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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. (b) The…
   • § 18526 “Employee” means a person legally holding a position in the State civil service.
   • § 18527 “Probationer” means an employee who has probationary status. “Probationary status” means the status of an employee who has been certified and appointed from an…
   • § 18528 “Permanent employee” means an employee who has permanent status. “Permanent status” means the status of an employee who is lawfully retained in his or her…
   • § 18529 “Temporary employee” means an employee holding a position under temporary appointment. “Temporary appointment” means an appointment made in the absence of any…
   • § 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,…
   • § 18531 “Emergency employee” means an employee holding a position under emergency appointment. “Emergency appointment” means an appointment made for a period not to…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 18533 (a) “Subdivisional promotional list” means a list of persons eligible for certification for a specific class resulting from a promotional examination for a…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 18538 “Part” means this part, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 19800), and Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) and those portions of Part 1 (commencing with…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 18541 “Disabled veteran” means any veteran as defined in Section 18540.4 who is currently declared by the United States Veterans Administration to be 10 percent or…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 18545 “Duration examination” means an open competitive examination, or promotional examination, held for the express purpose of providing a list of persons available…
   • § 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…
   • § 18547 “Career executive assignment” means an appointment to a high administrative and policy influencing position within the state civil service in which the…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 18553 “Core competencies” mean the particular education, experience, knowledge, and abilities that each applicant is required to have in order to be considered…
3. ARTICLE 3. General Provisions §§ 18570–18577 · 8 sections

   • § 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…
   • § 18573 Each appointing power shall provide access to records and prepare reports as required by the board or the department. Information given to the board and the…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
4. ARTICLE 4. Scope §§ 18590–18599.8 · 9 sections

   • § 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…
   • § 18591 The “state civil service” includes state officers and employees, appointed or employed by or under the Adult Authority or the Director of Corrections, and who…
   • § 18592 The “state civil service” shall include all fire protection personnel employed at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Los Alamitos.
   • § 18596 The “state civil service” shall include all personnel appointed or employed in the Bureau of Pupil Personnel Services in the Division of Instruction of the…
   • § 18596.5 The “state civil service” shall include all vocational education personnel appointed or employed in the State Department of Education, who are now excluded…
   • § 18597 The “state civil service” shall include all teachers who have been employed for a period of six months at the Orientation Center for the Blind who are now…
   • § 18599 The “state civil service” shall include all personnel appointed or employed in the Bureau of National Defense Education Act Administration of the Department of…
   • § 18599.5 (a) The “state civil service” does not include a California Science and Technology Policy Fellow provided by the California Council on Science and Technology…
   • § 18599.8 (a) The “state civil service” does not include a policy fellow provided by an association. (b) For purposes of this section, “association” means any of the…