CHAPTER 4. Membership Classifications

Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2.

§§ 20370–20445 · 71 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 20370–20371 · 2 sections

   • § 20370 (a) “Member” means an employee who has qualified for membership in this system and on whose behalf an employer has become obligated to pay contributions. (b)…
   • § 20371 “Member classification” means either of the following: (a) Miscellaneous member classification, which includes state miscellaneous members, National Guard…
2. ARTICLE 2. Miscellaneous Member Classification §§ 20380–20383 · 5 sections

   • § 20380 “State miscellaneous member” includes all members employed by the state and university, except National Guard, industrial, patrol, state peace…
   • § 20380.5 “National Guard member” means a person who elects to become a member of this system as described in Section 20326. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions…
   • § 20381 “University member” includes all members who are employees of the university.
   • § 20382 “State industrial member” includes all state employees appointed by the Governor or by the Director of Corrections or the Board of Prison Terms or the…
   • § 20383 “Local miscellaneous member” includes all employees of a county office of education, school district, or community college district who are included in a risk…
3. ARTICLE 3. Safety Member Classification—State §§ 20390–20416 · 32 sections

   • § 20390 (a) “Patrol member” includes all members employed in the Department of the California Highway Patrol or by a county in connection with its highway patrol…
   • § 20391 “State peace officer/firefighter member” means: (a) All persons in the Board of Parole Hearings, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Cannabis…
   • § 20392 “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes officers and employees with the following class titles: Class Code Classification 6875 Air Operations…
   • § 20393 “State peace officer/firefighter member” also means: (a) All persons in the office of the Secretary of State, office of the Controller, and the Public…
   • § 20394 “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes the employees of a California State University police department, established pursuant to Section 89560…
   • § 20395 “State peace officer/firefighter member” means all members who are full-time permanent employees represented in Corrections Unit No. 6, Protective Services and…
   • § 20396 (a) “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes employees of the California State University who are campus fire apparatus engineers and who are…
   • § 20397 “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes: (a) The Sergeants-at-Arms of each house of the Legislature who have been designated as peace officers…
   • § 20398 “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes: (a) (1) State officers and employees designated as peace officers as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2,…
   • § 20399 “State safety member,” includes persons employed in the Department of Fish and Game in connection with its warden service, whose principal duties consist of…
   • § 20400 (a) “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, whose principal duties consist of active fire…
   • § 20401 “State safety member” means all persons within the Department of Justice designated as peace officers and performing investigative duties and whose principal…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 20403 “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees in (a) the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employed to perform the duties now…
   • § 20404 Notwithstanding Section 20401 “state safety member” shall include persons employed as members of a state college police department who meet the minimum…
   • § 20405 (a) “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the following classifications:…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 20406 “State safety member” also includes persons employed by the state to perform lifeguard services and whose principal duties consist of active protection,…
   • § 20407 “State safety member” also includes officers and employees with the State Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 20409 (a) “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees of the following departments with the following class titles: Class Code Classification…
   • § 20410 “State safety member” also includes all persons in the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Board of Parole Hearings, the Department of Consumer…
   • § 20411 “State safety member” also includes members employed in the positions with the classification of Vocational Instructor (Barber Shop Practices) (Correctional…
   • § 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…
   • § 20413 “State safety member” shall also include persons employed under the title of “campus firefighter” who performed active firefighting duties for the state on…
   • § 20414 “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: State Park Ranger Trainee,…
   • § 20415 “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: Manager I, State Park; Manager…
   • § 20416 “State safety member” includes all persons specified in this article by employer, classification, or duties performed, except persons in those classes defined…
4. ARTICLE 4. Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools §§ 20420–20445 · 32 sections

   • § 20420 “Local safety member” includes all local police officers, local sheriffs, firefighters, safety officers, county peace officers, and school safety members,…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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)…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 20423.6 (a) “Local safety member” also includes local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators. (b) For purposes of this part,…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 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…
   • § 20432.5 (a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed marshal of Shasta County or of a judicial district of Shasta County. “Local sheriff” also means a regularly…
   • § 20432.6 (a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed district attorney investigator of Solano County whose principal duties are to investigate crime and…
   • § 20433 “Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone…
   • § 20434 “Local firefighter” also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone…
   • § 20434.5 “Local firefighter” also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone…
   • § 20435 “Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a contracting agency performing a fire training function for a contracting agency, except one whose…
   • § 20436 (a) “County peace officer” means the sheriff and any officer or employee of a sheriff’s office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are…
   • § 20437 (a) “County peace officer” shall also include the constable and each regularly employed deputy constable and the marshal and each regularly employed deputy…
   • § 20438 “County peace officer” shall also include probation officers, deputy and assistant probation officers, and persons employed in a juvenile hall or home and…
   • § 20439 “County peace officer” shall also include employees of the sheriff employed in a county jail, detention or correctional facility and having as their primary…
   • § 20440 “County peace officer” shall also include employees of the sheriff employed to attend sessions of the superior or former municipal courts and preserve order in…
   • § 20441 “County peace officer” shall also include persons employed by a county parks and recreation department whose primary responsibility is maintaining the peace…
   • § 20442 Persons employed in positions that are found to come within the definition of local safety member as the result of administrative review by the board or court…
   • § 20443 A member who is employed in a position that is reclassified from local miscellaneous to local safety and is made subject to a safety service retirement…
   • § 20444 “School safety member” includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district that has established a police department pursuant…
   • § 20445 A member employed with a school district or community college district, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 20057, who is in a position that qualifies as…