ARTICLE 4. Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools [20420. - 20445.]

Cal. Government Code - GOV 4.

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Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20420. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20421. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20422. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20423. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20423.3. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20423.5. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20423.6. Section 20423.6.

(a) “Local safety member” also includes local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators. (b) For purposes of this part, “local prosecutor” means any one of the following: (1) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the district attorney. (B) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was district attorney, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy district attorney, assistant district attorney, chief assistant district attorney, senior assistant district attorney, or any other similar classification or title. (C) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date this section becomes applicable to the member’s contracting agency as provided in subdivision (g). (2) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (A) He or she was employed in the office of a district attorney prior to the date the local child support agency transitioned from the district attorney to a new county department, as specified in Section 17304 of the Family Code. (B) His or her job classification was district attorney, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy district attorney, assistant district attorney, chief assistant district attorney, senior assistant district attorney, or any other similar classification or title. (C) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was an attorney in a local child support agency, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 17000 of the Family Code, with no break in service between employment by a district attorney and the local child support agency. (D) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date this section becomes applicable to the member’s contracting agency as provided in subdivision (g). (3) A city officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the city attorney. (B) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was primarily engaged in the active enforcement of criminal laws within any court operating in a county. (C) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was city attorney, deputy city attorney, chief deputy city attorney, assistant city attorney, chief assistant city attorney, or any other similar classification or title. (D) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date this section becomes applicable to the member’s contracting agency as provided in subdivision (g). (c) For purposes of this part, “local public defender” means a city or county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (1) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the public defender, the alternate public defender, or any similar office title. (2) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was public defender, deputy public defender, chief deputy public defender, senior deputy public defender, assistant public defender, chief assistant public defender, senior assistant public defender, or any other similar classification or title. (3) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date this section becomes applicable to the member’s contracting agency as provided in subdivision (g). (d) For purposes of this part, “local public defender investigator” means a city or county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (1) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the public defender, the alternate public defender, or any other similar office title. (2) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was inspector, investigator, detective, or any other similar classification or title. (3) His or her principal duties are or, on or after January 1, 2002, were to investigate crime and criminal cases. (4) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date this section becomes applicable to the member’s contracting agency as provided in subdivision (g). (e) Notwithstanding Section 20890, past local miscellaneous service performed by a local prosecutor, local public defender, or local public defender investigator who becomes a local safety member pursuant to this section shall be converted to local safety service if the past service was rendered in a position that has subsequently been reclassified as a safety position pursuant to this section. For local prosecutors described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), service in the office of a district attorney and a local child support agency shall be considered service for the district attorney for the purposes of this section. Any unfunded liability resulting from this section shall be paid by the employer. (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or any provision of the contracting agency’s contract with the board, local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators shall be subject to the benefit formula contained in Section 21362, 21363, or 21363.1, or any other benefit formula applicable to local safety members that does not provide benefits greater than those benefits provided under Section 21363.1, as designated in the contract amendment or express contract provision described in subdivision (g). (g) This section shall not apply to any officers and employees of a contracting agency or to the agency unless and until the contracting agency elects to be subject to 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. If a contracting agency elects to be subject to this section, the contracting agency shall include all local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators described in this section. (h) This section does not apply to any officer or employee of a contracting agency who dies prior to the date the contracting agency elects to be subject to this section.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20424. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20425. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20426. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20427. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20428. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20429. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20430. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20431. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20432. Section 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20432.5. Section 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 employed deputy marshal of Shasta County or of a judicial district of Shasta County, or a district attorney investigator of Shasta or Butte County whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases, if the deputy marshal or district attorney investigator is a member of the deputy sheriffs’ bargaining unit in the county or the judicial district. (b) An officer or employee who is a local sheriff as defined in this section is not a county peace officer as defined in Section 20436 or 20437. (c) This section does not apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to the agency, unless and until the contracting agency elects to be subject to 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. (d) Within 90 days of notice to the county that a risk pool has been established pursuant to Section 20225.5, which makes available the same service retirement formula provided to local sheriff members in the county, the members included in the local sheriff member classification pursuant to this section shall be included in one of the available risk pools.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20432.6. Section 20432.6.

(a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed district attorney investigator of Solano County whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases, if the district attorney investigator is a member of the deputy sheriffs’ bargaining unit in the county or the judicial district. (b) An officer or employee who is a local sheriff as defined in this section is not a county peace officer as defined in Section 20436 or 20437. (c) This section does not apply to the employees of any contracting agency or to the agency, unless the contracting agency elects to be subject to 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20433. Section 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 operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise and whose functions do not clearly fall within the scope of active firefighting, or active firefighting and prevention service, active firefighting and fire training, active firefighting and hazardous materials, active firefighting and fire or arson investigation, or active firefighting and emergency medical services, even though that employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active firefighting, or active firefighting and prevention service, active firefighting and fire training, active firefighting and hazardous materials, active firefighting and fire or arson investigation, or active firefighting and emergency medical services, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as firefighters or equal or higher rank, irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20434. Section 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 operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise and whose functions do not clearly fall within the scope of active firefighting, fire prevention, fire training, hazardous materials, emergency medical services, or fire or arson investigation service, even though that employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active firefighting, fire prevention, fire training, hazardous materials, emergency medical services, or fire or arson investigation service, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as firefighters or equal or higher rank, irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned. This section shall not apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to any 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20434.5. Section 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 operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise, and whose functions do not clearly fall within the scope of hazardous materials services, even though that employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of hazardous materials services, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as firefighters or equal or higher rank, irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned. This section shall not apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to any contracting agency unless and until the contracting 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20435. Section 20435.

“Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a contracting agency performing a fire training function for 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 firefighting, fire prevention, fire training, or fire investigation service even though that employee is subject to occasional call, or is occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of active firefighting, fire prevention, fire training, or fire investigation service, but not excepting persons employed and qualifying as firefighters or equal or higher rank, irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned. This section shall not apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to any 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20436. Section 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 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) Any other provision in this part to the contrary notwithstanding, “county peace officer” also includes and means any inspector, investigator, detective, or person with a comparable title, in any district attorney’s office of a contracting agency whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases and who receives compensation for this service. (c) “County peace 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 “county peace 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 may not apply to service following any subsequent acceptance of appointment to a position other than that held on the effective date. This subdivision does not apply to persons employed and qualified as deputy sheriffs or equal or higher rank. (d) “County peace officer” does not include any officer or employee who is a local sheriff, as defined in Section 20432 or 20432.5.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20437. Section 20437.

(a) “County peace officer” shall also include the constable and each regularly employed deputy constable and the marshal and each regularly employed deputy marshal who serves the superior court. He or she shall receive credit for service as a peace officer for any time he or she served as constable or deputy constable of a township or justice court or marshal or deputy marshal of a municipal court in the same county. (b) The provisions of this section do not apply to the employees of a contracting agency nor to the agency, unless and until the contracting agency elects to be subject to 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. (c) “County peace officer” does not include any officer or employee who is a local sheriff, as defined in Section 20432.5.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20438. Section 20438.

“County peace officer” shall also include probation officers, deputy and assistant probation officers, and persons employed in a juvenile hall or home and having as their primary duty and responsibility the counseling, supervision and custody of a group of youths assigned or committed to the hall or home. It shall also include persons employed as peace officers pursuant to Section 830.5 of the Penal Code, regardless of the administrative title of the position. It shall not include persons employed as teachers, instructors, psychologists, or to provide food, maintenance, health or other supporting services even though responsibility for custody and control of youths 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 amendment to its contract with the board, made as provided in Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20439. Section 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 duty and responsibility the supervision and custody of persons committed to the jail or facility, whether or not these employees are deputized. It shall not include persons employed as clerks, typists, teachers, instructors, 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 or the employees are deputized. 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 as provided in Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20440. Section 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 the courtrooms, to guard and maintain the security of prisoners during court appearances, or to summon jurors and take responsibility for them while they are deliberating or absent from the courtroom. It shall not include persons employed as clerks, typists, teachers, instructors or psychologists. 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 as provided in Section 20474 or by express provision in its contract with the board.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20441. Section 20441.

“County peace officer” shall also include persons employed by a county parks and recreation department whose primary responsibility is maintaining the peace and whose duties include law enforcement, emergency medical care first response, or fire suppression and prevention in the Park Ranger class series. This section shall not apply to the employees of any contracting agency nor to any 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.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20442. Section 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 action and who were previously miscellaneous members may elect to remain local miscellaneous members by filing written notice of their intent with the board no later than 90 days after the date of notice to the member of their right to make an election. This section shall not apply to persons employed by Santa Clara County.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20443. Section 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 benefit, other than that provided in Section 21362, 21362.2, or 21363.1, may make an irrevocable election in writing to remain subject to the miscellaneous service retirement benefit by filing a notice of that election with the board within 90 days after notification by the board.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20444. Section 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 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 a school district or a community college district that, pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 20057, entered into a contract with the board on or after January 1, 1990.

Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20445. Section 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 a school safety member and made subject to a safety service retirement benefit other than that provided in Section 21362, 21362.2, or 21363.1 may make an irrevocable election in writing to remain subject to the miscellaneous service retirement benefit by filing a notice of that election with the board within 90 days after notification by the board.

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