Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) Within a reasonable time before the scheduled date, the department or a designated appointing power shall announce or advertise examinations for the establishment of eligible lists. The announcement shall include the following: (1) The date and place of the examination. (2) T…

(a) (1) Every applicant for examination shall file an application with the department or a designated appointing power as directed in the examination announcement. Applications shall be accepted free of any charge to the applicant. Filed applications and all other examination mat…

(a) The department or a designated appointing power may refuse to examine, or after examination may refuse to declare as eligible, or may withhold or withdraw from an eligible list, before the appointment, anyone who meets any of the following criteria: (1) Lacks any of the requi…

The final earned rating of each person competing in any examination shall be determined by the weighted average of the earned ratings on all phases of the examination, according to the weights for each phase established by the department or a designated appointing power in advanc…

The passing mark for an examination may be other than the true percentage or average published as a part of the announcement of the examination, if deemed by the department or a designated appointing power to be justified in order to provide an adequate eligible list or to adjust…

The department or a designated appointing power may issue certificates of competence to candidates who are successful in certain phases of examinations involving a particular knowledge, ability, or skill. For the period named in such a certificate, the department or a designated …

When the employment list resulting from examination has been established, each competitor shall be notified in writing of the results of the examination. For competitors unsuccessful in an oral examination, the department or a designated appointing power shall, upon the written r…

The department or designated appointing power shall provide for the inspection of examination papers for all written test competitors.

The department or a designated appointing power may receive applications, conduct examinations, and create eligible lists on a continual basis consistent with board rules. The names of eligibles who took the same or a comparable examination on different dates may be ranked for pu…

Any applicant for examination may request reasonable accommodation for a disability or sincerely held religious belief pursuant to the Fair Employment and Housing Act or any other applicable law. The department may prescribe rules governing those requests.

Any former state employee who was dismissed from state service pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 19500) of Division 5 of this part may petition the department to be permitted to take a civil service examination in order to establish eligibility for appointment to sta…

(a) Vacancies in positions shall be filled insofar as consistent with the best interests of the state from among employees holding positions in appropriate classes, and appropriate promotional lists shall be established to facilitate this purpose, except as provided in Section 18…

Notwithstanding any other law, full-time employees of the state who are exempt from state civil service pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Article VII of the California Constitution, shall be eligible to receive three career credits, except when competing for managerial p…

The board, department, and each state agency and employee shall encourage economy and efficiency in and devotion to state service by encouraging promotional advancement of employees showing willingness and ability to perform efficiently services assigned them, and every person in…

(a) In an examination held on an open, nonpromotional basis under Section 18950, a competitor who has served at least one full year in, or who is a graduate of, the California Conservation Corps, and who attains the passing mark established for the examination, shall have three c…

Any employee who feels aggrieved at any action taken by any superior or fellow employee in discouraging or in any manner hindering or preventing him from taking any examination or any other action which he deems beneficial to himself may appeal to the board in writing. Any such a…

In any promotional examinations for positions in the California Highway Patrol, there shall be allowed to each competitor an additional credit for merit, efficiency and fitness of one-quarter of a point for each year which he has served in the grade next lower than that for which…

Examinations for those classes designated as supervisory level peace officers in the Department of Corrections and Youth Authority, with respect to those peace officers enumerated in Section 830.5 of the Penal Code, shall be job related and shall include measurable examination co…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Veteran” has the same meaning as defined in Section 18540.4. (b) “Disabled veteran” has the same meaning as defined in Section 18541. (c) “100 percent disabled veteran” means any veteran as defined in this …

Whenever any veteran, widow or widower of a veteran, or spouse of a 100 percent disabled veteran achieves a passing score on an entrance examination, he or she shall be ranked in the top rank of the resulting eligibility list. This section shall not apply to any veteran who has b…

(a) For purposes of this article, an entrance examination is any open competitive examination. (b) No veterans’ preference under this article shall be awarded to permanent civil service employees.

Any member of the Armed Forces who successfully passes any state civil service examination and whose name as a result is placed on an employment list and who within 12 months after the establishment of the employment list for which the examination was given qualifies for veterans…

Periods of service in the recognized military service shall be counted by the department and designated appointing authority as qualifying experience upon a showing by the veteran that the veteran’s service involved duties and responsibilities of the kind for which credit for exp…

(a) Request for and proof of eligibility for veterans’ preference shall be submitted by the veteran to the department or designated appointing authority conducting the employment examination. The procedures and time of filing the request shall be subject to rules promulgated by t…

Where experience is required as a minimum qualification for any civil service examination, a person, who is or has been on military leave from a state civil service or exempt position or from a position in any federal or other public agency the functions of which as they relate t…

(a) In making appointments to positions performing the duties of disabled veterans’ outreach program representatives in the disabled veterans’ outreach program or successor program of the Employment Development Department, appointments shall be made in the following order of pref…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, persons employed by the Legislature for two or more consecutive years shall be given an opportunity, upon request, to obtain civil service appointment list eligibility by taking any promotional civil service examination or c…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons retired from the United States military, honorably discharged from active military duty with a service-connected disability, or honorably discharged from active duty, shall be eligible to apply for promotional civil service exam…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, persons holding, for two or more consecutive years, nonelected exempt positions in the executive branch of government as defined in subdivisions (c), (e), (f), (g), (i), and (m) of Section 4 of Article VII of the Constitutio…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a legislative or nonelected exempt executive branch employee who is appointed to a career executive assignment pursuant to Section 18990 or 18992, shall be eligible to compete in his or her appointing power’s promotional examination…

(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) “State member” includes: (1) State miscellaneous members. (2) University members. (3) Patrol members. (4) State safety mem…

“Member classification” means either of the following: (a) Miscellaneous member classification, which includes state miscellaneous members, National Guard members, university members, local miscellaneous members, state industrial members, and school members. (b) Safety member cla…

“State miscellaneous member” includes all members employed by the state and university, except National Guard, industrial, patrol, state peace officer/firefighter, and state safety members.

“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 of this part applicable to state miscellaneous members shall apply to National Guard members.

“University member” includes all members who are employees of the university.

“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 Department of the Youth Authority or the Youthful Offender Board and employed in the state prisons or facilities of the Departmen…

“Local miscellaneous member” includes all employees of a county office of education, school district, or community college district who are included in a risk pool and all employees of a contracting agency who have by contract been included within this system, except local safety…

(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 function, respectively, whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement service, except those whose principal duties …

“State peace officer/firefighter member” means: (a) All persons in the Board of Parole Hearings, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Cannabis Control, the Department of Developmental Services, the Department of Health Care Services, the Department of Toxic Subst…

“State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes officers and employees with the following class titles: Class Code Classification 6875 Air Operations Officer I 1056 Air Operations Officer II 1053 Air Operations Officer III 6877 Air Operations Officer I (Maintenance) 6882 A…

“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 Employees’ Retirement System employed on a full-time permanent basis with the class title of Special Investigator (Class Code 855…

“State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes the employees of a California State University police department, established pursuant to Section 89560 of the Education Code, who have been designated as peace officers as defined in Section 830.2 of the Penal Code, and who …

“State peace officer/firefighter member” means all members who are full-time permanent employees represented in Corrections Unit No. 6, Protective Services and Public Safety Unit No. 7, and Firefighters Unit No. 8 and are employed in class titles that are designated as peace offi…

(a) “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes employees of the California State University who are campus fire apparatus engineers and who are members represented by Technical and Support Services Unit No. 9. (b) This section shall be operative with respect to the em…

“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 in subdivision (a) of Section 830.36 of the Penal Code. (b) Bailiffs and security coordinators of the judicial branch who …

“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, 830.3, 830.38, 830.4, and 830.5 of the Penal Code, or a firefighter whose principal duties consist of active firefighting…

“State safety member,” includes persons employed in the Department of Fish and Game in connection with its warden service, whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement service, including immediate supervision by persons employed to perform the duties performed under t…

(a) “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, whose principal duties consist of active fire suppression or supervision, including, but not limited to, members employed to perform duties now performed under the followin…

“State safety member” means all persons within the Department of Justice designated as peace officers and performing investigative duties and whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement, but excluding clerical personnel or those whose principal duties are that of tel…

(a) “State safety member” also includes state prosecutors and state public defenders. (b) For purposes of this part, “state prosecutor” means a state officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (1) He or she is employed by the Department of Justice, Office of the…