Section 669.1 Of Article 4. Presumptions Affecting The Burden Of Proof From California Evidence Code >> Division 5. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 4.
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. A rule, policy, manual, or guideline of state or local
government setting forth standards of conduct or guidelines for its
employees in the conduct of their public employment shall not be
considered a statute, ordinance, or regulation of that public entity
within the meaning of Section 669, unless the rule, manual, policy,
or guideline has been formally adopted as a statute, as an ordinance
of a local governmental entity in this state empowered to adopt
ordinances, or as a regulation by an agency of the state pursuant to
the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), or
by an agency of the United States government pursuant to the federal
Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
5001) of Title 5 of the United States Code). This section affects
only the presumption set forth in Section 669, and is not otherwise
intended to affect the admissibility or inadmissibility of the rule,
policy, manual, or guideline under other provisions of law.