Chapter 10.1. Local Agency Executives of California Government Code >> Division 4. >> Title 1. >> Chapter 10.1.
As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Compensation" means annual salary, stipend, or bonus, paid by
a local agency employer to a local agency executive.
(b) "Cost-of-living" means the California Consumer Price Index for
Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers as calculated by the
Department of Industrial Relations.
(c) "Local agency" means a county, city, whether general law or
chartered, city and county, town, school district, municipal
corporation, district, political subdivision, or any board,
commission, or agency thereof, or other local public agency.
(d) "Local agency executive" means any person employed by a local
agency who is not subject to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Chapter 10
(commencing with Section 3500)), Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
45100) of Part 25 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code, or
Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 88000) of Part 51 of Division 7 of
Title 3 of the Education Code, and who meets any of the following
requirements:
(1) The person is the chief executive officer, a deputy chief
executive officer, or an assistant chief executive officer of the
local agency.
(2) The person is the head of a department of a local agency.
(3) The person's position within the local agency is held by an
employment contract between the local agency and that person.
On or after January 1, 2012, any contract executed or
renewed between a local agency and a local agency executive shall not
provide for the following:
(a) An automatic renewal of a contract that provides for an
automatic increase in the level of compensation that exceeds a
cost-of-living adjustment.
(b) A maximum cash settlement that exceeds the amounts determined
pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 53260) of Chapter 2
of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5.