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99566.2
. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 99560.1,
Section 99566, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee
who is a member of a religious body whose traditional tenets or
teachings include objections to joining or financially supporting
employee organizations shall not be required to join, maintain
membership in, or financially support any employee organization as a
condition of employment except as provided in subdivision (b).
(b) The employee may be required, in lieu of a service fee, to pay
sums equal to the service fee either to a nonreligious, nonlabor
organization, charitable fund exempt from taxation under Section 501
(c)(3) of Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code, chosen by the
employee from a list of at least three such funds, designated in the
organizational security arrangement, or if the arrangement fails to
designate funds, then to any such fund chosen by the employee. Either
the employee organization or the transit district employer may
require that proof of the payments be made on an annual basis to the
transit district employer as a condition of continued exemption from
the requirement of financial support to the recognized employee
organization. If the employee who holds conscientious objections
pursuant to this section requests the employee organization to use
the grievance procedure or arbitration procedure on the employee's
behalf, the employee organization is authorized to charge the
employee for the reasonable cost of using that procedure.