Section 45134 Of Article 1. Employment From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 25. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
45134
. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no minimum
or maximum age limits shall be established for the employment or
continuance in employment of persons as part of the classified
service.
(b) Any person possessing all of the minimum qualifications for
any employment shall be eligible for appointment to that employment,
and no rule or policy, either written or unwritten, heretofore or
hereafter adopted, shall prohibit the employment or continued
employment, solely because of the age of any person in any school
employment who is otherwise qualified.
(c) No person shall be employed in school employment while he or
she is receiving a retirement allowance under any retirement system
by reason of prior school employment, except that a person may be
hired:
(1) Pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 21220) of
Chapter 12 of Part 3 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
(2) As an aide in one of the following circumstances:
(A) An aide is needed in a class with a high pupil-teacher ratio.
(B) An aide is needed to provide one-on-one instruction in
remedial classes or for underprivileged students.
A person working as an aide pursuant to this subdivision shall not
receive service credits for purposes of the State Teachers'
Retirement System.
(d) The provisions of subdivision (c) shall be inapplicable to
persons who were employed in the classified service of any school
district as of September 18, 1959, and who are still in the employ of
the same district on the effective date of this subdivision, and the
rights of those persons shall be fixed and determined as of
September 18, 1959, and no such person shall be deprived of any right
to any retirement allowance or eligibility for any such allowance to
which he or she would have been entitled as of that date. Any such
person who, by reason of any provision of law to the contrary, has
been deprived of any right to retirement allowance or eligibility for
such an allowance, shall, upon the filing of application therefor,
be reinstated to such rights as he or she would have had had this
subdivision been in effect on September 18, 1959.
(e) This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the
merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of
Article 6 (commencing with Section 45240) of this chapter.