Section 20425 Of Article 4. Safety Member Classification-contracting Agencies And Schools From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 4.
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. "Local police officer" means any officer or employee of a
police department of a contracting agency which is a city, except one
whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk,
stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise and whose functions
do not clearly fall within the scope of active law enforcement
service even though the employee is subject to occasional call, or is
occasionally called upon, to perform duties within the scope of
active law enforcement service, but not excepting persons employed
and qualifying as patrolmen or equal or higher rank irrespective of
the duties to which they are assigned.
"Local police officer" does not include persons employed to
perform identification or communication duties, other than persons in
that employment on August 4, 1972, who elected within 90 days
thereafter to be local safety members. A contracting agency may elect
by amendment to its contract to include as "local police officer"
all persons who were employed to perform identification or
communication duties on August 4, 1972, and who elect within 60 days
of the effective date of the contract amendment to be local safety
members. The election shall apply to the person's past as well as
future service in the employment held on the effective date but shall
not apply to service following any subsequent acceptance of
appointment to a position other than that held on the effective date.
This paragraph shall not apply to persons employed and qualified as
patrol officers or equal or higher rank.