Section 20436 Of Article 4. Safety Member Classification-contracting Agencies And Schools From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 4.
20436
. (a) "County peace officer" means the sheriff and any officer
or employee of a sheriff's office of a contracting agency, except
one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk,
stenographer, machinist, mechanic, or otherwise, and whose functions
do not clearly come 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 deputy sheriffs or equal or higher rank
irrespective of the duties to which they are assigned.
(b) Any other provision in this part to the contrary
notwithstanding, "county peace officer" also includes and means any
inspector, investigator, detective, or person with a comparable
title, in any district attorney's office of a contracting agency
whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases
and who receives compensation for this service.
(c) "County peace 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 "county peace 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 may
not apply to service following any subsequent acceptance of
appointment to a position other than that held on the effective date.
This subdivision does not apply to persons employed and qualified as
deputy sheriffs or equal or higher rank.
(d) "County peace officer" does not include any officer or
employee who is a local sheriff, as defined in Section 20432 or
20432.5.