Article 2. Officers And Employees of California Health And Safety Code >> Division 26. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 2.

All county officers and employees shall be ex officio officers and employees, respectively, of the county district in the county by which they are employed. Except as otherwise provided in this division, they shall perform, without additional compensation, for the county district such duties as they perform for the county.

In fixing compensation to be paid to a person subject to the civil service provisions of this article, the county district board shall provide a salary or wage equal to the salary or wage paid to a county employee for the same quality of service. This section shall be operative only in a county which is operating under a freeholders' charter which requires that, in the fixing of salaries or wages for persons employed by the county subject to the civil service system of the county, the board of supervisors shall provide a salary or wage at least equal to the prevailing salary or wage for the same quality of service rendered by private persons under similar employment in case such prevailing salary or wage can be ascertained.

All officers and employees of a county district are entitled to the benefits of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 31450), Part 3, Division 4, Title 3 of the Government Code) to the same extent as employees of the county. A county district is a district as defined in Section 31468 of the Government Code.

If any person is employed by a county district after certification without examination by the civil service commission or similar body because of his employment in a position of similar duties by the county or by a city within the county district, the time such person was employed in such county or city position shall be considered as time such person was employed by the county district in determining his retirement benefits and salary.

In any county having a system of civil service, the county district board shall, nevertheless, appoint the members of the county district hearing board and the air pollution control officer, and the air pollution control officer shall appoint all other officers and employees of the county district pursuant to that system, except as provided in Section 40126.

Any person entitled to participate in promotional examinations for positions in the county classified civil service shall similarly be entitled to participate in promotional examinations for positions in the classified civil service of the county district, pursuant to the county civil service commission rules in effect at the time, and to be certified for such county positions by the county civil service commission, or other body performing the functions thereof, and to be appointed to such county district positions.

If the civil service commission, or body performing the functions thereof, in the county finds that any person has been employed by the county, or by any city within a county district, in a position the duties of which, and the qualifications for which, are substantially the same as, or are greater than and include qualifications which are substantially the same as, those of any position in the county district, the civil service commission or such other body, at the request of the air pollution control officer, may certify, without examination, such person as eligible to hold such county district position.