California Government Code ARTICLE 4 - Safety Member Classification-Contracting Agencies and Schools

• Section 20420.
  “Local safety member” includes all local police officers, local sheriffs, firefighters, safety officers, county peace officers, and school safety members, employed by a contracting agency...
• Section 20421.
  “Local safety member” also includes all employees of a city who have by contract been included within this system, and whose principal duties consist of...
• Section 20422.
  “Local safety member” also includes all employees of a public agency whose principal duties consist of rendering prehospital emergency medical care to ill or injured...
• Section 20423.
  “Local safety member” also includes any harbor or port police officer, employed by a contracting agency, who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision...
• Section 20423.3.
  (a) “Local safety member” also includes any airport patrol officer, airport law enforcement officer, or airport police officer employed by a contracting agency who is a...
• Section 20423.5.
  “Local safety member” also includes any park ranger employed by a contracting agency who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision (b) of Section...
• Section 20423.6.
  (a) “Local safety member” also includes local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators.(b) For purposes of this part, “local prosecutor” means any one of...
• Section 20424.
  “Local safety officer” means any officer or employee of a public safety department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of...
• Section 20425.
  “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...
• Section 20426.
  “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency that is a city, employed to perform communication...
• Section 20427.
  “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a juvenile bureau of a contracting agency whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement...
• Section 20428.
  “Local police officer” shall also include any officer or employee of a contracting agency that is a city and county, in any employment in which...
• Section 20429.
  “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a contracting agency other than a city or a county who is a peace officer...
• Section 20430.
  “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district that has established a police department pursuant...
• Section 20431.
  “Local police officer” also includes any employee of a contracting agency that is a city, who is employed in a jail or a detention or...
• Section 20432.
  (a) “Local sheriff” means any officer or employee of a sheriff’s office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone...
• Section 20432.5.
  (a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed marshal of Shasta County or of a judicial district of Shasta County. “Local sheriff” also means a regularly...
• Section 20432.6.
  (a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed district attorney investigator of Solano County whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases, if the...
• Section 20433.
  “Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone...
• Section 20434.
  “Local firefighter” also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a...
• Section 20434.5.
  “Local firefighter” also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a...
• Section 20435.
  “Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a contracting agency performing a fire training function for a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties...
• Section 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...
• Section 20437.
  (a) “County peace officer” shall also include the constable and each regularly employed deputy constable and the marshal and each regularly employed deputy marshal who serves...
• Section 20438.
  “County peace officer” shall also include probation officers, deputy and assistant probation officers, and persons employed in a juvenile hall or home and having as...
• Section 20439.
  “County peace officer” shall also include employees of the sheriff employed in a county jail, detention or correctional facility and having as their primary duty...
• Section 20440.
  “County peace officer” shall also include employees of the sheriff employed to attend sessions of the superior or former municipal courts and preserve order in...
• Section 20441.
  “County peace officer” shall also include persons employed by a county parks and recreation department whose primary responsibility is maintaining the peace and whose duties...
• Section 20442.
  Persons employed in positions that are found to come within the definition of local safety member as the result of administrative review by the board...
• Section 20443.
  A member who is employed in a position that is reclassified from local miscellaneous to local safety and is made subject to a safety service...
• Section 20444.
  “School safety member” includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district which has established a police department pursuant to...
• Section 20445.
  A member employed with a school district or community college district, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 20057, who is in a position that...

Last modified: October 22, 2018