California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

• Section 18520.
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this part and the rules adopted hereunder.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch.
• Section 18521.
  “Board” means the agency created by Section 2 of Article VII of the California Constitution and includes the “State Personnel Board” provided in Section 2(a)...
• Section 18521.5.
  “Department” means the Department of Human Resources.(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 360, Sec. 11. (SB 1309) Effective January 1, 2013.)
• Section 18522.
  “Position” means any office or employment in the “state civil service” as the phrase is defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution.“Former...
• Section 18523.
  “Class” means a group of positions sufficiently similar with respect to duties and responsibilities that the same title may reasonably and fairly be used to...
• Section 18524.
  “Appointing authority” or “appointing power” means a person or group having authority to make appointments to positions in the state civil service.(Amended by Stats. 2012,...
• Section 18525.
  “Appointment” means the offer to and acceptance by a person of a position in the State civil service in accordance with this part.(Added by Stats....
• Section 18525.1.
  “Promotion” means the appointment of an employee to a position in a different class with a higher salary range, unless the appointment is by transfer,...
• Section 18525.2.
  “Demotion” means the appointment of an employee to a position in a different class with a lower salary range, as provided by Section 19253 if...
• Section 18525.3.
  “Transfer” means both of the following:(a) The appointment of an employee to another position in the same class but under another appointing power.(b) The appointment of an...
• Section 18526.
  “Employee” means a person legally holding a position in the State civil service.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 123.)
• Section 18527.
  “Probationer” means an employee who has probationary status. “Probationary status” means the status of an employee who has been certified and appointed from an employment...
• Section 18528.
  “Permanent employee” means an employee who has permanent status. “Permanent status” means the status of an employee who is lawfully retained in his position after...
• Section 18529.
  “Temporary employee” means an employee holding a position under temporary appointment. “Temporary appointment” means an appointment made in the absence of any appropriate employment list...
• Section 18530.
  “Limited term employee” means an employee whose appointment as a result of reinstatement or certification from an employment list shall not exceed two years, as...
• Section 18531.
  “Emergency employee” means an employee holding a position under emergency appointment. “Emergency appointment” means an appointment made for a period not to exceed 60 working...
• Section 18532.
  “Eligible list” means a list of persons who have been examined in an open competitive examination and are eligible for certification for a specific class.“Limited...
• Section 18532.1.
  “Preferred limited term list” means a list of persons who have served under limited-term appointment and who, in accordance with rule, are granted eligibility for...
• Section 18532.2.
  “Departmental eligible list” means a list of persons who have been examined in an open competitive examination and who are eligible for certification for a...
• Section 18533.
  (a) “Subdivisional promotional list” means a list of persons eligible for certification for a specific class resulting from a promotional examination for a particular subdivision of...
• Section 18534.
  “General reemployment list” means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in any State agency, irrespective of the State agency...
• Section 18535.
  “Departmental reemployment list” means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in a particular State agency.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch.
• Section 18536.
  “Subdivisional reemployment list” means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in a particular subdivision of a State agency.(Added by...
• Section 18537.
  “Employment list” means preferred limited-term list, limited-term list, eligible list, departmental eligible list, subdivisional promotional list, departmental promotional list, multidepartmental promotional list, servicewide promotional list,...
• Section 18538.
  “Part” means this part, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 19800), and Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) and those portions of Part 1 (commencing with...
• Section 18540.
  “Armed forces” means the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 427, Sec. 11. (AB 1062) Effective...
• Section 18540.1.
  “National emergency” as used in this part means any period in which the United States is at war prior to the declaration by the Governor...
• Section 18540.2.
  “State military emergency,” as used in this part, means an emergency declared and terminable by the Governor by proclamation during, but not limited to, such...
• Section 18540.3.
  “Recognized military service” means full-time service by a person in the armed forces during the national emergency or a state military emergency.(Added by Stats. 1949,...
• Section 18540.4.
  “Veteran” means: Any person who has served full time in the armed forces in time of national emergency or state military emergency or during any...
• Section 18541.
  “Disabled veteran” means any veteran as defined in Section 18540.4 who is currently declared by the United States Veterans Administration to be 10 percent or...
• Section 18542.
  “Rehabilitation” as used within this part shall mean a restoration of veterans declared to be 10 per cent or more disabled, either physically or mentally.(Added...
• Section 18543.
  “Military leave” means the leave of absence status of a permanent employee or probationer who leaves a position to serve in the armed forces of...
• Section 18544.
  “Duration employment” means an employment during time of war or during an emergency in connection with the national defense, which employment is subject to termination...
• Section 18545.
  “Duration examination” means an open competitive examination, or promotional examination, held for the express purpose of providing a list of persons available for duration employment....
• Section 18546.
  “Career executive” means an employee appointed from an employment list established for the express purpose of providing a list of persons who are eligible for...
• Section 18547.
  “Career executive assignment” means an appointment to a high administrative and policy influencing position within the state civil service in which the incumbent’s primary responsibility...
• Section 18550.
  A “full-time” position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work the amount of time required for the employee...
• Section 18551.
  A “part-time” position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work a specific fraction of the full-time work schedule.(Added...
• Section 18552.
  An “intermittent” position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work periodically or for a fluctuating portion of the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018