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SECTIONS 50080-50089

GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 50080-50089
50080. When the legislative body of a local agency orders an officer or employee to attend a special training school he may be paid from the treasury his traveling and other actual and necessary expenses incident to attendance at the school. 50081. (a) To the extent that funds have been made available to a local agency pursuant to Section 50082, the legislative body of a local agency shall furnish each newly hired police officer and deputy sheriff employed full time by the local agency with a service revolver or other suitable pistol, holster, belt and ammunition, a nightstick, handcuffs, raincoats, and rainboots. (b) The following items are recommended to be provided by local agencies but are not reimbursable pursuant to Section 50082: (1) Offduty holster. (2) Whistle. (3) Flashlight, flashlight batteries, and flashlight bulb. (4) Chemical Mace and chemical Mace holder. (5) Utility jacket. (6) Protective vest. (c) Issued equipment shall remain the property of the local agency and shall be returned upon request of the local agency. However, notwithstanding any other law, and as long as the item is not needed as evidence in a pending criminal or civil action or investigation, any local agency shall donate the personal effects, including pistols, revolvers, or other firearms capable of being concealed upon the person that have been rendered inoperable and shooting medals, of any police officer or deputy sheriff employed by the agency who is killed in the line of duty, to the family of the officer upon the request of the family. The officer's protective vest, ammunition, and chemical Mace shall not be made available to the family and shall remain the property of the local agency. (d) Any requirement of a basic firearms safety certificate for persons who anticipate the transfer of a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person shall not apply to a person to whom an inoperable pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person is donated pursuant to this section. 50081.1. The legislative body of a local agency may furnish police officers and deputy sheriffs assigned to solo motorcycle duty with the following safety equipment: (a) Motorcycle boots and riding breeches. (b) Leather motorcycle jacket and leather gloves. (c) Plastic safety helmet. (d) Suitable eye protective glasses for day duty and suitable eye protective glasses for night duty. Such equipment shall remain the property of the local agency and shall be returned upon request of the local agency. 50081.2. The legislative body of a local agency may furnish police officers and deputy sheriffs assigned to helicopter duty with the following safety equipment: (a) Fireproof coveralls or other suitable fireproof uniforms, fireproof underwear, and fireproof stockings. (b) Flight boots. (c) Suitable plastic aviation-type safety helmet. Such equipment shall remain the property of the local agency and shall be returned upon request of the local agency. 50082. The Legislature shall make available to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training in the Department of Justice for allocation to local agencies, funds to be used to provide the equipment required to be furnished by Section 50081. The Legislature shall, in addition, provide sufficient funds to the commission to cover the cost of administering the provisions of this section. The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section including rules governing the manner of application for allocation of funds. 50083. No local agency or district shall require that its employees be residents of such local agency or district. 50084. Each local agency's hiring practices and promotional practices shall conform to the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. 50084.5. (a) (1) A local official, whether elected or appointed, shall not make available to an immediate family member a public vehicle owned or operated by, or a credit card issued by, the local agency that the local official represents except in the case of medical emergency. (2) For purposes of this section, "immediate family member" means a spouse, child, in-law, parent, or sibling of the local official. (b) This section shall not apply to a local official if the legislative body of the local agency that the local official represents has adopted an ordinance, resolution, or other measure that prohibits the conduct described in subdivision (a). 50085. No local agency shall, as a part of its hiring practices or promotional practices, employ any educational prerequisites or testing or evaluation methods which are not job-related unless there is no adverse effect. 50085.5. (a) Every local agency shall provide to the Fair Employment and Housing Commission a copy of any affirmative action plan and subsequent amendments to such plan adopted by the local agency. (b) Every local agency which is required by federal law, rule or regulation to submit an annual statistical survey of the employment of the agency to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shall annually, commencing with January 1, 1975, submit a copy of such survey to the Fair Employment and Housing Commission. (c) Such reports and information shall constitute public records. 50086. No person who is summoned by a county sheriff, city police department, fire department, park ranger, or other local agency to voluntarily assist in a search or rescue operation, who possesses first aid training equivalent to the Red Cross advanced first aid and emergency care training standards, and who in good faith renders emergency services to a victim prior to or during the evacuation or extrication of the victim, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person in rendering such emergency services. For the purposes of this section, "emergency services" includes, but is not limited to, first aid and medical services, rescue procedures, and transportation or other related activities necessary to insure the safety of the victim who is the object of the search or rescue operation. 50087. Every city, county, or city and county which has at least 5,000 residents or in which 5 percent of the population is of Filipino ancestry or ethnic origin, according to the last federal census, and which conducts any survey as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of its employees, or which maintains any statistical tabulation of minority group employees, shall categorize employees whose ancestry or ethnic origin is Filipino as Filipinos in such survey or tabulation. 50088. (a) As used in this section: (1) "Civil service system," as applied to a county or city or county, means the approved local merit system (ALMS). (2) "Veteran" has the same meaning as in Section 18973. (3) "Veterans service office" means an office established pursuant to Section 970 of the Military and Veterans Code. (b) When any city, county, or city and county, general law or chartered, has established a civil service system and entrance examination for the selection of appointive officers and employees, the board of supervisors or city council, by January 1, 2002, shall either implement a veterans' preference system giving preference to a veteran over other identically qualified applicants, or shall adopt a resolution identifying reasons that it does not implement a veterans' preference system. (c) Nothing in this act shall be construed to require a city, county, or city and county, to implement a veterans' preference system. However, it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section that cities, counties, and cities and counties, to the extent possible, further the public policy embodied in Section 6 of Article VII of the California Constitution to promote veterans' preference. (d) In enacting this section, the Legislature finds and declares that veterans' preference in civil service examinations is a matter of statewide concern. (e) It is the intent of the Legislature that a board of supervisors or city council may seek the voluntary assistance of a veterans service office serving that area in implementing a veterans' preference system. 50089. (a) Any employee organization primarily comprised of peace officers, as described by Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, that is a chapter of, or affiliated directly or indirectly in any manner with, a general nonprofit corporation formed for the specific and primary purpose to act as an employee organization for peace officers in this state that directly or indirectly represents less than 7,000 retired or active peace officers, that has not filed with the Secretary of State an agent of the employee organization who has been designated for purposes of service of process as described in Section 1701, 6410, 8210, 9670, 12610, 18200, or 25550 of the Corporations Code by the effective date of this section, shall not be qualified to be the exclusive or majority bargaining agent, as described in subdivision (a) of Section 3502.5, until January 1, 2007. (b) Any general nonprofit corporation formed for the specific and primary purpose to act as a recognized employee organization, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 3501, for peace officers in this state that directly or indirectly represents less than 7,000 retired or active peace officers, that has any affiliate, chapter, or member that has failed to file with the Secretary of State an agent who has been designated for purposes of service of process by the effective date of this section, shall be prohibited from establishing or recognizing any member, affiliate, or chapter that was not a bona fide member, affiliate, or chapter of the nonprofit corporation as of January 1, 2003, until January 1, 2007. (c) This section shall not apply to any national organization that directly or indirectly represents retired or active peace officers.

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