County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) - sdcera

that person may be assigned, excepting, however, those employees whose principal duties are
those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist or mechanic.
(b) Any other provision in the Government Code to the contrary notwithstanding,
“county peace officer” shall also include and mean any inspectors, detectives and investigators
employed by the district attorney, whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal
cases and to receive regular compensation for that service.
(c) “County peace officer” does not include a local prosecutor, local public defender, or
local public defender investigator, as defined in Section 31469.2.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1197, Sec. 1)
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1152 (A.B. 2023), Sec. 8)
§31469.2. “Local prosecutor,” “local public defender,” “local public defender investigator,”
defined
(a) For purposes of this chapter, “local prosecutor” means any one of the following:
(1) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria:
(A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the
district attorney.
(B) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was district
attorney, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy district attorney,
assistant district attorney, chief assistant district attorney, senior assistant district attorney, or
any other similar classification or title.
(C) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date Section 31470.14
becomes applicable in the county.
(2) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria:
(A) He or she was employed in the office of a district attorney prior to the date the
local child support agency transitioned from the district attorney to a new county department,
as specified in Section 17304 of the Family Code.
(B) His or her job classification was district attorney, deputy district attorney,
chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy district attorney, assistant district attorney, chief
assistant district attorney, senior assistant district attorney, or any other similar classification or
title.
(C) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was an attorney in a local child
support agency, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 17000 of the Family Code, with no
break in service between employment by a district attorney and the local child support agency.
(D) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the date Section 31470.14
becomes applicable in the county.
(3) A city officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria:
(A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the
city attorney.
(B) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was primarily engaged in the active
enforcement of criminal laws within any court operating in a county.
(C) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was city attorney,
deputy city attorney, chief deputy city attorney, assistant city attorney, chief assistant city
attorney, or any other similar classification or title.
(D) His or her effective date or retirement is on or after the date Section 31470.14
becomes applicable in the county.
(b) For purposes of this chapter, “local public defender” means a city or county officer or
employee who meets all of the following criteria:
(1) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the
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