SECTION 1. The County officers other than supervisors shall be such officers as are required or authorized by the Constitution, this Charter, general law or by ordinance of the Board of Supervisors. | COUNTY OFFICERS OTHER THAN SUPERVISORS |
SECTION 2. The Board of Supervisors may, by ordinance, consolidate any two or more County offices or may separate any offices now or hereafter consolidated. In the event of consolidation of an elective office with an appointive office, such consolidated office shall be filled in the same manner in which the elective office is filled.
| BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CONSOLIDATING COUNTY OFFICES |
SECTION 3. All County offices in this County, now or hereafter existing, other than the office of supervisor, that would under the general laws of this State be filled by election, if no County Charter had been adopted, are hereby declared to be and are made elective County offices and the incumbents thereof are declared to be and are made elective County officers, and all such elective County officers shall be elected at the general election at which the Governor is elected, and shall take office at twelve o'clock meridian on the first Monday after the first day of January next succeeding their election and shall hold office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified, and all such elective County officers shall be nominated and elected in the manner provided by general laws for the nomination and election of such officers. | COUNTY OFFICES DEEMED ELECTIVE
WHEN COUNTY OFFICERS ELECTED
TERM OF OFFICE, NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF COUNTY OFFICER |
SECTION 3A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of this Article, the office of County Clerk shall be an appointive office to be filled and held in the same manner as set forth in Section 4.
| OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK |
SECTION 4. All County offices in this County that would, under the general laws, be filled by appointment if no County Charter had been adopted, and all County offices hereafter created or existing in this County under or pursuant to general law, in which such general law a method of filling such offices by appointment is provided, are hereby declared to be and are made appointive County offices, and the incumbents thereof are declared to be and are made appointive County officers; and all such appointive County offices be respectively filled in the same manner, and by the same appointing body or person as is provided in such general laws, and such appointive County officer shall be appointed and hold office for the same time and upon the same conditions as to tenure of office and subject to the same right of removal as though such appointment had been made under such general laws provided nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to relate to the appointment of assistants, deputies, attaches, and other persons to be employed in such appointive offices. | COUNTY OFFICES DEEMED APPOINTIVE
FILLING OF APPOINTIVE COUNTY OFFICES |
SECTION 5. The Board of Supervisors shall establish, where not otherwise expressly provided by law, the number, qualifications, powers and duties of all County officers and employees. Compensation of officers and employees shall be established by ordinance. All such officers and employees, except those designated by the Board of Supervisors by ordinance shall be in the Classified Service of the County and subject to Civil Service rules and regulations. Nothing herein shall be deemed to impinge upon any authority otherwise conferred by law upon an officer to appoint deputies. The appointment of any deputy must be made in writing and filed in the office of the County Clerk, and until such appointment is so made and filed, no one shall be or act as such deputy. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to limit the authority of the Board of Supervisors to employ persons for positions in the Unclassified Service and to fix their compensation by contract. | BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SETS STANDARDS FOR SUCH EMPLOYEES
COMPENSATION OF COUNTY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY FILED WITH COUNTY CLERK |
SECTION 6. Any County officer other than supervisor may be removed from office in the manner provided by law; also any such officer may be removed by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors, for cause, after first serving upon such officer a written statement of alleged grounds for such removal, and giving him a reasonable opportunity to be heard in the way of explanation or defense. | NOTICE OF GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL; DEFENSE |
SECTION 7. Any vacancy in a County office other than that of supervisor, shall be filled by the Board of Supervisors by appointment for the unexpired term. | FILLING VACANCY IN COUNTY OFFICE |
SECTION 8. Repealed by Amendment #26, approved March 15, 1971. |
SECTION 9. Repealed by Amendment #26, approved March 15, 1971. |
SECTION 10. Each county officer shall be the appointing authority for all assistants, deputies, clerks, attaches and other persons employed or serving in his office, whenever a vacancy shall exist. | COUNTY OFFICER APPOINTING ASSISTANTS |
SECTION 11. The staff members of the members of the Board of Supervisors shall serve in the Unclassified Service at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors. The terms and conditions of employment of such staff members shall be established by contract approved by the Board of Supervisors. A contract for such staff members may be terminated without cause, by approval of individual employing member of the Board of Supervisors or the Board of Supervisors by four votes. Such staff members shall receive the same ethics training as is provided to members of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to Government Code §§ 53234 et seq.
| HIGHER ETHICS STANDARDS FOR STAFF MEMBERS OF COUNTY ELECTED OFFICERS |
Staff members of elected County officers other than Supervisor, at the level of assistant department head or its equivalent level, shall serve in the Unclassified service at the pleasure of the appointing elected County officer, in that elected officer's sole discretion. Except for the offices of Sheriff and District Attorney, qualifications for all staff members in the Unclassified service, of elected County officers other than Supervisor, shall be established by the elected County officer and approved by the Board of Supervisors. For the offices of Sheriff and District Attorney, the persons to be appointed as Undersheriff shall be certified by the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST), and persons to be appointed as Assistant District Attorney shall be a member in good standing of the State Bar of California. Elected County officers other than Supervisor, and staff members of elected County officers other than Supervisor at the level of assistant department head or its equivalent level, shall receive the same ethics training as is provided to members of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to Government Code §§ 53234 et seq.
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This section shall not apply to the staff of the Superintendent of Schools. |
