69893.7-69917
GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 69893.7-69917
69893.7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following
provisions shall apply to the Yolo County superior and municipal
courts.
(a) To assist the court in the performance of its duties and the
exercise of the powers conferred by law upon the court, a majority of
the judges of the superior and municipal courts, with the approval
of the board of supervisors, may establish such job classifications
and may appoint a clerk and such officers, assistants, and employees,
including official court reporters, as necessary. A majority of the
judges of the superior and municipal courts may delegate the creation
of job classifications and the appointment of employees to the court
executive officer. Official court reporters shall hold office at the
pleasure of the appointing officer.
(b) The compensation, including salary, retirement, vacations, and
other benefits, of all Yolo County superior and municipal court
officers and employees may be adjusted by the board of supervisors.
The board of supervisors may extend the management benefits package
to officers, assistants, and employees of the superior and municipal
courts, including judges, on the same basis as it is extended to
other officers and employees of the county. Unless otherwise provided
by law, employees of the superior and municipal courts are subject
to the personnel regulations, memoranda of understanding and
affirmative action plan of the county.
(c) In addition to the official court reporters, the presiding
judge of the superior and municipal courts may appoint as many court
reporters pro tempore as the business of the court requires, who
shall hold office at his or her pleasure. The court reporters pro
tempore shall be unsalaried, but shall be compensated at a rate to be
established by joint action of the board of supervisors and a
majority of the judges of the superior and municipal courts. In
criminal cases, the compensation of the court reporters pro tempore
shall, upon order of the court, be a charge against the general fund
of the county. The presiding judge of the superior and municipal
courts may delegate the appointment of court reporters pro tempore
and the determination of their salary to the court executive officer.
69894.3. Employees of the superior court in each county having a
population of over 2,000,000 shall be entitled to step advancement,
vacation, sick leave, holiday benefits and other leaves of absence
and other benefits as may be directed by rules of the court. Where
statutes require implementation by local ordinances for the extension
of benefits to local officers and employees, these may be made
applicable by rule to court personnel, including but not limited to
jurors, and judges.
These benefits shall also include the same lump sum payments for
sick leave and vacation for the superior court employees when they
are separated from the service as are made to county employees of the
county; except that lump-sum payments to court commissioners when
separated from the service of the superior court shall be limited to
accrued vacation if any, as is provided by local rule of court,
exclusive of accrued sick leave.
Court employees under this section shall have the right to
transfer to other departments in the county government, subject to
the approval of the board of supervisors, the county charter, and
other usual conditions that may be placed upon the transfer,
including, but not limited to, a requirement that the transferee
successfully complete an appropriate civil service examination. The
right of transfer shall not give any employee any additional rights
by reason of his employment with the court, other than those to which
he would have been entitled if the employment had been with a
different department of the county government.
Employment by the court shall be deemed to be employment by the
county, if approved by rule of court, for the purpose of determining
a court employee's rights with respect to a county's ordinances
providing for salary step advancements and other employee benefits
and rights, including, but not limited to, amount of compensation,
vacations, sick leave, and accumulated sick leave.
In any such county attach