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63 California Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1980)

handle is hein.sag/sagca0063 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA Opinion No. 79-1214-January 2, 1980 SUBJECT: YOUTHFUL OFFENDER PAROLE BOARD-State employees of the new Youthful Offender Parole Board are miscellaneous members of the Public Employees Retirement System rather than safety or industrial members. Requested by: DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE YOUTH AUTHORITY Opinion by: GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, Attorney General Edmund E. White, Deputy The Honorable Pearl S. West, Director, Department of the Youth Authority, requests an opinion on the following question: Are state employees who by operation of law were transferred from the staff of the Youth Authority Board to the staff of the Youthful Offender Parole Board on January 1, 1980, entitled to continue to be safety or industrial members of the Public Employees Retirement System in accordance with their P.E.R.S. classifica- tion while they were staff of the Youth Authority Boaid? CONCLUSION State employees of the new Youthful Offender Parole Board are miscellan- eous members of the Public Employees Retirement System rather than safety or industrial members. ANALYSIS Pursuant to the provisions of chapter 860, Statutes of 1979, effective January 1, 1980, the Youth Authority Board was abolished. The newly created Youthful Offender Parole Board succeeded to the powers and duties previously vested in the Youth Authority Board. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 1725.)' 1 All unidentified section references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code. 1~