“Class” means a group of positions sufficiently similar with respect to duties and responsibilities that the same title may reasonably and fairly be used to designate each position allocated to the class and that substantially the same tests of fitness may be used and that substantially the same minimum qualifications may be required and that the same schedule of compensation may be made to apply with equity.
Cal. Gov. Code § 18523
Definitions
Known as the State Civil Service Act
The act spans §§ 18500–19799 (366 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 110 Cal. App. 4th 963 - Hastings v. Department of Corrections (2003)
Most recently applied in 159 Cal. App. 4th 1114 - Hulings v. State Department of Health Care Services (February 2008)
Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1227.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.