All elective officers of the County and all officers appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall cooperate with the said County Executive to the end that complete coordination of all officers, services and employment, shall be accomplished, and the refusal of any such officer to so cooperate shall be deemed willful misconduct on the part of the officer so refusing.
Whenever any person in the service of the County is compelled to travel in the performance of his duty, he shall, in addition to his regular compensation, be reimbursed for his actual and necessary expenditures for transportation, lodging and meals. An itemized account of such expenditures shall be filed with and approved by the Auditor before payment. The Board of Supervisors shall fix a maximum price to be paid for such travel, lodging and meals, which shall be applicable to all such persons alike, including members of said Board of Supervisors.
No attorney, agent or employee of any firm, association or corporation doing business under or by virtue of any franchise granted by or contract made with the County, or financially interested in any such franchise or contract, shall be eligible to hold any appointive compensated county office.
Relatives to the third degree, whether by blood or marriage, of any officer making an appointment pursuant to the provisions of this Charter shall be ineligible to hold any appointive office or employment, under such officer. Nepotism shall be avoided in all public county employment.
All persons holding any office or employment under the County of Sacramento, whether elective or appointive, except members of the Board of Supervisors, shall be required to engage in the active work of the office or employment so held to the extent that their services may be necessary for the full and complete discharge of the duties of such office or employment.
(1953)
(1971)
Appointive officers or employees serving with compensation under this Charter are prohibited from engaging in any political activity for, or contributing or soliciting funds or support for or in behalf of, any elective officer provided for herein, or for any candidate for such elective office. Such activity shall constitute a just cause for removal.
NOTE: Section 80 is unconstitutional (County Counsel opinion 68-52, May 21, 1968).
The Board of Supervisors shall cause all motor vehicles belonging to the County to have painted conspicuously, on each side, the words, "Property of Sacramento County," "For Official Use Only," except that such motor vehicles as may be designated by the Sheriff, District Attorney and Probation Officer, in their respective departments, with the approval of the Board of Supervisors, as necessary for confidential departmental investigations, may be exempted from the foregoing provision. A record shall be kept showing the use of each motor vehicle.
(1957)
No member or members of the Board of Supervisors shall directly or indirectly coerce or attempt to coerce the County Executive, or any other county officer appointed or confirmed by the Board, in the performance of the duties of his office, or attempt to exact any promises from any candidate for any such office, relative to any appointment or removal of any county officer, and any violation of the provisions of this Section shall be willful misconduct of the Supervisor. Except for the purpose of obtaining information, the Board of Supervisors and its members shall deal solely and directly through the County Executive with respect to the part of the county government under his direction.
In purchases by the County of Sacramento, price and quality being equal, preference shall be given to Sacramento County products.
(1969)
If any Section, Subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Charter, is for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this Charter, it being hereby expressly declared that this Charter and each Section, Subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof would have been prepared and proposed, adopted, approved and ratified irrespective of the fact that any one or more other Sections, Subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Such headings or captions as precede the respective Articles and Sections of this Charter are inserted therein for convenience only, and shall be disregarded in construing said Charter or any part or portion thereof.
During the time any officer or employee is under suspension his salary shall cease.
No person shall be appointed to the office of Coroner, whether or not that office is consolidated with another public office, who is connected in any way, directly or indirectly, or related by blood or marriage, to any person, firm or corporation engaged in the mortuary business.
It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to pass and adopt such ordinances as may be necessary or proper in order to fully carry into effect each and every provision of this Charter.
This Section provided that the original Charter would become effective July 1, 1933, after ratification by the State Legislature.
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the County of Sacramento that strikes by deputy sheriffs, probation peace officers, and law enforcement managers are not in the public interest and should be prohibited and that a method should be adopted for peaceably and equitably resolving disputes that might otherwise lead to strikes. Any employee covered by this Article who willfully participates in an illegal strike or work stoppage shall be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination from employment.
(2009)
This Article shall apply to all employees represented by the labor organizations recognized by the County as representing employees in the bargaining units originally determined as the Sheriff Law Enforcement Non-Supervisory Unit (hereinafter referred to as the (003) Non-Supervisory Law Enforcement Unit), the Probation Non-Supervisory Unit, and the Law Enforcement Management Unit.
(2009)
The County, through its duly authorized representatives, shall negotiate in good faith with the organizations recognized as representing the (003) Non-Supervisory Law Enforcement Unit, the probation Non-Supervisory Unit, and the Law Enforcement Management Unit on all matters relating to the wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of County employment, including the establishment of procedures for the resolution of grievances concerning the interpretation or application of a negotiated agreement. Unless and until agreement is reached through negotiations between authorized representatives of the County and the organization recognized as representing the (003) Non-Supervisory Law Enforcement Unit or the organization recognized as representing the Probation Non-Supervisory Unit or the organization recognized as representing the Law Enforcement Management Unit or a determination is made through the impartial arbitration procedure hereinafter provided, no existing benefit, term or condition of employment for said employee organizations (003) shall be altered, eliminated or changed.
(2009)
(a) 
All disputes or controversies pertaining to wages, hours or terms and conditions of employment which remain unresolved after good faith negotiations between the County and the organization recognized as representing the (003) Non-Supervisory Law Enforcement Unit or the organization recognized as representing the Probation Non-Supervisory Unit or the organization recognized as representing the Law Enforcement Management Unit shall be submitted to a three-member Board of Arbitrators upon the declaration of an impasse by the county or by the employee organization involved in the dispute.
(b) 
Representatives designated by the County and representatives of the employee organization involved in the dispute shall each select and appoint one arbitrator to the Board of Arbitrators within three days after either party has notified the other, in writing, that it desires to proceed to arbitration. The third member of the Arbitration Board shall be selected by agreement between the county and the employee organization, and shall serve as the neutral arbitrator and Chairperson of the Board. In the event that the County and the employee cannot agree upon the selection of the neutral arbitrator within 10 days from the date that either party has notified the other that it has declared an impasse, either party may then request the State Mediation and Conciliation Service for the State of California Department of Industrial Relations to provide a list of seven persons who are qualified and experienced as labor arbitrators. If representatives of the county and the employee cannot agree within three days after receipt of such list on one of the seven persons to act as the neutral arbitrator, they shall alternately strike names from the list of nominees until one name remains and that person shall then become the neutral arbitrator and Chairperson of the Arbitration Board.
(c) 
Any arbitration proceeding convened pursuant to this Article shall be conducted in conformance with, subject to, and governed by Title 9 of Part 3 of the California Code of Civil Procedure. The Arbitration Board shall hold public hearings, receive evidence from the parties and cause a transcript of the proceedings to be prepared. The Arbitration Board, in the exercise of its discretion, may meet privately with the parties and mediates or "mede-arb" issues in dispute. The Arbitration Board may also adopt such other procedures that are designed to encourage an agreement between the parties, expedite the arbitration hearing process, or reduce the costs of the arbitration process.
(d) 
In the event no agreement is reached prior to the conclusion of the arbitration hearings, the Arbitration Board shall direct each of the parties to submit, within such time limit as the Arbitration Board may establish, a last offer of settlement on each of the remaining issues in dispute. The Arbitration Board shall decide each issue by majority vote by selecting whichever last offer of settlement on that issue it finds most nearly conforms to those factors traditionally taken into consideration in the determination of wages, hours, benefits and terms and conditions of employment of public and private employment, including but not limited to the following: changes in the average consumer price index for goods and services; the wages, hours, benefits and terms and conditions of employment of employees performing similar services to the extent that such can be reasonably done; and the financial condition of the County of Sacramento and its ability to meet the costs of the decision of the Arbitration Board.
(e) 
After reaching a decision, the Arbitration Board shall mail or otherwise deliver a true copy of its decision to the parties. The decision of the Arbitration Board shall not be publicly disclosed and shall not be binding until 10 days after it is delivered to the parties. During that 10 day period the parties shall meet privately, attempt to resolve their differences, and by mutual agreement amend or modify the decision of the Arbitration Board. At the conclusion of the 10 day period, which may be extended by mutual agreement between the parties, the decision of the Arbitration Board, as it may be modified or amended by the parties, shall be publicly disclosed and shall be binding on the parties. The County and the employee organization involved in the dispute shall take whatever action is necessary to carry out and effectuate the arbitration award. No other actions by the County Board of Supervisors or by the electorate to confirm or approve the decision of the Arbitration Board shall be required or permitted.
(f) 
The expenses of any arbitration proceeding convened pursuant to the Article, including the fee for the services of the chairperson of the Arbitration Board and the costs of preparation of the transcript of the proceedings, shall be borne equally by the parties. All other expenses which the parties may incur individually are to be borne by the party incurring such expenses.
(2009)
(a) 
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Charter, in the event a ballot measure is approved at the June 2, 1998, primary election, or at any election thereafter, to amend this Charter to require any labor contracts to be submitted to binding arbitration, the results of such arbitration as to certain contract provisions shall be binding only to the extent that those provisions, as designated herein, are approved by the majority of the voters voting in a county-wide election in which the question of approval or disapproval is placed in accordance with the requirements of this section.
(b) 
In the event of arbitration resulting from a Charter amendment described in subdivision (a) of this section, the Board of Supervisors shall cause provisions of a contract between the county and the affected employee organization approved by the arbitration panel to be submitted to the voters only as follows:
(1) 
If in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sheriff, or the Chief Probation Officer, any portion of an arbitration panel's decision would substantially interfere with management's prerogative to deploy or assign personnel, that portion only of the panel's decision must, prior to implementation, be submitted to the electorate in accordance with this section;
(2) 
If in the sole and absolute discretion of the Board of Supervisors, any portion of the arbitration panel's decision would, absent diversion of funds deemed necessary by the Board for other County programs or services, require a tax increase to fund the decision, that portion only of the panel's decision must, prior to implementation, be submitted to the electorate in accordance with this section;
(3) 
If neither the Sheriff, the Chief Probation Officer, nor the Board of Supervisors makes requisite findings within 10 days of receipt of notice of the arbitration panel's decision, no voter approval shall be required and the contract shall become effective in accordance with other provision of this Charter.
(c) 
If any portion of an arbitration panel's decision is submitted to the electorate in accordance with this section, the contract provision of any existing or expired contract which are modified or amended by the arbitrator panel's decision shall continue to be binding and effective pending voter approval and certification of the election results in accordance with subsection (d) of this section.
(d) 
Upon approval of provisions of a contract by the voters, those provisions shall become effective no later than 30 days from the date election results are certified by the Registrar of Voters.
(e) 
Upon disapproval of provisions of a contract by the voters, the decision of the arbitrator(s) as to those issues shall be null and void and the County and affected collective bargaining unit(s) may resume the bargaining process in the same manner as though arbitration on those issues had not yet occurred.
(f) 
All other contract provisions approved by arbitration required by this Charter and not subject to voter approval shall be given effect in the manner required by this Charter unless modified by agreement of the parties.
(g) 
In the event contract provisions are to be submitted to the electorate pursuant to this section, the Board of Supervisors shall cause the matter to be placed before the voters of the County at the next regularly scheduled election date on which such a question can be placed on the ballot.
(h) 
This section shall apply only to those labor contracts subject to any Charter amendment approved at the June 2, 1998, primary election requiring such contracts to be submitted to binding arbitration.
(2009)