CA Codes (fgc:850-860)FISH AND GAME CODE
SECTION 850-860
850. The director shall, from time to time, employ or appoint, with
or without pay, such deputies, clerks, assistants, and other
employees as the department may need to discharge in proper manner
the duties imposed upon it by law.
851. A deputy appointed to enforce the provisions of this code is a
peace officer. The deputy has all the powers and authority conferred
by law upon peace officers listed in Section 830.6 of the Penal Code
to make arrests for violations of this code, and may serve all
processes and notices throughout the state.
853. The director may deputize any employee of the department to
check persons for licenses required under Section 7145 and to enforce
any violation of that section. Before a person is deputized pursuant
to this section for the first time, the person shall have
satisfactorily completed a training course meeting the minimum
standards of, and comparable to, the training for "level III reserve"
as set forth in the regulations of the Commission on Peace Officer
Standards and Training. Any person, who is deputized for this limited
purpose pursuant to this section, may not enforce any other
provision of this code, and is not a peace officer subject to Chapter
4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal
Code.
854. Notwithstanding Section 18932 of the Government Code, the
minimum age limit for appointment to the position of fish and game
warden of the Department of Fish and Game shall be 18 years. Any
examination for the position of warden shall require a demonstration
of the physical ability to effectively carry out the duties and
responsibilities of the position in a manner that would not
inordinately endanger the health or safety of any warden or the
health and safety of others.
855. Regularly employed law enforcement officers of the department
may, when authorized by the director, expend such sums as authorized
for the purchase of fish, birds, or mammals as evidence, or for
expenditures related to the procurement of such evidence, or for
expenditures made to investigate other violations of this code
without divulging the identity of the employee.
The sums so expended shall be repaid to the law enforcement
officer making the expenditure upon claims approved by the director.
The claims, when approved, shall be paid out of the funds
appropriated or made available by law for the support of the
department.
856. (a) All employees of the department designated by the director
as deputized law enforcement officers are peace officers as provided
by Section 830.2 of the Penal
