PERB: OPERATION, JURISDICTION, AUTHORITY; APPLICABILITY OF AND CONFLICTS WITH OTHER STATUTES – Conflicts Between PERB-Administered Laws and Other California Statutes; Education Code/Supersession; MMBA Supersession

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101.00000 – PERB: OPERATION, JURISDICTION, AUTHORITY; APPLICABILITY OF AND CONFLICTS WITH OTHER STATUTES
101.02000 – Conflicts Between PERB-Administered Laws and Other California Statutes; Education Code/Supersession; MMBA Supersession

While the Board does not presume to rule on the scope of the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Business and Professions Code or other regulations concerning the practice of law, neither will the fact that attorneys have obligations under those rules defeat PERB’s jurisdiction to resolve alleged violations of the statutes which PERB administers, including the MMBA. Publically employed attorneys have rights under the MMBA. PERB’s assertion of jurisdiction does not interfere with the ability of the Supreme Court of California or the State Bar of California to regulate the practice of law under the State Bar Act (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6000 et seq.), the Rules of Professional Conduct or the California Rules of Court, because resolution of this dispute does not regulate the practice of law. Under the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers, the courts have inherent and primary regulatory power over the practice of law. PERB has no power to regulate the practice of law.