California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 3 - Public Employment Relations Board
Chapter 6 - Representation Proceedings Under Public Utilities Code Transit District Acts
Subchapter 2 - Representation Procedures Under the los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act
Article 1 - General Provisions
Section 71010 - Definitions

(a) "Election Intervenor" means an employee organization, whether or not a party to a unit determination hearing, filing an intervention to appear on the ballot for an election in an appropriate unit pursuant to TEERA.

(b) "Employee" or "transit district employee" is defined at Public Utilities Code Section 99560.1(e). Non-confidential, supervisory employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority are the only employees covered by TEERA.

(c) "Employee organization," as defined in Public Utilities Code Section 99560.1(f), means any organization of any kind in which non-confidential, supervisory employees of the Authority participate and that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with transit district employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment of such employees.

(d) "Employer" or "transit district employer" is defined at Public Utilities Code Section 99560.1(g). The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("Authority") is the only employer covered by TEERA.

(e) "Intervenor" means an employee organization filing a competing claim of representation or a challenge to the appropriateness of the unit pursuant to TEERA.

(f) "Parties" means the Authority and any employee organization that is the exclusive representative of any supervisory employees under TEERA, or any employee organization known to have an interest in representing any such employees as demonstrated by an appropriate filing with PERB.

(g) "Petitioner" means an employee organization filing a TEERA representation petition.

(h) "Requester" means an employee organization filing a TEERA request for recognition.

(i) "TEERA" means the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act, codified at Public Utilities Code Section 99560, et seq.

(j) "Window period" means the 31-day period established pursuant to Public Utilities Code Sections 99564.1(c) and 99564.4(b)(1), which is not more than 120 days and not less than 90 days prior to the expiration date of a memorandum of understanding negotiated by the PUC transit employer and the exclusive representative. The memorandum of understanding expiration date means the last effective date of the memorandum. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 32130, the date on which the memorandum of understanding expires shall not be counted for the purpose of computing the window period.