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<br />employee shall be assigned such salary step upon the commencement of his or her service in <br />said classification and such assignment having once been made shall remain in effect until <br />the said employee shall be entitled to advance to the next salary step in accordance with the <br />further provisions of the Article. <br /> <br />An employee appointed to one of the designated non-sworn (CalPERS "Miscellaneous") <br />classifications of employment listed in this Agreement may be placed by the appointing <br />authority at Step "AA," Step "A," Step "B," or Step "C," within the applicable salary rate <br />range as provided above. <br /> <br />4.6 Service. The word "service" as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to mean continuous, <br />full-time service in the classification in which the employee is being considered for salary <br />advancement, service in a higher classification or service in a classification allocated to the <br />same salary rate range and having generally similar duties and requirements. Employees <br />hired after the first (1 st) working day of the month shall not be credited with "time in service" <br />for that month when determining the length of service required for salary step advancement. <br />A lapse of service by an employee for a period of time longer than ten (10) calendar days by <br />reason of resignation, quit, or discharge, shall serve to eliminate the accumulated length of <br />service time of such employee for the purpose of this Agreement and any such employee <br />reentering the service of the City shall be considered as a new employee, except that he or <br />she may be reemployed within two (2) years and placed in the same salary step in the <br />appropriate salary rate as he or she was at the time of termination of employment. <br />"Resignation, quit, or discharge" for purposes of this section shall mean leaving City service <br />altogether and not movement within City employment by way of transfer, promotion, or <br />demotion between and among any City departments. <br /> <br />4.7 Advancement Within Ranges. The following regulations shall govern salary advancement <br />wi thin rate ranges: <br /> <br />A. For any employee covered by this Agreement who has been initially appointed to a <br />step lower than Step "D," advancement to the next higher step (Step "A" from Step <br />"AA," Step "B" from Step "A," or Step "C" from Step "B," or Step "D" from Step "C," <br />respectively) shall be granted for continued satisfactory and efficient service by said <br />employee in the effective performance of the duties of his or her position. The <br />effective date ofan increase from Step "AA" to Step "A," if granted, shall be the first <br />(1st) day of the month following the completion of six (6) months of service at Step <br />"AA." The effective date of such step increase from Step "A," Step B," and Step "C," <br />if granted, shall be the first (1 st) day ofthe month following the completion of one (1) <br />year of service at the step which said employee is being advanced. <br /> <br />Such merit advancement shall require the following: <br /> <br />1. There shall be on file in the Office of the Executive Director of Personnel <br /> <br />8 <br />