Ed. Code, § 89556

(a) The president at each campus, and the chancellor at the office of the chancellor, shall establish and maintain reemployment lists of all permanent employees laid off for lack of funds or lack of work during the preceding five-year period. Laid-off permanent employees shall be listed by class or teaching service area corresponding to the class or teaching service area from which they were laid off.

(b) In the event there is a vacancy at a campus or at the office of the chancellor, for which there exists no reemployment list, the position may be offered to the persons in the appropriate class or teaching service area who are on mandatory reemployment lists at another campus or the office of the chancellor.

(c) A person shall deliver or cause to be delivered his acceptance of an offer with the following times:

(1) When the person resides in the city from which the offer is mailed, five days after the date the offer is received.

(2) When the person resides outside such city, seven days after the offer is received.

(3) When the offer is made by telephone or telegram, 48 hours after the offer is received. While a prudent effort shall be made to contact the person eligible for reemployment, it is his responsibility to keep the office maintaining the reemployment list informed of where he may be reached readily.

(d) Any person on a reemployment list who cannot be reached within five days, or who fails to reply to an offer of reemployment as required by this section, shall be deemed to have declined the offer. Such failure by any person may be excused by the president or chancellor at his discretion. If the failure is excused, the person may be reemployed or his name may be continued on the reemployment list if the vacancy has already been filled.

(e) Any person on a reemployment list may request inactive status for a prescribed period of not to exceed one year.

(f) Any person on the reemployment list who declines two offers of reemployment shall be removed from the list. Any person removed from a reemployment list may be restored to his relative position on the list at the discretion of the president or chancellor upon a showing of good cause.

(g) Any employee reemployed pursuant to this article shall be reemployed in a class at a level at least equal to that from which he was laid off.

(h) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further legislative action, except that if such provisions of a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure of funds, the provisions shall not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.