Title GOV — California Gov. Code

“Public service” for purposes of this article means the following: (a) The period of time an employee served the state, a school employer, or a contracting agency prior to becoming a member, when the service was rendered in a position in which the employee was excluded provided o…

(a) “Public service” also means time, on or after October 14, 1991, during which a person was employed under the California Senate Fellows, the Assembly Fellowship, or the Executive Fellowship programs, and time, on or after January 1, 2003, during which a person was employed und…

“Public service” for the employee of a student body organization, that is not a contracting agency, of a community college, means the period of employment prior to becoming a member of the permanent classified service of the district pursuant to Section 76060 or 88020 of the Educ…

“Public service,” with respect to a local member who is a full-time employee, also means any time on or after January 1, 1981, but not to exceed 12 months, during which the local member is laid off. In the event the member becomes subject to membership through employment in anoth…

(a) “Public service” with respect to a state member, other than a university member, also means the following: (1) Time during which the member was a prisoner of war involving the United States, plus the time, if any, during which a member was hospitalized following his or her re…

(a) “Public service” for purposes of this article also means time served, not to exceed three years, as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), or AmeriCorps. (b) This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employ…

(a) “Public service” with respect to a local member, other than a school member, also means active service with the Armed Forces of the United States or the Merchant Marine of the United States, including time during any period of rehabilitation afforded by the United States gove…

(a) “Public service” with respect to a member who is a local firefighter also means time served, before becoming a member, as a permanent career civilian federal firefighter or permanent career state firefighter in a position whose principal duties consist of active fire suppress…

“Public service” with respect to a local member also means service rendered to a public agency if that agency or a function of that agency is assumed by a contracting agency or a public agency that thereafter becomes a contracting agency. This section shall not apply to any contr…

(a) “Public service” with respect to a school member or a retired school member also means service rendered on or after June 30, 1977, and prior to June 30, 1982, to an independent data processing center formed pursuant to former Article 2 (commencing with Section 10550) of Chapt…

“Public service” with respect to a local member also means service rendered to any California nonprofit corporation whose function is to serve firefighters employed by state and local agencies. This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of any con…

(a) “Public service” with respect to a local member who retired pursuant to this part before the effective date of the election of their employer to be subject to Section 21024 also means active service with the Armed Forces of the United States or the Merchant Marine of the Unit…

“Public service” also means service in temporary, seasonal, limited term, on call, emergency, intermittent, substitute, or other irregular employment in which a person is excluded from membership.

(a) “Public service” with respect to a state member or a school member or with respect to a retired former state employee or a retired former school employee, who retired on or after December 31, 1981, also means active service, prior to entering this system as a state member or …

(a) “Public service” with respect to a state member also means all periods of service rendered as an officer, warrant officer, or a person in the enlisted ranks of the California National Guard prior to electing membership in this system pursuant to Section 20326. “Public service…

(a) “Public service” for purposes of this article also means employment under a program sponsored by, and financed at least in part by, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, as amended. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member electing to receive …

(a) “Public service” also means employment by a contracting agency before the effective date of its contract with the board, and is limited to that portion of the service that the agency does not provide in its contract for inclusion as prior service. (b) A member electing to rec…

A member may elect at any time prior to retirement, in accordance with regulations of the board, to receive credit for public service, under any of the definitions in this article, in addition to his or her current and prior service credit. An election shall be effective only if …

A member electing to receive credit for public service shall contribute in a lump sum or by installment payments over that period and subject to minimum payments as may be prescribed by regulations of the board an amount equal to (a) the contributions he or she would have made to…

Public service may be credited as current or prior service, or both, as it would be credited if the member had been in state service during his or her public service. Credit shall not be granted for public service which would be credited as prior service unless the member has con…

Benefits based on service credited under this article in excess of the portion paid from member contributions shall be paid from the contributions of the employer in whose employment the service was rendered or the right to receive the service credit for an employment constitutin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following shall apply: (a) A member who has elected to receive credit for service by contributing in installments and who retires for disability on or after January 1, 2004, when the election for service credit does not increase the…

All contributions of a member under this article shall be considered to be and shall be administered as normal contributions.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a safety member, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 20371, who has elected to receive credit for service by making contributions in installment payments and who retires or has retired due to industrial disability while making …

(a) An election by a member to receive credit for service under this part, in addition to his or her current and prior service credit, shall be effective only if accompanied by a lump-sum payment or an authorization for payments, other than a lump-sum payment, in accordance with …

(a) A member electing to receive credit for service subject to this section shall contribute, in accordance with Section 21050, an amount equal to the following: (1) The contributions the member would have made to the system for the period for which current service credit is gran…

A member or retired former employee who elects to receive service credit subject to this section shall contribute, in accordance with Section 21050, an amount equal to the increase in employer liability, using the payrate and other factors affecting liability on the date of the r…

A person who is solely a National Guard member or who retires from membership in this system solely as a National Guard member may elect to receive service credit under either of the following: (a) The National Guard member elects to receive service credit pursuant to Section 207…

All contributions of a member under this article shall be deemed to be and shall be administered as normal contributions.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member or retired member who elected to purchase military service credit under Section 21024 or 21027 on or after January 1, 1999, and prior to January 1, 2001, may, at any time prior to making the final payment for the service credit…

The surveyor shall be a person authorized to practice land surveying in this state. The surveyor shall be elected in the same manner and for the same term as other county officers unless the board of supervisors of the county shall have provided by ordinance for his or her appoin…

The qualifications for eligibility to a county or district office, required by Section 24001 of this Code, shall not apply to candidates or applicants for, or a person elected or appointed to, the office of surveyor in a county containing a population of under 20,000 as determine…

Notwithstanding Section 27550, in Solano County, the county surveyor is not an elected position and may be appointed by the Director of Transportation if the board of supervisors have so provided by ordinance for that appointment. If so appointed, the surveyor shall serve at the …

The surveyor shall make any survey that is required by order of court or the board of supervisors. He shall keep a correct and fair record of all surveys made by him, number them in the order made, and preserve a copy of the field notes and calculations of each survey, and shall …

Any person owning or claiming land which is divided by county lines and who wishes to have it surveyed may apply to the surveyor of any county in which any part of the land is situated. Upon such application, the surveyor shall make the survey, which is as valid as though the lan…

When the title of land which is in dispute before any court, is divided by a county line, the court making an order of survey may direct the order to the surveyor of any county in which any part of the land is situated.

When required the surveyor shall aid and assist the State Lands Commission in making surveys within the county.

When the surveyor is interested in any land, the title to which is in dispute, and a survey is necessary, the court shall direct the survey to be made by some disinterested person. The person so appointed is for that purpose authorized to administer and certify oaths. He shall re…

The surveyor shall copy, plat, or trace each map filed for record in the office of the county recorder, at the cost of the party filing the map, and is ex officio deputy recorder for the county for such purposes. All maps or plats filed by a licensed land surveyor and such other …

The surveyor shall plat, trace, blueprint, or otherwise make all county, road, district, and other maps and, at the request of the assessor, make all assessors’ block-books for the county.

The board of supervisors may provide and pay from county funds for the making or purchase of the maps and block-books by contract with some other competent person, if any of the following conditions exist: (a) The office of the assessor is not provided with maps and block-books. …

In the preparation of assessors’ maps and block-books the surveyor shall make all investigations and surveys necessary to provide complete and accurate maps.

All maps which are platted, traced, blueprinted, or otherwise so made for the county and all data obtained by the surveyor or person making them from other sources is the property of the county.

The board of supervisors may provide for the sale at not less than cost of copies of maps prepared for the use of the assessor.

The surveyor shall make such surveys of county roads and perform such other engineering work as the board of supervisors directs. All surveys shall be tied by courses and distances to the corners of legal subdivisions through which they pass or to natural or artificial monuments.…

In all surveys the courses shall be expressed according to the true meridian, and the variation of the magnetic meridian from the true meridian shall be expressed on the plat with the date of the survey.

Within 90 days after making any survey which adjoins or crosses any lands owned by the State, excluding tax-deeded lands but including school lands, swamp and overflow lands, or tidelands, any navigable stream or slough, or any county boundary, each surveyor shall transmit to the…

If in the performance of his official duties any surveyor finds a government corner which has been marked by a government surveyor by placing charcoal in the ground or a wooden stake, earth mound, or other perishable monument, he shall remark the corner by placing therein a monum…

All monuments located in public highways shall be placed with the top not less than 12 inches below the surface of the ground, but when not located in public highways, they shall be placed with the top six inches above the surface of the ground. If the top of the monument is plac…

The surveyor shall note witness objects that are within a reasonable distance of any corner, and state distance and course from the corner. He shall record the note in a properly indexed record book in the county surveyor’s office. The book is a public record.