Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The program payment shall be calculated by the system as an aggregate amount equal to a percentage of the judge’s monthly salary for each month of the extended service period, taking into account any salary increases occurring during the period, plus monthly interest thereon at a…

Upon the termination of employment and retirement of a judge who is entitled to a program payment, as described in subdivision (a) of Section 75086.1, the judge shall receive the program payment, calculated pursuant to Section 75087, in the form of a single, lump-sum payment, in …

The required beginning date of distributions that reflect the entire interest of the judge shall be as follows: (a) In the case of a lump-sum distribution to the judge, the lump-sum payment shall be made not later than April 1 of the calendar year following the later of the calen…

A judge described in Section 75086 may, at any time, designate a beneficiary to receive the benefits that may be payable to his or her beneficiary or estate under this article by a writing filed with the board, except that no designation may be made in derogation of the community…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a judge shall have no vested rights under this article unless and until the judge satisfies the eligibility requirements specified in Section 75086. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit the right of the Legislature to sub…

The Judicial Council shall, on or before January 1, 2006, prepare a report to the Legislature that analyzes the effects of the Extended Service Incentive Program, including the effect, if any, of the program on the length of service of judges. The report shall include recommendat…

The benefits of this article are payable only to the surviving spouse of a judge who elects to come within this article. Any person who becomes a judge after August 22, 1964, may elect to come within this article within six months after becoming a judge or three months after noti…

(a) If a judge who is credited with at least 10 years of service but less than 20 years of service under this chapter dies prior to retiring under this chapter, and while serving as a judge, his or her surviving spouse shall receive a monthly allowance, payable from the Judges’ R…

Any judge electing to come within this article shall contribute two dollars ($2) a month to the Judges’ Retirement Fund. Such contribution shall be deducted from the monthly salary of each judge so electing by the State Controller and each county auditor in the same manner as ded…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article to the contrary, the surviving spouse of any judge who died in office on or after January 1, 1987, shall receive a monthly allowance, equal to 25 percent of the monthly salary payable at the time payment of the allowance fa…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article to the contrary, the surviving spouse of a judge shall receive an allowance that is equal to the amount that the judge would have received had the judge been retired from service on the date of his or her death and had elect…

The benefits of this article are payable only to the surviving children of a judge who elects to come within this article. Any person who becomes a judge after November 23, 1970, may elect to come within this article within six months after becoming a judge, or within six months …

The monthly allowance payable pursuant to Section 75091 shall be paid to the guardian of surviving unmarried children while under 18 years of age and the surviving unmarried children over age 18 and under the age of 22 who are full-time students, and to the child or guardian of a…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article to the contrary, the guardian of surviving unmarried children while under 18 years of age and the surviving unmarried children over age 18 and under age 22 who are full-time students, of a judge who dies prior to retirement wit…

A monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance payable pursuant to Section 75104.4 shall be paid, in lieu of the allowance provided in Section 75096, or any other surviving children’s benefits, to the guardian of surviving unmarried children while under 18 years of age and the s…

A monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance payable pursuant to Section 75077 shall be paid, in lieu of any other surviving children’s benefits, to the guardian of surviving unmarried children while under 18 years of age and the surviving unmarried children over age 18 and un…

Any judge electing to come within this article shall contribute three dollars ($3) a month to the Judges’ Retirement Fund. The contribution shall be deducted from the monthly salary of each judge so electing by the Controller and each county auditor in the same manner as deductio…

If an allowance is paid under this article no payment shall be made pursuant to Section 75104 or Section 75104.5, provided however, that if the prospective allowance payable to the children under the provisions of this article upon the death of a judge or retired judge without a …

There is in the State Treasury a fund known as the Judges’ Retirement Fund. All retirement allowances payable by law to judges shall be paid out of this fund. The fund shall consist of all cash, securities, or other assets paid into it in accordance with this article.

The Controller shall at the end of each month ascertain the aggregate amount of the annual salaries of judges covered by the system, and out of the General Fund he or she shall transfer monthly into the Judges’ Retirement Fund a sum equal to 8 percent of one-twelfth of the aggreg…

Except as provided in Section 75103.3, the Controller shall at the end of each month commencing with the salary for the month of July 1964 deduct 8 percent from the monthly salary, not including the additional compensation pursuant to Section 68203.1, of each Justice of the Supre…

Except as provided in Section 75103.3, the auditor of each county shall deduct 8 percent from the portion paid by a county of the monthly salary, not including the additional compensation pursuant to Section 68203.1, of each judge of the superior court and cause this amount to be…

The Legislature reserves the right to increase the rates of contribution prescribed by Sections 75101 to 75103, inclusive, in such amounts as it may find appropriate.

The Legislature reserves the right to reduce any benefits applicable to any person who becomes a judge on and after January 1, 1980.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state and the county may pick up, for the sole purpose of deferring income taxes thereon, as authorized by Section 414(h)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.A. Sec. 414(h)(2)) and Section 17501 of the Revenue and Taxation Cod…

No county shall directly or indirectly pay from its funds the member contributions to the Judges’ Retirement Fund required by this article.

Calculations of retirement benefits and Extended Service Incentive Program benefits under this chapter for any judge in the Voluntary Waiver of Salary Program, as described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 68106, shall include salary and contributions that would hav…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), should any judge die, resign, or cease to be a judge prior to his or her retirement, or die after electing to allow his or her accumulated contributions to remain in the fund pursuant to Section 75033 but prior to atta…

(a) The surviving spouse of any judge who dies on or after January 1, 1954, but before retirement and after becoming eligible for retirement pursuant to Section 75025 or 75033 or who dies on or after January 1, 1954, while serving as judge and has served as a judge for 30 years, …

Upon the death of a judge before retirement there shall be paid to his or her beneficiary, if he or she has designated one, and if not, to his or her estate, in addition to any other benefits provided by this chapter or by Division 4 of the Labor Code, an amount equal to one-twel…

The Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System shall have authority to invest the money contained in the Judges’ Retirement Fund in the same manner and subject to the same restrictions as investments of the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund.

The State Treasurer is the custodian of the Judges’ Retirement Fund. At the end of each month the Judges’ Retirement System shall ascertain the written notices of voluntary retirement and the written certificates of involuntary retirement that have been filed with the Judges’ Ret…

A retired judge or the surviving spouse of a judge, entitled to receive an allowance under the provisions of this chapter, may authorize deductions to be made from the allowance, in accordance with regulations established for the payment of group insurance premiums and other prem…

Whenever it appears to the Judges’ Retirement System that the money in the Judges’ Retirement Fund is insufficient, or is likely to become insufficient, to pay all retirement allowances payable by law to retired judges and all other obligations of the fund which will become payab…

Notwithstanding any other provision, all expenses of administration of this article shall be paid by appropriation from the fund.

If the Judges’ Retirement System determines that there has been an overpayment of contributions or that any amount not required to be paid under this chapter has been paid by a judge, the Judges’ Retirement System shall refund the amount of the overpayment or excess payment to th…

(a) When there has been a payment of death benefits, a return of accumulated contributions, a contribution adjustment, or a deposit of contributions, this system may refrain from collecting an underpayment of accumulated contributions if the amount to be collected is two hundred …

The Judges’ Retirement System shall keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for the actuarial valuation of this retirement law. As of June 30, 1973, and thereafter at the ends of periods not to exceed four years, the Judges’ Retirement System shall cause to be made an a…

When there is insufficient data upon which to establish mortality rates or other actuarial assumptions required to evaluate the obligations of the system, the board may adopt appropriate assumptions which are necessary, upon the advice and recommendation of the actuary. All compu…

The board may assess a county a reasonable amount to cover costs incurred because of the county’s failure to submit reports within 30 days of the date the reports are due. The payments of the assessments shall be credited to the Judges’ Retirement Fund. The board may charge inter…

(a) Whenever a person entitled to payment of a member’s contributions or any other benefit fails to claim the payment or cannot be located or a warrant in payment is canceled pursuant to Section 17070, the amount owed from the retirement fund shall be administered in accordance w…