Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) A member shall be retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has attained 50 years of age and is credited with five years of state service, except as provided in Sections 7522.20, 21061, 21062, and 21074. (b) For purposes of this section…

(a) A local safety member, other than one subject to Section 21362 or 21362.2, shall be retired for service upon the member’s written application to the board if the member has attained the age of 55 years, and is credited with five years of state service. (b) Subdivision (a) doe…

Notwithstanding Section 21061, a local safety member to whom Section 21061 applies shall be retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has attained age 50 and is credited with five years of state service. However, if the member retires befor…

A member may request a meeting, to be conducted by the member’s employer, at which the employer shall explain to the member the elements of the member’s past or current compensation that have been or will be reported to the board as compensation earnable. The information provided…

(a) Effective January 1, 1985, there shall be an alternative level of benefits available to the following state miscellaneous members: (1) members who are excluded from the definition of state employee in subdivision (c) of Section 3513; (2) members employed by the executive bran…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, a person who, on or after January 1, 2000, becomes a state miscellaneous or state industrial member of the system because the person (1) is first employed by the state, (2) returns to employment with the state from a break …

(a) A member who is subject to Section 21076, 21076.5, or 21077 may be credited at no cost with all previous state miscellaneous or state industrial service eligible to be credited under Second Tier benefits. A member who is entitled to service credit under this section shall app…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, Sections 21076, 21076.5, and 21077 shall not apply to service with the California National Guard or service as a National Guard member regardless of any prior membership status or previous election made.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), persons who first become state miscellaneous or state industrial members of the system on or after July 1, 1991, and who are (1) excluded from the definition of state employee…

(a) A member who elects to be subject to Section 21076 shall be credited at no cost with all creditable previous state miscellaneous or state industrial service after the member is credited with one year of service under Section 21076. A member who was subject to Section 21076, w…

(a) A member who elects prior to January 1, 2000, to receive service credit under Section 21353, as authorized by subdivision (c) of Section 21070, for time during which he or she was subject to Section 21077, shall contribute in a lump sum or by installments, over that period an…

(a) Effective January 1, 2000, a member who elects to receive service credit under Section 21354.1, as authorized by Section 21073.7, for time during which the member received service credit subject to Section 21076 or 21077, shall deposit an amount equal to any accumulated contr…

A state Second Tier member, who meets the eligibility definition prescribed in subdivision (c) of Section 21071 may elect to be subject to Section 21353.5 while he or she is in the employment of the state. Upon becoming subject to Section 21353.5, the active member may elect, pri…

(a) The election provided to eligible members pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 21071, to be subject to the service retirement formula prescribed in Section 21353.5, shall be subject to conditions to be established and communicated by the board. (b) The election provided to …

(a) A member subject to the Second Tier benefits provided in Section 21076 or 21077 who is employed by the state on or after January 1, 2000, may make an irrevocable election, to be filed with the board, to be subject to the First Tier benefits provided in Section 21354.1 and to …

(a) A state member who became subject to the Second Tier shall be retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has attained age 55 and is credited with 10 years of state service. (b) A state member who elected coverage under Section 21077, sha…

Notwithstanding Section 20340, a person who is subject to Section 21076, 21076.5, or Section 21077 ceases to be a member if he or she has less than 10 years of service credit and no accumulated contributions in the retirement fund at the time of termination of service, except a m…

(a) The service retirement allowance for a state miscellaneous or state industrial member who has elected the benefits of this section is a pension equal to the fraction of one-hundredth of the member’s final compensation set forth opposite the member’s age at retirement, taken t…

(a) The service retirement allowance for a state miscellaneous or state industrial member who first becomes a member on or after January 1, 2013, who has elected the benefits of this section is a pension equal to the fraction of one-hundredth of the member’s final compensation se…

(a) The service retirement allowance for a state miscellaneous or state industrial member who elects to be subject to this section shall be: the sum of the allowance for service rendered under the Second Tier retirement formula, computed pursuant to Section 21076, added to the al…

(a) The governing body of a contracting agency may establish a two-tiered retirement system developed by the board . (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to make a two-tiered retirement system a matter for bargaining pursuant to provisions of law relating to employer-employee …

(a) Contracting agencies as defined in Section 20022, some or all of whose employees are miscellaneous members included in the federal system, may amend their contracts with the board to provide an alternate level of benefits pursuant to this article. The alternate level of benef…

(a) The normal rate of contribution for a local miscellaneous member subject to this article shall be 2 percent of compensation paid the member. A contracting agency may pay all or a portion of the member’s normal contributions, pursuant to Section 20691. (b) Notwithstanding subd…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a local miscellaneous member subject to this article may be retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has attained age 55 and is credited with five years of service. (b) Any person who was a member…

(a) The service retirement allowance for a local miscellaneous member subject to this article shall be calculated in accordance with Section 21100. (b) “Final compensation” for purposes of determining any benefits payable under this part for any local miscellaneous member service…

(a) Participation in the plan afforded by this article shall be made available to any employee who was included in the federal system and who was a member of this system prior to the effective date of the employer’s contract amendment to be subject to this article. The election s…

The employer contribution rate of a contracting agency subject to this article shall be determined by the board as otherwise provided by this part.

(a) The monthly allowances payable to members based on service subject to this article shall be annually adjusted pursuant to Section 21329. (b) The percentage of the amount of his or her retirement allowance as it was at his or her death payable based on service credited to him …

The disability retirement pension for local miscellaneous service subject to this article shall be one of the following: (a) Ninety percent of the factor applicable at age 65 as set forth in Section 21094 times final compensation multiplied by the number of years of service credi…

This article shall not apply to a contracting agency nor its employees until, first, it is agreed to in a written memorandum of understanding entered into by an employer and representatives of employees and, second, the contracting agency elects to be subject to it by amendment t…

(a) The service retirement allowance for a local miscellaneous member who is subject to this article is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuity that is derived from the accumulated normal contributions of t…

It is the intent of the Legislature that reduced worktime for partial service retirement may, at the discretion of a public agency employer, be made available to public agency employees eligible pursuant to Section 21111 who do not desire to work standard working hours on a full-…

Any public agency employee, who is a local member of this system working standard hours on a full-time basis, and who is eligible to retire pursuant to Section 21118, may elect to participate in reduced worktime for partial service retirement pursuant to Sections 21110 through 21…

“Reduced worktime for partial service retirement” means any arrangement of worktime agreeable to both the public agency employer and the employee that aggregates no less, on a monthly basis, than a 20 percent reduction nor more than a 60 percent reduction from what would in that …

(a) A public agency employee who voluntarily reduces his or her worktime for partial service retirement pursuant to Sections 21110 through 21115, and who subsequently returns to a full-time work schedule pursuant to the policy of the public agency employer, shall be ineligible fo…

All persons employed in reduced worktime positions for partial service retirement pursuant to Sections 21110 through 21115 shall receive proportionally reduced compensation and, on a pro rata basis, all benefits customarily available to full-time employees of a public agency in s…

A public agency employer may elect to make Sections 21110 through 21115 applicable to the agency and if it does so, the public agency employer shall establish other personnel policies or guidelines required for the administration of the reduced worktime for partial retirement pro…

Except as otherwise expressly provided, and notwithstanding Section 20060, state miscellaneous members participating in reduced worktime for partial service retirement pursuant to Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 19996.30) of Chapter 7 of Part 2.6 or local members participati…

A state miscellaneous member or industrial member, other than a university member, shall be partially retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has elected to participate in partial service retirement pursuant to Article 1.7 (commencing wit…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is solely a National Guard member shall not be partially retired for service, nor shall service with the California National Guard be used to qualify for benefits as described in Section 21117.

(a) A local member shall be partially retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has elected to participate in partial service retirement pursuant to Sections 21110 through 21115, provided he or she has attained the applicable normal retirem…

Article 3 (commencing with Section 21310) of Chapter 13, relating to cost-of-living adjustments, shall not apply to an employee who is participating in reduced worktime for partial service retirement.

Section 21546 shall apply to any member while in state service in partial service retirement.

(a) Every patrol member subject to Section 21362, 21362.2, or 21363.1, as applicable, shall be retired on the first day of the calendar month succeeding that in which he or she attains the age of 60 years. (b) This section shall be operative April 1, 2019.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local contracting agency may amend its contract to fix a mandatory retirement age for local safety members attaining the age of 60 when the agency also has established that the age of a safety member is a bona fide occupational qualif…

Every state safety member shall be retired on the first day of the calendar month succeeding that in which he or she attains age 65. Every member who has attained age 65 when he or she becomes a state safety member shall be retired on the first day of the following month. This se…

(a) A member incapacitated for the performance of duty shall be retired for disability pursuant to this chapter if he or she is credited with five years of state service, regardless of age, unless the person has elected to become subject to Section 21076, 21076.5, or 21077. (b) A…

(a) Any patrol, state safety, state industrial, state peace officer/firefighter, or local safety member incapacitated for the performance of duty as the result of an industrial disability shall be retired for disability, pursuant to this chapter, regardless of age or amount of se…

Application to the board for retirement of a member for disability may be made by: (a) The head of the office or department in which the member is or was last employed, if the member is a state member other than a university member. (b) The university if the member is an employee…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an employer may not separate because of disability a member otherwise eligible to retire for disability but shall apply for disability retirement of any member believed to be disabled, unless the member waives the right to retire for di…