Title GOV, California Gov. Code

The expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation of plans for meeting any emergency caused by a flood, fire, earthquake, pestilence, tornado, or other act of God which may cause extraordinary loss of life or destruction of property are county charges. (Added by Stats. 1947, C…

Every sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose under the direction of the board of supervisors or declared to be such is a county charge. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

The actual and necessary expenses incurred in the drafting of a county charter by a board of freeholders, when such expenses are authorized by the board of supervisors, are county charges. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 398.)

This chapter may be cited as the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

The purpose of this chapter is to recognize a public obligation to county and district employees who become incapacitated by age or long service in public employment and its accompanying physical disabilities by making provision for retirement compensation and death benefit as ad…

The right of a person to a pension, annuity, retirement allowance, return of contributions, the pension, annuity, or retirement allowance, any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under this chapter, the money in the fund created or continued under …

(a) The board may comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member or beneficiary of a retired member entitled to a retirement allowance or benefit under this chapter or the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, author…

(a) The board shall comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member or beneficiary of a retired member entitled to a retirement allowance or benefit under this chapter or the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, auth…

(a) (1) This section applies only to a retirement system in a county of the first class, as described in Sections 28020 and 28022. (2) The board shall comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member or beneficiary of a retired member en…

Upon receipt of proof, satisfactory to the board, that a warrant or check drawn in payment of a retirement allowance or in payment of any other account due from the retirement system has been lost or destroyed, the treasurer or other entity authorized by the board upon request of…

(a) Upon the death of any member after retirement, any retirement allowance earned but not yet paid to the member shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be paid to the member’s designated beneficiary. (b) Upon the death of any person receiving a survivor’s allowance u…

(a) An actuarial valuation shall be made within one year after the date on which any system established under this chapter becomes effective, and thereafter at intervals not to exceed three years. The valuation shall be conducted under the supervision of an actuary and shall cove…

Notwithstanding Section 31587, and in accordance with Section 31453 or 31510.1, the board may determine county or district contributions on the basis of a normal contribution rate which shall be computed as a level percentage of compensation which, when applied to the future comp…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board of retirement may, at the request of the board of supervisors, adopt a funding period of 30 years to amortize unfunded accrued actuarial obligations, as determined by their actuary or by an actuary employed by the boa…

(a) The board of supervisors shall, not later than 90 days after the beginning of the immediately succeeding fiscal year, adjust the rates of interest, the rates of contributions of members, and county and district appropriations in accordance with the recommendations of the boar…

(a) The independent assumptions and calculations of an actuary contained in the actuarial valuation required by Section 31453 shall not be subject to the “meet and confer” provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act; however, it is recognized that those provisions require that the …

In any county subject to the provisions of Section 31676.1, 31676.11, 31676.12, or 31695.1 the board of supervisors may, by vote entered in the minutes of the board, make an additional appropriation sufficient to fund over a period of 30 years any deficit which may result to the …

Whenever, in any county subject to the provisions of Section 31676.1 the board of supervisors makes any additional appropriations pursuant to Section 31454.5, the governing body of every district, including the board of supervisors where it is the governing body, also shall make …

The Legislature affirms the ruling of Mijares v. Orange County Employees’ Retirement System (2019) 32 Cal.App.5th 316, with respect to a board’s plenary authority to recommend adjustments to county and district contributions as necessary to ensure the appropriate funding of the s…

Unless the context otherwise requires, or unless superseded by any provision of the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, the definitions and general provisions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 247,…

(a) It is unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Make, or cause to be made, any knowingly false material statement or material representation, to knowingly fail to disclose a material fact, or to otherwise provide false information with the intent to use it, or all…

“Actuarial equivalent” means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted by the board of supervisors and regular interest thereon. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

“Annuity” means payment for life derived from contributions made by a member. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

“Beneficiary” means any person in receipt of a pension, annuity, retirement allowance, death benefit, or any other benefit. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

If, after December 31, 1957, and either before or after retirement a member dies leaving a spouse and has not designated a beneficiary, and, prior to the payment of any portion of the death benefit, such spouse files with the board written evidence, satisfactory to the board, tha…

(a) A member’s ex-spouse who is receiving or is entitled to receive payments from the system, including a portion of the surviving spouse’s allowance, pursuant to an order of the court dividing the community property interest in the member’s retirement allowance may designate one…

(a) A member’s ex-spouse who is receiving or is entitled to receive payments from the system, including a portion of the surviving spouse’s allowance, pursuant to an order of the court dividing the community property interest in the member’s retirement allowance may designate one…

(a) In a county in which a board of investments has been established pursuant to Section 31520.2: (1) As used in Sections 31453, 31453.5, 31454, 31454.1, 31454.5, 31472, 31588.1, 31589.1, 31591, 31592.3, 31594, 31595.1, 31595.9, 31596, 31596.1, 31601.1, 31607, 31611, 31616, 31625…

(a) In a county in which a board of investments has been established pursuant to Section 31520.2: (1) As used in Sections 31453, 31453.5, 31454, 31454.1, 31454.5, 31472, 31588.1, 31589.1, 31591, 31592.3, 31594, 31595.1, 31595.9, 31596, 31596.1, 31601.1, 31607, 31610, 31611, 31612…

“Compensation” means the remuneration paid in cash out of county or district funds, plus any amount deducted from a member’s wages for participation in a deferred compensation plan established pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 18310) of Part 1 of Division 5 of Title …

(a) (1) “Compensation earnable” by a member means the average compensation as determined by the board, for the period under consideration upon the basis of the average number of days ordinarily worked by persons in the same grade or class of positions during the period, and at th…

(a) This section applies only to a county of the first class, as defined by Section 28020, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, and Section 28022, as amended by Chapter 43 of the Statutes of 1961. (b) Notwithstanding Sections 31460 and 31461, neither “compensation”…

“Compensation earnable” by a public administrator, coroner or coroner-public administrator member compensated by means of fees means the average compensation as determined by the board, for the period under consideration, upon the basis of the average amount of fees received each…

(a) The average compensation during any period of service as a member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, a member of a retirement system established under this chapter in another county, a member of the State Teachers’ Retirement System, or a member of a retirement syste…

(a) This section applies only to a county of the first class, as defined by Section 28020, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, and Section 28022, as amended by Chapter 43 of the Statutes of 1961. (b) Notwithstanding Sections 31460 and 31461, neither “compensation”…

(a) This section applies only to a county of the first class, as defined by Section 28020. (b) “Compensation earnable” in a county of the first class shall include only those items of remuneration specifically included as a result of the court-approved settlement in (1) the conso…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, salary bonuses or any other compensation incentive payments for regular duties or for additional services outside regular duties received under the program known on April 1, 1997, as the Executive and Unclassified Management Operational…

(a) “Compensation earnable” shall not include overtime premium pay other than premium pay for hours worked within the normally scheduled or regular working hours that are in excess of the statutory maximum workweek or work period applicable to the employee under Section 201 and f…

(a) “Final compensation” means the average annual compensation earnable by a member during any three years elected by a member at or before the time the member files an application for retirement, or, if the member fails to elect, during the three years immediately preceding thei…

(a) For a member who is subject to the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (Article 4 (commencing with Section 7522) of Chapter 21 of Division 7 of Title 1) for all or any portion of their membership in the county retirement system, “final compensation” as def…

(a) (1) “Final compensation” means the average annual compensation earnable by a member during any year elected by a member at or before the time he or she files an application for retirement, or, if he or she fails to elect, during the year immediately preceding his or her retir…

In any county subject to the provisions of Section 31462.1, every retirement allowance, optional death allowances, or annual death allowance, payable to or on account of any member, granted prior to the effective date of Section 31462.1 in such county, shall be recalculated as th…

(a) “Final compensation” for members whose service is on a tenure that is temporary, seasonal, intermittent, or for part time only means one-third of the total compensation earnable earned for that period of time during which the member rendered the equivalent of three years of f…

(a) For members participating in the designated plans who are employed by the County of Los Angeles on or after October 1, 2000, and who retire or die on or after July 1, 2001, “final compensation” means the average annual compensation earnable by a member during any year elected…

“Normal contributions” means contributions by a member at the normal rates of contributions, but does not include additional contributions by a member. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)