Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Any member of the retirement system who elects pursuant to Section 31641.1 to make contributions and receive credit as service for time for which he or she claims credit because of public service shall contribute to the retirement fund, prior to the effective date of his or her r…

Regular interest computed at the current interest rate as used in subdivision (b) of Section 31641.2 shall mean that amount of interest which would have been credited to the account of the member on the amount to be deposited at the interest rates established for the system if th…

In Section 31641.2 compensation first earnable shall be that earnable by the member at the time of the commencement of his membership in the retirement system, except that if a member who, prior to January 1, 1952, was a member of any retirement system in the same county which wa…

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a member shall receive credit for employment in public service only for such service as the member is not entitled to receive a pension or retirement allowance from such public agency. The service for which the member elects to contrib…

Whenever a member is entitled to redeposit funds previously withdrawn from a retirement system and thereby becomes eligible to receive a pension or retirement allowance for the service for which the member was granted public service credit as authorized in Section 31641.1, regard…

A member who prior to his entrance into the retirement system held a position in the county service the tenure of which was such as to exclude him from membership, or a coroner, public administrator or coroner-public administrator who was excluded because of the means by which he…

“Interest at the current rate” means that amount of interest which would have been credited to the account of the member on the amount to be deposited at the interest rates established for the system if the contribution required by that section had been on deposit from the time h…

(a) A member described in Section 31470.4 who was in public service before becoming a member, and that service was terminated as a consequence of the closure, downsizing, or realignment of a federal military installation, may elect by written notice filed with the board to make c…

A member who returns to county service after having been on deferred status while rendering county service in a position excluded from membership, shall have the right to receive credit in the retirement association for all or any part of the county service he or she rendered dur…

An employee of a city who has become a county employee upon the assumption by the county of the functions of the city department in which he was employed, may, if he is not covered by the city under a contract with the Public Employees’ Retirement System, elect to receive credit …

If the member is unable to furnish the information necessary to establish his aggregate compensation for the period of service for which he seeks credit pursuant to Section 31641.5, then the rate of compensation applicable to him at the time he first became a member of this syste…

Any member who has elected to make contributions pursuant to this chapter by installment payments may, at any time prior to the effective date of his retirement, complete payment thereof by lump sum.

All contributions made by a member, pursuant to Sections 31641.1, 31641.2, 31641.3 and 31641.4 shall be considered to be, and shall be administered as, normal contributions but shall not be matched by the county upon retirement of the member.

Sections 31470.7, 31478, 31479, 31480, 31641.1, 31641.2, 31641.3, 31641.4, 31641.8, and 31641.9 may only be applicable in any county or district on the first day of the month after the governing board of such county or district adopts, by majority vote, a resolution providing tha…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, Section 31641. 9 shall not be applicable to any county subject to the provisions of Section 31676.1, 31676.11, 31676.12, 31676.13, 31676.14, or 31676.15.

(a) This section shall be applicable in the retirement system of any county of the 10th class, as defined by Sections 28020 and 28031, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, if the board of supervisors adopts, by majority vote, a resolution implementing this section.…

The following shall not be considered as breaking the continuity of service: (a) A temporary layoff because of illness or for purposes of economy, suspension, or dismissal, followed by reinstatement or re-employment within one year. (b) A leave of absence followed by reinstatemen…

Unless otherwise provided in the regulations of the board, “prior service” means service prior to the date of entry of a member into the retirement system.

In its regulations the board may provide what service shall constitute prior service. Such service may include employment which is not service as defined in Sections 31641 and 31642.

Except as provided in Sections 31641.5 or 31648 credit for prior service, whether interrupted or not, shall be granted to each person who has rendered such service as defined in or pursuant to this chapter, and who has become a member of the retirement system within one year afte…

Prior service includes service rendered for a district as defined by subdivisions (i) and (j) of Section 31468 at any time after the date of execution of the first contract between the county and the nonprofit corporation relative to the operation of one or more museums or after …

(a) A member who returns to active service following an uncompensated leave of absence on account of the member’s illness may receive service credit for the period of the absence upon the payment of the contributions that the member would have paid during that period, together wi…

A member who returns to active service following an uncompensated leave of absence on account of illness or injury arising out of and in the course of employment which exceeds 12 consecutive months and for which the member receives temporary disability benefits pursuant to the La…

(a) The board may grant a member who is subject to a temporary mandatory furlough the same service credit and compensation earnable or pensionable compensation to which the member would have been entitled in the absence of the temporary mandatory furlough. The board may condition…

(a) A member who wishes to apply for a nonservice-connected disability retirement allowance may, to the extent necessary to qualify for that allowance, receive service credit for a period of continuous, uncompensated leave immediately preceding the filing of the application upon …

A person is not entitled to credit as prior service for time during which he was not in service as defined in this chapter.

If any officer or employee not previously included within the field of membership of the association is brought within the field of membership or if any elected official chooses to come within the field of membership subsequent to the establishment of the association, he shall no…

In any county in which the board of supervisors has entered into an agreement as permitted by Section 20569.1, the governing body of the contracting agency from which the firemen were transferred or the governing body of the district to which the firemen were transferred may pay …

A member who is a full-time employee and returns within 12 months of the date of layoff to full-time service following a period of layoff commencing on or after January 1, 1981, but not to exceed 12 months, may receive service credit for the period of the absence, but not to exce…

In any county in which the board of supervisors has entered into an agreement as permitted by Section 20569.2, the governing body of the contracting agency from which the employees were transferred or the governing body of the district or the county service area to which the empl…

Any elective officer (a) who has filed a declaration of election to become a member of a county retirement association established pursuant to this chapter and (b) who rendered any county service after the effective date of the system so established and prior to the effective dat…

Any member who is an elective officer, and who has had a break in service, may receive credit for the previous service as current service, if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The member serves in the same office. (b) The service is not a basis for any other present or…

Any elective officer whose term of office expires at a time when the total period of his incumbency divided into months results in a fractional month greater than 20 days shall be deemed to have rendered service sufficient to receive credit for a full month provided that such off…

(a) This chapter shall comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) Chapter 43 (commencing with Section 4301) of Title 38 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time. Any member who was absent from county or district emplo…

Any employer who reemploys a member who is subject to the provisions of Chapter 43 (commencing with Section 4301) of Title 38 of the United States Code, shall, within 30 days after the date of that reemployment, provide information in writing as required by the board notifying th…

(a) Any member may redeposit in the retirement fund, prior to filing an application for retirement, by lump sum payment or by installment payments over a period of one year or for a longer time upon approval of the board, an amount equal to all of the accumulated normal contribut…

(a) Any member may redeposit in the retirement fund, prior to filing an application for retirement, by lump-sum payment or by installment payments over a period of one year or for a longer time upon approval of the board, an amount equal to all of the accumulated normal contribut…

(a) Any member of a retirement system established pursuant to this chapter who was previously a member of the same county retirement system and who thereafter became a member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System as a result of employment by a public agency contracting with …

Notwithstanding this article, the governing board of the county or district may elect to contribute for any member of this system who is absent from and reenters the service of the county or district pursuant to Section 31649 amounts equal to the contributions that would have bee…

Whenever, as a result of the resumption by the counties pursuant to Article XXVII of the Constitution of functions relating to the administration of aid to the aged and aid to the needy blind theretofore performed by the state, any person ceases to be employed by the state and is…

Any member may receive credit for war relocation absence if the member elects to pay and does pay prior to retirement into the retirement fund an amount equal to the contributions the member would have made to the fund on the member’s compensation earnable at the time of the abse…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any district established pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 40000) of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code, from extending retirement service credit pursuant to Section 40127 of the Public Utilities Code to any e…

Subject to Section 20588, whenever, as a result of the assumption by a county, fire authority, or district of firefighting or law enforcement functions performed by a public agency or the state subject to the Public Employees’ Retirement Law, any person ceases to be employed by a…

(a) An active member may elect, by written notice filed with the board, to make contributions pursuant to this section and to receive up to five years of service credit in the retirement system for additional retirement credit, if the member has completed at least five years of c…

This article shall apply in a county subject to the provisions of Sections 31676.1 and 31695.1.

(a) Retirement of a safety member in a county subject to the provisions of Section 31676.1, or of Section 31695.1, if applicable, who has met the requirements for age and service shall be made by the board pursuant to this article or pursuant to the California Public Employees’ P…

At the expiration of two years after a retirement system pursuant to this chapter becomes operative, or on January 1, 1954, whichever is later, every safety member except an elective officer, the sheriff and undersheriff, who has attained age 60 shall be retired forthwith. On the…

Two years after a retirement system established by this chapter becomes operative, a safety member except an elective officer, the sheriff and undersheriff, and the marshal appointed to serve the superior court within the county, shall be retired as of the first day of the calend…

Every safety member holding an elective office shall be retired at the end of the first term to which he or she is elected which expires on the date following his or her seventieth birthday, except that if the term expires within two years after the date on which a retirement sys…

After January 1, 1954, or two years after a retirement system established by this chapter becomes operative, whichever is later, a sheriff who is a safety member and not elective, and an undersheriff, who is a safety member shall be retired as of the first day of the calendar mon…