Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The board shall annually prepare a budget of the cost of maintaining the pension fund. For this purpose it may employ an actuary to assist it in preparing the budget and report, to the end that the system may be scientifically financed and administered.

The board shall cause an actuarial investigation and valuation of the system to be made immediately after the first year of operation and thereafter at not to exceed five-year intervals. The investigation shall be conducted under the supervision of an actuary and shall cover the …

After the receipt of the recommendation the board of supervisors shall adjust the rate of interest, the rates of contributions of members, and county appropriations, as it deems advisable, but shall not fix them so as to reduce the amount of individual benefits.

The board has charge and control of the funds of the system and shall administer them and shall order payments therefrom in accordance with this chapter.

The board shall invest and reinvest the funds of the system, and may from time to time sell and invest and reinvest the proceeds of any securities held by it and invest and reinvest all unappropriated income of the funds. All funds received by it not required for current disburse…

Whenever securities belonging to or held for the system are sold, the county treasurer shall deliver the securities sold upon receiving the proceeds and may execute any and all documents necessary to transfer title. The duties imposed upon the county treasurer are a part of his o…

For the purpose of providing and maintaining a fund to meet the payments of demands drawn for the payment of pensions and the expenses of the board, a trust fund account to be known as “county foresters, firewardens, and firemen’s retirement fund” shall be opened upon the books o…

All transfers or payments to the fund and all withdrawals and other cash transactions shall be accounted upon the books of the auditor and treasurer in and out of this fund in the same manner as county transactions.

All warrants drawn on the fund shall be signed by the treasurer and at least one other member of the board, who shall be designated by the board. No warrant is valid until it is countersigned, numbered, and recorded by the county auditor.

Payments provided for in this chapter shall be made monthly upon proper vouchers.

The normal rates of contribution of members shall be based on the age at the nearest birthday at the time of entrance into the system.

The normal rates of contribution shall be such as will provide an average annuity at the lowest age at which the respective members are eligible for service retirement equal to one-half of terminal salary, according to the tables adopted by the board.

Until revised pursuant to Sections 32268 and 32269, the rate of contribution of each member is that percentage of the salary actually paid to him, disregarding any portion in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) a month, shown in the following table according to age at the time …

The normal rate of contribution established for age 40 is the rate for any member who has attained a greater age before entrance into the system, and that established for age 21 is the rate for any member who enters the system at a lesser age.

The rate of contribution of any member shall apply only to so much of the salary actually paid to him, plus the monetary value as determined by the board of board, lodging, fuel, laundry, and other advantages of any nature furnished to him in payment for his services as does not …

Payment of salaries and wages less the contribution is full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for service rendered by the members during the period covered by such payment except the benefits afforded by this chapter.

Upon election by any person to come within this chapter any sums due him under any other system shall be paid to him as in the case of separation from the service, except as provided in Sections 32327, 32328, and 32329.

Any person electing to come within this chapter who elects to secure credit for prior service as a forester, firewarden, or fireman under this chapter, if he has to his credit in any other pension system a sum exceeding that necessary to entitle him to credit for such prior servi…

Any person electing to secure credit for prior service as a forester, firewarden, or fireman under this chapter who has to his credit in any other pension system a sum less than that necessary to entitle him to credit for such prior service, shall deposit in the retirement fund a…

Any person electing to come within this chapter may elect not to claim full credit for his prior service, but may elect to receive credit for only a fractional part of such prior service. In such event, he shall receive a refund or make deposit based on the amount to his credit i…

The board of supervisors shall determine and appropriate each year an amount sufficient, together with the contributions of the member to meet all of the current demands, including interest, against the fund. The board shall deposit monthly all contributions received in the count…

The board of supervisors may appropriate an additional amount, not to exceed the sum which would result from a tax levy upon all of the property in the county subject to taxation of one-half cent ($0.005) per one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation, to reduce or eliminat…

In the preparation and adoption of the county or county fire protection districts budget, the board of supervisors shall add to and include in the appropriation for salaries and wages an amount equal to the contributions to be made by members during the period for which the budge…

The county auditor shall certify to the board of supervisors at the end of each month the total amount of contributions paid by members to the fund, and the board of supervisors shall thereupon transfer a like amount from the appropriation to the fund.

All contributions and deposits shall bear simple interest at a rate to be fixed by the board with the approval of the board of supervisors, not to exceed 4 percent a year. Interest shall be credited semiannually on June 30th and December 31st to all contributions in the fund to t…

Any member of the system who is separated from the service of the county before retirement for any cause other than death or permanent disability, shall have paid to him all his contributions to the fund and one-half of all interest credited to his account.

Upon the death before retirement of any member for any cause other than an injury received during the performance of his duty or sickness caused by the discharge of such duty, the system shall pay to his legal representative, all his contribution to the fund and one-half of all i…

Any member may redeposit in the fund, within one year after his reentrance into the service, an amount equal to that which he withdrew at the last termination of his membership. The redeposit shall constitute reinstatement in this system, and he is entitled to all of the privileg…

Any member who enters the armed forces of the United States during war or national emergency proclaimed by the President or an act of Congress providing for peacetime induction or conscription and thereafter returns to active service as a forester, firewarden, or fireman within 9…

If any member is compelled to be absent from his employment because temporarily incapacitated for the performance of duty as the result of injury or disease occurring in and arising out of his employment, because of which he becomes entitled to workmen’s compensation, within 90 d…

Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, the board of supervisors and the board of supervisors as a governing body of the fire protection districts, may elect to contribute for each member of this system who has entered the armed forces of the United States after June 1, 1…

If the board of supervisors elects to contribute as provided in Section 32339: (a) Any such member who exercises or did exercise the right to contribute to the system during the period of military service shall have such contributions refunded. (b) Any such member who withdraws o…

When the compensation of a member is a factor in any computation to be made under this chapter, there shall be excluded from such computation for any period of service prior to the first day of the month after the effective date of this section, any compensation earned since the …

A member subject to the provisions of Section 32341, who, either before or after the effective date of the 1951 amendment to this section elects to make the payments provided for therein shall be deemed to have elected to make the payments provided for in Section 32341 as it now …

Whenever this chapter becomes operative in any county, the board shall order that any person who has been duly appointed, selected, or elected and qualified and has served as a forester, firewarden, or fireman for 20 years or more in the aggregate for which contributions provided…

Any person retiring for service shall receive a pension payable in equal monthly installments during his lifetime, equal to one-half of his terminal salary, not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250) a month. If a member is subject to the provisions of Section 32341 and does …

Any member shall be retired for disability regardless of age or amount of service, if incapacitated for the performance of duty as the result of an injury or disease occurring in and arising out of the course of his employment. Any member otherwise incapacitated for the performan…

If a member who has served 15 years or more develops heart trouble, it shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, in any proceeding under this chapter by the board and by the court, that such heart trouble is an injury or disease occurring in and arising out o…

Upon retirement of a member for service connected disability, he shall receive an annual pension, payable in equal monthly installments, equal to one-half of his terminal salary, not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250) a month. If a member is subject to the provisions of S…

Whenever any member is killed, or dies, as a result of any injury received during the performance of his duty, or from sickness caused by the discharge of such duty, or after retirement for service connected disability, an annual pension shall be paid in equal monthly installment…

Upon retirement of a member for nonservice connected disability, he shall receive an annual pension, payable in monthly installments, dependent upon the aggregate length of his service, as follows: After 10 years but less than 12 years of service, seventy-five dollars ($75) a mon…

The board may require any member retired for disability, under age 50, to undergo medical examination. The examination shall be made by a physician, appointed by the board, at the place of residence of the retired member or other place mutually agreed upon. Upon the basis of such…

If the board determines that the retired member is not so incapacitated, his pension shall be canceled forthwith, and pursuant to regulations adopted by the county for the reinstatement or reemployment of personnel, he is eligible for reinstatement to a position in the class in w…

If the pension is canceled, there shall be immediately paid to the member out of the fund, the amount of his accumulated contributions as of the date of his retirement and all interest credited to his account, less an amount equal to one-half of the pension payments made to him d…

If the retired member reenters county service and is eligible for membership in this system, his rate of contribution for future years is that established for his age at the time of reentry. He shall receive credit for all service rendered by him prior to the time of his disabili…

At any time before the first payment of any pension is made, a member or beneficiary may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent at that time of his pension in a lesser pension payable throughout his life and that of his widow, widower or beneficiary, if she or he survives him,…

Any member may file with the board a written statement nominating one or more beneficiaries, jointly, contingently, or both. If joint beneficiaries are named, the board may pay the amount due to any one of them, and the payment is a complete discharge.

If, after the effective date of this section a member who retired at any time after January 1, 1945, pays into the fund the difference between what he did contribute and what he would have contributed had Section 32322 always read as it now reads, and also pays the interest which…

A city may purchase, lease, receive, hold, and enjoy real and personal property, and control and dispose of it for the common benefit.

A city may acquire by eminent domain any property necessary to carry out any of its powers or functions.