Title GOV — California Gov. Code

“Additional contributions” means contributions made by members in addition to normal contributions under Section 31627.

“Accumulated additional contributions” means the sum of all additional contributions standing to the credit of a member’s individual account and regular interest thereon.

“Accumulated contributions” means accumulated normal contributions plus any accumulated additional contributions standing to the credit of a member’s account.

(a) “District” means a district, formed under the laws of the state, located wholly or partially within the county other than a school district. (b) “District” also includes any institution operated by two or more counties, in one of which there has been adopted an ordinance plac…

(a) “Employee” means any officer or other person employed by a county whose compensation is fixed by the board of supervisors or by statute and whose compensation is paid by the county, and any officer or other person employed by any district within the county. (b) “Employee” inc…

(a) “County peace officer” means the sheriff and any officer or employee of the sheriff’s office of a county employed and qualifying as a constable or deputy constable or marshal or deputy marshal or deputy sheriff or equal or higher rank, irrespective of the duties to which that…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, “local prosecutor” means any one of the following: (1) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following criteria: (A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in the office of the district attorney. (B) His or her job…

“Safety member” means any person who is any of the following: (a) A member of a pension system established pursuant to either Chapter 4 or Chapter 5, who elects by written notice filed with the board, to become a safety member. (b) Any person employed by a county, subject to Sect…

“Safety member” means persons employed as probation officers, juvenile hall or juvenile home group counselors, and group supervisors who are primarily engaged in the control and custody of delinquent youths who must be detained under physical security in order not to be harmful t…

(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 executes a memorandum of understanding with the employee represen…

Law enforcement employees of a harbor improvement district are safety members subject to Article 6.8 (commencing with Section 31639) and Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 31662) of this chapter, and to such other provisions of this chapter as apply to safety members.

(a) In a county of the 18th class, as defined by Sections 28020 and 28039, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, the board of supervisors may meet and confer pursuant to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1)…

“Member” means any person included in the membership of the retirement association pursuant to Article 4, and includes safety members as defined in Sections 31469.3, 31470.2, 31470.4 and 31470.6, or any person who has elected in writing to come within the provisions of Article 9.

“Member” includes “county peace officer member” except in sections where county peace officer members are specifically excluded. Anything else in this act to the contrary notwithstanding, where there is a conflict with the special provisions pertaining to county peace officer mem…

Notwithstanding Section 31470.2, all welfare fraud investigators and administrators budgeted within Orange County shall be eligible, regardless of which county department actually supervises or funds them, and shall receive those benefits upon a majority vote of the board of supe…

Notwithstanding Section 31470.2, all welfare fraud investigators and administrators in counties of the 16th class, as described by Sections 28020 and 28037, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, shall be ineligible for safety membership, unless and until the board o…

Child support investigators and administrators in counties of the 16th class, as described by Section 28020 and 28037, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, are eligible. This section shall not be operative in any county until such time as the board of supervisors s…

Officers and employees whose function clearly fall within the scope of hazardous materials services are eligible. This section shall not be operative in any county until the time as the board of supervisors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority vote, make this section applic…

(a) Local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators are eligible. (b) Except as provided in subdivision (c) and notwithstanding Sections 31639.7 and 31639.75, past service as a general member shall be converted to safety service if the past serv…

(a) All sheriffs, undersheriffs, chief deputies sheriff, jailers, turnkeys, deputies sheriff, bailiffs, constables, deputies constable, motorcycle officers, aircraft pilots, heads and assistant heads of all divisions of the office of the sheriff, detectives and investigators in t…

(a) All sheriffs, undersheriffs, assistant sheriffs, chief deputy sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, jailers, turnkeys, deputy sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, deputy constables, motorcycle officers, aircraft pilots, detectives, and investigators in the office of the dist…

Clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers, court service officers, except in a county of the third class, as defined in Sections 28020 and 28024, and other employees who may have been appointed as deputies sheriff or deputies marshal but who do not perform the duties of any peace office…

All county foresters, county firewardens, deputies or assistant county foresters, deputies or assistant county firewardens, firefighters, fire apparatus engineers, fire prevention inspectors, forest firemen, fire patrolmen, aircraft pilots, and foremen assigned to fire suppressio…

Bookkeepers, stenographers, cooks, laborers, county fire protection district fire foremen, call firemen, and firefighters whose principal duties clearly do not fall within the scope of active fire suppression, even though the person is subject to occasional call, or is occasional…

(a) A permanent employee of a county having a population in excess of 500,000 whose principal duties consist of active protection, rescue, and rendition of aid or assistance to persons injured or imperiled in water areas at beaches and lakes, streams, dams, reservoirs, or other b…

The election by a member to receive credit for employment in public service or in county service pursuant to Section 31641.1 or 31641.5 does not make such person a member during any part of such public service or county service.

In cases of doubt as to whether a person is eligible to become a safety member, the board shall decide.

All public administrators, coroners and coroner-public administrators, whether compensated on a fee or salary basis, are eligible, except that the membership of such persons is subject to the approval of the board of supervisors.

“Pension” means payments for life derived from contributions made from funds controlled by the board of supervisors, or from funds of a district.

“Recognized retiree organization” means an organization in which a majority of the members of the organization are retired members of the system and which the board, upon request, has approved recognition.

“Regular interest” means interest at 21/2 percent a year until otherwise determined by the board compounded semiannually on June 30th and December 31st.

“Regular interest” or “interest” when used for purposes of computing deposits under this chapter, except as otherwise specifically provided, 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 interes…

“Retirement allowance” means the pension plus the annuity.

“Retirement association” means an association of all persons who may qualify as annuitants or beneficiaries pursuant to this chapter.

“Retirement fund” means the Employees Retirement Fund.

“Retirement system” means each of the systems created and established pursuant to this chapter or its predecessor. The retirement system for county employees created by Chapter 677 of the Statutes of 1937, as amended, is continued in existence under this chapter.

“Salary fund” means the fund from which salaries are ordinarily paid.

“Public agency” means the United States of America, this state, or any department or agency of either, or any county, or any city, which city or county is within this state, or any public corporation, municipal corporation, or public district, which public corporation, municipal …

“Public service” means service rendered as an officer or employee of a public agency for which service the officer or employee received compensation from the public agency and with respect to which he is not entitled to receive credit in any retirement system supported wholly or …

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 31479, an elective or appointive county official may receive credit for service rendered as a city council member even though that service was not compensated. (2) This section shall not be operative in any county until it is adopted by a majority …

“Public service” also means service rendered as an officer or employee of a department or agency of the District of Columbia for which the officer or employee received compensation and with respect to which he is not entitled to receive credit in any retirement system supported w…

“Public service” also means service in the merchant marine of the United States during the period of December 7, 1941, through August 15, 1945, whether or not the employee received compensation from the United States Government and with respect to which he or she is not entitled …

The provisions of this chapter, as they apply to retirement for service or disability, deferred retirement, and the death benefit, shall not be applicable to any member claiming public service pursuant to Section 31478 or to any member claiming service credit for uncompensated il…

An amendment either heretofore or hereafter made to this chapter, unless expressly stated otherwise, does not grant, take away, or otherwise affect the right to, or the amount of, any retirement allowance, or other benefit, of: (a) Any member who has retired or shall retire prior…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a participant in a deferred compensation plan established pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 18310) of Part 1 of Division 5 of Title 2 or pursuant to Article 1.1 (commencing with Section 53212) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Divi…

(a) Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in Section 20894, this section shall apply to all participants in retirement systems governed by this chapter. (b) A person shall not receive credit for the same service in two retirement systems supported wholly or in part by pu…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the governing body of a county or district has made a particular provision or provisions of this chapter applicable in such county or district through the adoption of an ordinance or resolution, such governing body may at any t…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the governing body of a county or district has made a particular provision or provisions of this chapter providing for increased benefits applicable to such county or district through the adoption of an ordinance or resolution,…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the governing body of a county or district has made a particular provision or provisions of this chapter providing for increased benefits applicable to such county or district through the adoption of an ordinance or resolution,…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the governing body of a county or district has made a particular provision or provisions of this chapter providing for increased benefits applicable to that county or district through the adoption of an ordinance or resolution,…