Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a board of supervisors or the governing body of a district may, by resolution, ordinance, contract, or contract amendment under this chapter, without a change in benefits, require that members pay all or part of the contributions of a member or …

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a board of supervisors or the governing body of a district may require that members pay 50 percent of the normal cost of benefits. However, that contribution shall be no more than 14 percent above the applicable normal …

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

The normal rates of contribution of safety members shall be based on age at the nearest birthday at the time of entrance into the retirement system. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, separate rates of contribution for male and female safety memb…

The normal rates of contributions shall be such as will provide an average annuity at age 50 equal to one one-hundredth of the final compensation of safety members, according to the tables adopted by the board of supervisors, for each year of service rendered after entering the s…

Instead of the normal rates of contribution required by Section 31639.25 the board may, upon actuarial advice, establish a single rate of contributions applicable to all persons becoming members after this section is made operative in that county by the board. However, this rate …

Until revised pursuant to Sections 31453 and 31454, the rate of contribution of each safety member is that percentage of his or her earnable compensation shown in the following tables according to age at the time of entry into the retirement system: Age Percentage 18 ............…

The normal rate of contribution shall be such as will provide an average annuity at age 50 equal to one two-hundredth of the final compensation of safety members according to the table adopted by the board of supervisors for each year’s service rendered after entering the system.…

(a) If a member not previously within the field of membership as a safety member is brought within such field of safety membership by amendment to this chapter, he or she may receive credit as a safety member for all or any part of the time during which his or her duties would ha…

A safety member not previously within the field of membership as a safety member may receive not more than five years of credit as a safety member for all or any part of the time during which he or she was a general member by paying into the retirement fund by lump sum or by inst…

Notwithstanding Section 31639.7, a safety member described in subdivision (b) of Section 31470.2 may receive credit as a safety member for all or any part of the time during which he or she was not within the field of membership as a safety member to the extent and subject to the…

The additional contributions of such members shall be paid by regular monthly salary deductions in the amount specified by the member, but in no case less than six dollars ($6) per month. The total amount due shall be paid prior to the effective date of his death or retirement, e…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions in this chapter, in any county which has adopted Section 31676.1, 31676.11, 31676.12, 31676.13, 31676.14, or 31676.15 the board of supervisors may agree to pay any portion of the safety members’ normal contributions to the system. All cont…

In any county of the ninth class, as defined by Sections 28020, and 28030, 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 with a recognized employee organization which represents county empl…

(a) This section shall only apply to the retirement system of Contra Costa County and only if the board of supervisors of that county adopts, by majority vote, a resolution making this section applicable in the county. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of supe…

“County service” means the employment of a person by a county, district, municipal court, or superior court.

Where service for which a member receives credit, either prior to or during membership, is on a tenure which is temporary, seasonal, intermittent, or part time only, the member shall receive credit as continuous service for that proportion of the time he or she held the position …

(a) A member of a retirement system shall not receive credit for service or contributions for credit for service in violation of the prohibitions provided in Section 23007.5 or 50033. (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit an elective officer from purchasing service credit pu…

“Service” means uninterrupted employment of any person appointed or elected for that period of time: (a) For which deductions are made from his earnable compensation from the county or district for such service while he is a member of the retirement association. (b) In military s…

In any county of the eighth or ninth class as established in Sections 28020, 28029 and 28030 as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, the board of supervisors may provide by ordinance that each member shall be credited, at the rate of one day for each one day earned, w…

In any county of the third class as established in Section 28024, the board of supervisors may provide by ordinance that members specified in the ordinance shall be credited, for up to the full amount of sick leave accumulated as of the date of their retirement, and that sick lea…

In any county the board of supervisors may provide by ordinance that members specified in the ordinance shall be credited, for up to 100 percent of sick leave accumulated as of the date of their retirement, and that sick leave credit shall be in addition to service credit. The ad…

(a) When the board of supervisors, by resolution, determines that because of an impending curtailment of service or change in the manner of performing service, savings of money, or other economic benefit resulting to the county, the best interests of the county would be served, a…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 31641.04 or any other provision of this part, for only the 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, and 1998–99 fiscal years, when the board of supervisors, by resolution, determines that because of an impending curtailment of service or change in the manne…

A member who was in public service before becoming a member may elect by written notice filed with the board to make contributions pursuant to Section 31641.2 and to receive credit in the retirement system for all allowed public service time. Credit for part-time service shall be…

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…

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…