Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(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…

(a) Sections 31662.6 and 31663 shall not apply to an assistant sheriff or a chief in a sheriff’s office who is a safety member and whose primary duties are administrative. (b) This section applies only to a county of the first class, as defined by Section 28020, as amended by Cha…

(a) Sections 31662.4, 31662.6, 31662.8, and 31663 shall not apply to a person who is an active safety member described in Section 31469.3 or 31470.4 if a physician employed or approved by the county certifies that the safety member is capable of performing his or her assigned dut…

(a) Except as provided in Section 31663.26, a safety member who has reached the applicable compulsory age of retirement, if any, or a safety member who has completed 10 years of continuous service and who has reached the age of 50, or a safety member who has completed 20 years of…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 31663.25, a safety member who has reached the applicable compulsory age of retirement, if any, or a safety member who is a full-time employee, has completed 10 years of service, has reached the age of 50, and has no service break which exceeds 12 month…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any county having a population in excess of 199,000 but less than 200,000 as determined by Section 28020 as amended in 1961, an undersheriff upon attaining the age of 70 shall thereafter be employed from year to year at the discretio…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the current service pension or the current service pension combined with the prior service pension is an additional pension for safety members purchased by the contributions of the county or district sufficient when added to t…

(a) This section may be made applicable in any county on the first day of the month after the board of supervisors of the county adopts, by majority vote, a resolution providing that this section shall become applicable in the county. (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of t…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a safety member who enters the system with credit for prior service and retires upon completion of 20 years of continuous service and a total of 25 years of service after attaining age 50 whose retirement allowance is less tha…

(a) This section may be made applicable in any county on the first day of the month after the board of supervisors of the county adopts, by majority vote, a resolution providing that this section shall become applicable in the county. (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of t…

This section shall apply in any county having a population in excess of 2,000,000. A safety member shall receive no credit for prior service subsequent to June 30, 1921, and prior to January 1, 1938, in calculating a retirement allowance pursuant to this article unless prior to J…

Any person who elects to become a safety member who was a former member of a retirement system established pursuant to Chapter 3 or Chapter 5 shall have his contributions to the retirement association for membership service prior to January 1, 1952, calculated by the same rates a…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a safety member may exercise the option of retiring upon completion of 25 years of service, and if such option is exercised, the safety member shall receive a retirement allowance equal to no less than 30 percent of his or…

If a member retires with credit for time during which he or she was not a safety member or a member of a system established pursuant to either Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 31900) or Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 32200), he or she shall receive for that time: (a) A reti…

(a) Retirement of a member 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’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, whichever is applicable. (b) The board may authorize the system administrato…

(a) The amount of compensation that is taken into account in computing benefits payable to any person who first becomes a member of the retirement system on or after July 1, 1996, or January 1, 1996, for systems operating on a calendar basis, shall not exceed the limitations in S…

A member who, on December 31, 1978, was a member of a retirement system under this chapter which imposed a mandatory retirement age less than age 70 applicable to that member may, notwithstanding the repeal of Section 31671 by the same act amending this section during the 1983 po…

(a) A member who has reached 70 years of age or a member who has completed 10 years of service and who has reached 55 years of age, or a member who has completed 30 years of service regardless of age, may be retired upon filing with the board a written application, setting forth …

(a) An employee who has reached 55 years of age has held a position in the county service for 10 years, and on the date of retirement is employed in a temporary, seasonal, intermittent, or part-time position in which the employee has received credit for five full years of service…

(a) An elective officer who filed a declaration with the board to become a member, pursuant to Section 31553, who has served two complete consecutive terms in an elective office, and who has reached the minimum age for retirement provided in Section 31672, may be retired upon fil…

A member of a county retirement system 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 a portion of the member’s membership in the county retirement system w…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, when any member of a retirement system of any other public agency becomes a member of a county retirement association, established pursuant to this chapter, as a result of the transfer to and assumption by the county of any fun…

Upon retirement for service a member is entitled to receive a retirement allowance which shall consist of: (a) His service retirement annuity. (b) His current service pension. (c) His prior service pension.

The service retirement annuity is an annuity which is the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated contributions at the time of his retirement.

The current service pension is a pension, purchased by the contributions of the county or district, equal to that portion of the annuity purchased by the accumulated normal contributions of the member.