California

Government Code

21,845 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 20173 — Costs of administration of this system shall be paid from funds appropriated for interest income from the retirement fund.
• § 20174 — Interest earned on any cash deposit in a bank by the Treasurer and income on other assets constituting a part of the fund shall be credited to the fund as received.
• § 20175 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds in the reserve against deficiencies shall not be used to pay any employers’ contribution required by this chapter to be paid by the state, any school
• § 20176 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds in the retirement fund shall be expended for any purpose other than the cost of administration of this system, investments for the benefit of this
• § 20177 — The board shall deposit monthly in the State Treasury to the credit of the retirement fund all amounts received by it under this part.
• § 20178 — (a) The board shall credit all contributions of members in the retirement fund with interest at an interest crediting rate of 6 percent compounded at each June 30.
• § 20190 — The board has exclusive control of the investment of the retirement fund.
• § 20191 — The board may itself make any investment authorized by law or sell any security, obligation, or real property in which moneys in the retirement fund are invested, by affirmative vote of at least seven
• § 20191.5 — (a) All investment transaction decisions made during a closed session pursuant to paragraph (16) of subdivision (c) of Section 11126 shall be by rollcall vote entered into the minutes of that meeting.
• § 20192 — In addition to the other investments authorized by this article, the board may invest in real estate and leases thereof and improvements thereon for business or residential purposes as an investment f
• § 20193 — The board may invest the money in the retirement fund in real property or improvements thereon or to be constructed thereon when the real property or improvements are acquired or to be made by or for
• § 20194.5 — In addition to the other investments authorized by this article, the board may invest in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds, as defined in Section 26054 of the Public Resources Code.
• § 20195 — (a) The board may select, purchase, or acquire in the name of the system, the fee or any lesser interest in real property, improved or unimproved, and may construct or remodel, and equip, an office bu
• § 20196 — The board may contract with the Department of General Services or any other state department for assistance and supervision in the acquisition of real property and the construction thereon of building
• § 20197 — All buildings and improvements constructed by the board under this article may contain space in excess of the immediate requirements of the board that, until needed, may be leased by the board upon th
• § 20198 — Any building or improvement constructed by the board under this article shall be subject to the supervision of the board in accordance with rules and regulations established by the board with the assi
• § 20199 — The board shall establish a building account for the transfer of money that is continuously appropriated for that purpose from the retirement fund for the cost of the acquisition of real property, the
• § 202 — The state may imprison or confine for the protection of the public peace or health or of individual life or safety.
• § 20200 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may establish a program utilizing the retirement fund to assist system members, through financing, to obtain homes throughout the United State
• § 20201 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this section be available to assist members in obtaining homes throughout the United States.
• § 20202 — The board may, subject to and consistent with its fiduciary duty, establish a program utilizing the retirement fund to assist currently employed members and annuitants who are victims of a natural dis
• § 20203 — Notwithstanding any other law, the board may enter into security loan agreements with respect to securities in which the board is authorized by law to invest subject to all of the following conditions
• § 20206 — The board shall employ investment counsel on its staff or on a consulting basis or trust companies or trust departments of bands to render service in connection with the board’s investment program.
• § 20207 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that changing economic conditions and increasing complexity in the investment market make it necessary and desirable that this system obtain the best possible in
• § 20208 — Upon a finding by the board that necessary investment expertise is not available within existing civil service classifications, and with the approval of the State Personnel Board, the board may contra
• § 20209 — The board shall, pursuant to the state civil service statutes, either contract with, or establish and fill a full-time position for, a person who is experienced and knowledgeable in corporate manageme
• § 20210 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall, by contract, retain not less than two separate individual investment advisers.
• § 20220 — The board shall, on the request of a board of retirement of a county retirement system supply information and data necessary for administration of that system as it is affected by membership in and se
• § 20221 — Each state agency, school employer, and the chief administrative officer of a contracting agency or any other person who its governing body may designate shall furnish all of the following: (a) Immedi
• § 20221.5 — Every state agency, school employer, or contracting agency shall, upon request from the board, provide information on its employees who are not enrolled as members of the system to assist the board to
• § 20222 — The comptroller of the university, or any other official who the university may designate, shall furnish monthly reports to the board showing changes in the status of all members employed by the unive
• § 20222.5 — (a) The board may, during the course of an audit, require each state employer, school employer, including each school district represented by a school employer, and contracting agency, to provide info
• § 20223 — Each employee shall file with the board information affecting his or her status as a member as the board may require.
• § 20224 — If it is impracticable for the board to determine from the records the length of service, compensation, or age of any member, or if any member refuses or fails to give the board a statement of his or
• § 20225 — (a) In addition to other records and accounts, the board shall keep records and accounts necessary to compute at any time: (1) The total accumulated contributions of members.
• § 20226 — The records and accounts required under Section 20225 shall not include the contributions made by the state or contracting agencies with respect to the survivor allowances provided for in Article 3 (c
• § 20227 — The actuary shall cause to be published, as of the date of the investigation and valuation made pursuant to Section 20131, a financial statement showing an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabil
• § 20228 — The board shall annually employ a certified public accountant, who is not in public employment, to audit the financial statements of this system.
• § 20229 — (a) The board, notwithstanding Section 10231.
• § 20230 — (a) Data filed with the board by or on behalf of any member, retired member, beneficiary, or annuitant is confidential, and an individual record shall not be divulged by any official or employee havin
• § 20231 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Employment Development Department shall disclose to the board information in its possession relating to the earnings of any person who is receiving a di
• § 20232 — As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year the board shall file with the Governor and the Legislature a report of its financial statements and investments for the fiscal year.
• § 20235 — (a) The board shall submit a review of this system’s assets to the Legislature on a semiannual basis.
• § 20236 — (a) The board shall provide the Legislature with an analysis of the asset and liability implications of each bill that would affect the investment strategy of this system, the funding of this system,
• § 20250 — The provisions of this article shall be deemed to create a right of subrogation only to amounts paid as disability retirement allowances and special death benefits.
• § 20251 — As used in this article, “state fund” means the State Compensation Insurance Fund.
• § 20252 — If benefits are payable under this part because of an injury to or the death of a member and the injury or death is the proximate consequence of the act of a person other than his or her employer (the
• § 20253 — The board may contract with the state fund or the Attorney General for the recovery on behalf of this system of any amounts that the board might recover from third persons under this article or Chapte
• § 20254 — Any amount recovered by way of subrogation by the employer, workers’ compensation insurer or this system shall be applied first to the amounts that the employer or its insurer has paid or become oblig
• § 20255 — Actions brought by the board under this article shall be commenced within three years after the liability of this system to pay benefits is fixed.
• § 20260 — All computations, payments, and other acts heretofore made or done by the board or its officers and employees are hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated.
• § 20280 — This article does not apply to persons expressly excluded from membership in this system by Article 2 (commencing with Section 20300) and Article 3 (commencing with Section 20320).
• § 20281 — All members of the retirement system immediately prior to the time this part becomes operative continue to be members of this system.
• § 20281.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 20281, a person who becomes a state miscellaneous member or state industrial member of the system on or after the effective date of this section because the person is first
• § 20282 — All officers, warrant officers, and enlisted persons who after October 1, 1961, are placed on full-time active duty with the office of the Adjutant General, pursuant to Sections 142, 321, 340 and 551,
• § 20283 — (a) Any employer that fails to enroll an employee into membership when he or she becomes eligible, or within 90 days thereof, when the employer knows or can reasonably be expected to have known of tha
• § 20284 — When any person who is an employee of the state within the meaning of Section 20028 is assigned to the performance of work for which his or her compensation is paid, pursuant to statute or duly author
• § 20285 — Any employee, who was a state member in employment in a function at the time of the assumption of the function by a city and county and became a local member on the date of the assumption and in emplo
• § 20300 — The following persons are excluded from membership in this system: (a) Inmates of state or public agency institutions who are allowed compensation for the service they are able to perform.
• § 20301 — Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who on October 1, 1963, is employed by the university, and is a member of any retirement system maintained by the university, or who after that
• § 20303 — (a) Persons who are members of any other retirement or pension system supported wholly or in part by funds of the United States government, any state government, or any political subdivision thereof a
• § 20304 — Notwithstanding Sections 20303 and 20894, nothing shall act to prohibit the receipt of credit in this system, nor the payment of benefits relating thereto, for service that is also being credited in t
• § 20305 — (a) An employee whose appointment or employment contract does not fix a term of full-time, continuous employment in excess of six months is excluded from this system unless: (1) He or she is a member
• § 20306 — (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 20305, an employee participating in this system, other than a local safety member, who is credited with less than five years of state se
• § 20309 — (a) A member of the system described in subdivision (b) who subsequently is employed to perform service subject to coverage by the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, may e
• § 20309.5 — (a) Any person who is a member of the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan and who subsequently became employed, on or after July 1, 1991, and who continues to be employed by
• § 20309.7 — (a) A person who was employed by a school employer before January 1, 2018, in a position that includes activities that meet the definition of creditable service under Section 22119.
• § 20320 — (a) A person directly appointed by the Governor, without the nomination of any officer or board, or directly appointed by the Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, Controller, Secretary of State, Tre
• § 20321 — Persons appointed to the office of the Adjutant General or Assistant Adjutant General after October 1, 1961, shall have rights to membership as provided in this article for other persons appointed by
• § 20322 — (a) An elective officer is excluded from membership in this system unless the officer files with the board an election in writing to become a member.
• § 20323 — For the purposes of this section “veteran” means a member of the Veterans’ Home of California.
• § 20324 — (a) An employee of the Senate or the Assembly, or the respective committees thereof, whose salaries or wages are paid from the Senate Operating Fund or the Assembly Operating Fund or the Operating Fun
• § 20325 — (a) A county superintendent of schools, a school district, a community college district, or a contracting agency, whose respective resolution or contract contains an election to be subject to this sec
• § 20326 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 20305, officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the California National Guard who are not members pursuant to Section 20282 are excluded from membership in thi
• § 20327 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a National Guard member may, at any time and on a prospective basis, cancel his or her election of membership in this system by filing a written n
• § 20340 — A person ceases to be a member: (a) Upon retirement, except while participating in reduced worktime for partial service retirement.
• § 20341 — When any state member is charged by indictment with the commission of any felony involving the accepting or giving, or offering to accept or give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortio
• § 20342 — Until his or her return to state service any member absent on military service may resign from this system.
• § 20343 — Notwithstanding Section 21259, a person ceases to be a member for any portion of his or her service as an elected public officer that is forfeited pursuant to Section 1243.
• § 20350 — Notwithstanding Section 20638, if a member on deferred retirement from this system is eligible to retire for service from a reciprocal retirement system and does so retire prior to the time the member
• § 20351 — The provisions of this part extending rights to a member of this system, or subjecting him or her to any limitation by reason of his or her membership in a county retirement system, apply in like mann
• § 20352 — The provisions of this part extending rights to a member of this system or subjecting him or her to any limitation, by reason of his or her membership in a county retirement system shall also apply to
• § 20353 — Any public agency that has pursuant to the provisions of Section 20351 entered into an agreement to establish a reciprocal retirement system with this system shall be deemed to have obtained the same
• § 20354 — The provisions of this part extending rights to a member of this system by reason of his or her membership in a county retirement system shall also apply to members who terminated state employment on
• § 20355 — Wherever in this part the rights of a member, because of membership in another retirement system, are conditioned upon employment within 90 days of termination of membership in this system or another
• § 20356 — Whenever in this part the rights of a local member, because of membership in another retirement system, are conditioned upon employment within six months of termination of membership in this system or
• § 20370 — (a) “Member” means an employee who has qualified for membership in this system and on whose behalf an employer has become obligated to pay contributions.
• § 20371 — “Member classification” means either of the following: (a) Miscellaneous member classification, which includes state miscellaneous members, National Guard members, university members, local miscellane
• § 20380 — “State miscellaneous member” includes all members employed by the state and university, except National Guard, industrial, patrol, state peace officer/firefighter, and state safety members.
• § 20380.5 — “National Guard member” means a person who elects to become a member of this system as described in Section 20326.
• § 20381 — “University member” includes all members who are employees of the university.
• § 20382 — “State industrial member” includes all state employees appointed by the Governor or by the Director of Corrections or the Board of Prison Terms or the Department of the Youth Authority or the Youthful
• § 20383 — “Local miscellaneous member” includes all employees of a county office of education, school district, or community college district who are included in a risk pool and all employees of a contracting a
• § 20390 — (a) “Patrol member” includes all members employed in the Department of the California Highway Patrol or by a county in connection with its highway patrol function, respectively, whose principal duties
• § 20391 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” means: (a) All persons in the Board of Parole Hearings, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Cannabis Control, the Department of Developmental
• § 20392 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes officers and employees with the following class titles: Class Code Classification 6875 Air Operations Officer I 1056 Air Operations Officer II 10
• § 20393 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” also means: (a) All persons in the office of the Secretary of State, office of the Controller, and the Public Employees’ Retirement System employed on a full-t
• § 20394 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes the employees of a California State University police department, established pursuant to Section 89560 of the Education Code, who have been desi
• § 20395 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” means all members who are full-time permanent employees represented in Corrections Unit No.
• § 20396 — (a) “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes employees of the California State University who are campus fire apparatus engineers and who are members represented by Technical and Support
• § 20397 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes: (a) The Sergeants-at-Arms of each house of the Legislature who have been designated as peace officers in subdivision (a) of Section 830.
• § 20398 — “State peace officer/firefighter member” also includes: (a) (1) State officers and employees designated as peace officers as defined in Sections 830.
• § 20399 — “State safety member,” includes persons employed in the Department of Fish and Game in connection with its warden service, whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement service, including i
• § 204 — The State may require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town officers; in highway labor; in maintaining the public peace; in enforcing
• § 20400 — (a) “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, whose principal duties consist of active fire suppression or supervision, including, but not
• § 20401 — “State safety member” means all persons within the Department of Justice designated as peace officers and performing investigative duties and whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement,
• § 20401.5 — (a) “State safety member” also includes state prosecutors and state public defenders.
• § 20402 — “State safety member” shall also include those persons while employed by the San Francisco Port Authority prior to their transfer to the San Francisco Port Commission whose principal duties consisted
• § 20403 — “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees in (a) the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employed to perform the duties now performed in positions with the following cla
• § 20404 — Notwithstanding Section 20401 “state safety member” shall include persons employed as members of a state college police department who meet the minimum standards of competence established by the Commi
• § 20405 — (a) “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the following classifications: Classification Code Classification 0683 Assist
• § 20405.1 — Notwithstanding Section 20405, this section shall apply to state employees in state bargaining units that have agreed to these provisions in a memorandum of understanding between the state employer an
• § 20405.2 — A member who made the election to remain under the miscellaneous or industrial retirement benefit, as provided in Section 20405.
• § 20405.3 — (a) A member who is an employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who made the election to remain under the state industrial membership classification, as provided in subdivision (d
• § 20406 — “State safety member” also includes persons employed by the state to perform lifeguard services and whose principal duties consist of active protection, rescue, and rendition of aid or assistance to p
• § 20407 — “State safety member” also includes officers and employees with the State Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the following classifications: Classific
• § 20407.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 20407, any person designated as a state safety member pursuant to Section 20407 who elected to remain subject to the miscellaneous service retirement benefit and contributi
• § 20408 — “State safety member” also includes officers and employees with the State Department of State Hospitals or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the following classifications: Classificati
• § 20409 — (a) “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees of the following departments with the following class titles: Class Code Classification Department 8330 Aircraft Pilot, Depart­ment
• § 20410 — “State safety member” also includes all persons in the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Board of Parole Hearings, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Developmental Servi
• § 20411 — “State safety member” also includes members employed in the positions with the classification of Vocational Instructor (Barber Shop Practices) (Correctional Facility) (Class Code 2441).
• § 20412 — “State safety member” shall also include persons employed to perform full-time active firefighting duties performed on April 1, 1972, under the titles of “institution fire chief,” “institution fireman
• § 20413 — “State safety member” shall also include persons employed under the title of “campus firefighter” who performed active firefighting duties for the state on April 1, 1973, and who, on January 1, 1979,
• § 20414 — “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: State Park Ranger Trainee, State Park Ranger I, State Park Ranger II, S
• § 20415 — “State safety member” also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: Manager I, State Park; Manager II, State Park; Manager III, State Park;
• § 20416 — “State safety member” includes all persons specified in this article by employer, classification, or duties performed, except persons in those classes defined as state peace officer/firefighter member
• § 20420 — “Local safety member” includes all local police officers, local sheriffs, firefighters, safety officers, county peace officers, and school safety members, employed by a contracting agency who have by
• § 20421 — “Local safety member” also includes all employees of a city who have by contract been included within this system, and whose principal duties consist of active protection, rescue, and rendition of aid
• § 20422 — “Local safety member” also includes all employees of a public agency whose principal duties consist of rendering prehospital emergency medical care to ill or injured persons and who are employees desi
• § 20423 — “Local safety member” also includes any harbor or port police officer, employed by a contracting agency, who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision (b) of Section, 830.
• § 20423.3 — (a) “Local safety member” also includes any airport patrol officer, airport law enforcement officer, or airport police officer employed by a contracting agency who is a peace officer, as defined in su
• § 20423.5 — “Local safety member” also includes any park ranger employed by a contracting agency who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 830.
• § 20423.6 — (a) “Local safety member” also includes local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators.
• § 20424 — “Local safety officer” means any officer or employee of a public safety department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, ma
• § 20425 — “Local police officer” means any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency which is a city, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenogr
• § 20426 — “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency that is a city, employed to perform communication duties for an employer that contracted wit
• § 20427 — “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a juvenile bureau of a contracting agency whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement service, except persons whose princip
• § 20428 — “Local police officer” shall also include any officer or employee of a contracting agency that is a city and county, in any employment in which he or she was a law enforcement member as defined by Sec
• § 20429 — “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a contracting agency other than a city or a county who is a peace officer as defined in the Penal Code and whose principal duties consis
• § 20430 — “Local police officer” also includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district that has established a police department pursuant to Section 38000 or 72330 of the Edu
• § 20431 — “Local police officer” also includes any employee of a contracting agency that is a city, who is employed in a jail or a detention or correctional facility and having as his or her primary duty and re
• § 20432 — (a) “Local sheriff” means any officer or employee of a sheriff’s office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, me
• § 20432.5 — (a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed marshal of Shasta County or of a judicial district of Shasta County.
• § 20432.6 — (a) “Local sheriff” also means a regularly employed district attorney investigator of Solano County whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases, if the district attorney investi
• § 20433 — “Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist, mec
• § 20434 — “Local firefighter” also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist
• § 20434.5 — “Local firefighter” also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, stenographer, machinist
• § 20435 — “Local firefighter” means any officer or employee of a contracting agency performing a fire training function for a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone opera
• § 20436 — (a) “County peace officer” means the sheriff and any officer or employee of a sheriff’s office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone operator, clerk, sten
• § 20437 — (a) “County peace officer” shall also include the constable and each regularly employed deputy constable and the marshal and each regularly employed deputy marshal who serves the superior court.
• § 20438 — “County peace officer” shall also include probation officers, deputy and assistant probation officers, and persons employed in a juvenile hall or home and having as their primary duty and responsibili
• § 20439 — “County peace officer” shall also include employees of the sheriff employed in a county jail, detention or correctional facility and having as their primary duty and responsibility the supervision and
• § 20440 — “County peace officer” shall also include employees of the sheriff employed to attend sessions of the superior or former municipal courts and preserve order in the courtrooms, to guard and maintain th
• § 20441 — “County peace officer” shall also include persons employed by a county parks and recreation department whose primary responsibility is maintaining the peace and whose duties include law enforcement, e
• § 20442 — Persons employed in positions that are found to come within the definition of local safety member as the result of administrative review by the board or court action and who were previously miscellane
• § 20443 — A member who is employed in a position that is reclassified from local miscellaneous to local safety and is made subject to a safety service retirement benefit, other than that provided in Section 213
• § 20444 — “School safety member” includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district that has established a police department pursuant to Section 38000 or 72330 of the Educatio
• § 20445 — A member employed with a school district or community college district, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 20057, who is in a position that qualifies as a school safety member and made subject t
• § 20460 — (a) Any public agency may participate in this system by contract entered into between its governing body and the board pursuant to this part.
• § 20460.1 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), for all counties that contract with the board for the provision of retirement benefits for their eligible employees as of the implementation date of the Tria
• § 20461 — The board may refuse to contract with, or to agree to an amendment proposed by, any public agency for any benefit provisions that are not specifically authorized by this part and that the board determ
• § 20462 — The governing body of a public agency that has established a pension trust or retirement plan funded by individual or group life insurance or annuity contracts may, notwithstanding any provision of th
• § 20463 — (a) The governing body of a public agency, or an employee organization, recognized under Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, that represents employees of the public age
• § 20465 — (a) On request of the board, the public agency shall furnish data concerning its employees as the board requires to make the necessary valuations and investigation into the experience among the employ
• § 20466 — The approximate contribution quoted by the board and the actual contribution to be made if a contract results shall be determined by actuarial valuations by the actuary of the prior and future service
• § 20467 — Notwithstanding Section 20466, the approximate contribution quoted by the board and the actual contributions for a contracting agency that is an employer for purposes of Chapter 9 (commencing with Sec
• § 20468 — The approximate and actual contributions are similar to premiums under insurance policies.
• § 20469 — If after receiving the approximate contribution quotation the governing body intends to approve the proposed contract, it shall adopt a resolution giving notice of that intention.
• § 20469.1 — (a) Notwithstanding 20469, if after receiving the approximate contribution quotation the governing body of a county and the presiding officer of a trial court located in the same county intend to appr
• § 20470 — The governing body shall not include in this system any group if a majority of its members voted to disapprove the proposed plan or if two-thirds of those of its members who are also members of an exi
• § 20471 — Approval of the contract shall be by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the governing body, not less than 20 days after the adoption of the resolution of intenti
• § 20471.1 — Notwithstanding Section 20471, and except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 20469.
• § 20471.2 — (a) A county and a trial court that elect to separate the joint contract into individual contracts shall do so by ordinances or resolutions adopted by both the affirmative vote of a majority of the me
• § 20472 — Errors in any contract may be corrected through amendments approved by the adoption of suitable resolutions by the contracting parties.
• § 20473 — Investigations and valuations necessary to adjust the agency’s contributions on account of changed benefits or conditions of retirement shall be made in the manner prescribed for valuations and invest
• § 20474 — Whenever by any provision of law an election is given to contracting agencies to subject themselves and their employees to provisions of this part otherwise not applicable to contracting agencies and
• § 20475 — Notwithstanding Section 20474, a contracting agency may amend its contract or previous amendments to its contract, without election among its employees, to reduce benefits, to terminate provisions tha
• § 20476 — Whenever any provision of this part requires action by ordinance, action by resolution is authorized, except with respect to cities and counties, if the governing body of the public agency is authoriz
• § 20477 — If the head of a public agency is an individual, rather than a board or other governing body, all actions required or permitted by this part to be taken by ordinance may be taken by order of the indiv
• § 20478 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the board of directors of a metropolitan water district, or the governing body of any other public agency, shall adopt any order, motion, resolution o
• § 20479 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, no contract or contract amendment shall be made to provid
• § 20479.5 — Notwithstanding Section 20479, where a memorandum of understanding entered prior to August 11, 1988, provided a different retirement benefit formula for a subgroup of employees in a member classificat
• § 20480 — (a) An out-of-class appointment by a contracting agency employer or a school employer shall not exceed a total of 960 hours in each fiscal year.
• § 20481 — All members of a local system included by contract in this system thereupon become subject to this part and cease to be members of the local system.
• § 20482 — Subject to the approval of the board as in the case of all other employees, the contracting agency may elect to continue the local system and to place under this system only a portion of the members o
• § 20483 — If all members of the local system become members of this system, the operation of the local system shall be discontinued as of the date provided for in the contract, and if only a part of the members
• § 20484 — Notwithstanding Section 20483, if a member of a local system, which is also a reciprocal system pursuant to Section 20351, elects to join this system as permitted by Section 20504, the operation of th
• § 20485 — It is the intent of the Legislature that contracting agencies in conjunction with recognized local employee organizations, develop alternative retirement plans that provide benefits under a defined co
• § 20486 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 20484, a contracting agency that continued the local system for members who elected to become members of this system prospectively pursuant to Section 20504 may transfer to
• § 20487 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contracting agency or public agency that becomes the subject of a case under the bankruptcy provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 901) of Titl
• § 20500 — The contract may include any provisions consistent with this part and necessary in the administration of this system as it affects the public agency and its employees.
• § 20501 — Contracts with school employers may include school district employees in this system only with respect to service rendered in a status in which they are not eligible for membership in the State Teache
• § 20502 — (a) (1) The initial contract shall include in this system all firefighters, police officers, county peace officers, local sheriffs, and other employees of the contracting agency, except as exclusions
• § 20503 — Notwithstanding Section 20055, a contracting agency may amend its contract to remove exclusions prospectively only, and without creating liability for prior service.
• § 20504 — Notwithstanding Section 20055, a contracting agency, which is a reciprocal system pursuant to Section 20351, may amend its contract to remove an exclusion of groups of employees of the reciprocal syst
• § 20505 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every employee who enters or reenters service with a contracting agency on and after January 1, 1992, shall immediately become a member of this system irres
• § 20506 — Any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into shall subject the contracting agency and its employees to all provisions of this part and all amendments thereto applicable to members, local miscella
• § 20507 — A contracting agency whose contract is effective on and after January 1, 1974, that does not become an employer for purposes of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 20790), or a contracting agency that
• § 20508 — When a contracting agency is succeeded by another agency, whether or not the former agency ceases to exist, or when the functions of a contracting agency are assumed by a succeeding agency, the succee
• § 20508.3 — A successor agency, pursuant to Section 20508, for the El Dorado County Fire Protection District and the Diamond Springs-El Dorado Fire Protection District may provide employees the defined benefit pl