California

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

• § 21191 — Subject to Sections 21197 and 21201, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person who has been retired under this system for industrial disability shall be reinstated from reti
• § 21192 — The board, or in case of a local safety member, other than a school safety member, the governing body of the employer from whose employment the person was retired, may require any recipient of a disab
• § 21193 — If the determination pursuant to Section 21192 is that the recipient is not so incapacitated for duty in the position held when retired for disability or in a position in the same classification or in
• § 21194 — A person who has been partially retired under this system pursuant to Article 1.
• § 21195 — (a) Notwithstanding any other section in Article 6 (commencing with Section 21150) or in this article, the Department of Human Resources may reinstate a person who has retired for industrial disabilit
• § 21196 — The board may reinstate a person from retirement upon (a) his or her application to the board for reinstatement and (b) the determination of the board that his or her age at the date of application fo
• § 21197 — The board may reinstate a person from industrial disability retirement to a miscellaneous member position upon all of the following: (a) His or her application to the board for reinstatement.
• § 21198 — A person who has been retired under this system for service following an involuntary termination of his or her employment, and who is subsequently reinstated to that employment pursuant to an administ
• § 21199 — A person who has been retired under this system for service may be reinstated from retirement pursuant to this article, without regard to the requirements of Section 21196, upon his or her application
• § 21200 — When any person is reinstated from retirement under this article, his or her retirement allowance shall be canceled immediately, and he or she shall become a member of this system as of the date of re
• § 21201 — When any person is reinstated from industrial disability retirement under Sections 21191 and 21197, his or her retirement allowance shall be canceled immediately, and he or she shall become a member o
• § 21202 — A person employed in violation of Section 21220 may be reinstated to membership in the category in which, and on the date on which, the unlawful employment occurred.
• § 21203 — A person who has been retired under this system for service may be reinstated from retirement pursuant to this article, without regard to the requirements of Section 21196, upon his or her application
• § 21220 — (a) A person who has been retired under this system, for service or for disability, may not be employed in any capacity thereafter by the state, the university, a school employer, or a contracting age
• § 21220.5 — A retired person who has not attained the normal retirement age shall have a bona fide separation in service to the extent required by the Internal Revenue Code, and the regulations promulgated thereu
• § 21221 — A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system, as follows: (a) As a member of any board, commission, or advisory committe
• § 21222 — Notwithstanding Section 21221, if a retired person serves without reinstatement from retirement in an elective office and part or all of his or her retirement allowance is based on service in that ele
• § 21223 — A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided under this system upon approval of the Director of Human Resources or the governing body o
• § 21224 — (a) A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system upon appointment by the appointing power of a state agency or public ag
• § 21225 — (a) A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system as a substitute in a position requiring certification qualifications, p
• § 21226 — (a) A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system as a member of the academic staff of a California community college or
• § 21227 — (a) A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system as a member of the academic staff of the California State University, i
• § 21229 — (a) A retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system upon appointment by a school employer or by the Trustees of the Califor
• § 21230 — (a) A safety member who is retired for service, with at least 20 years of service in corrections or at a jail, may serve without reinstatement from service retirement or loss or interruption of benefi
• § 21231 — (a) On and after January 1, 2013, a retired person may serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by this system, as an elective officer.
• § 21232 — On and after January 1, 2013, a person who has retired for disability and has not attained the mandatory age for retirement for persons in the employment in which he or she will be employed, and whom
• § 21233 — (a) A person who has retired for disability shall not be employed, pursuant to this article or Section 7522.
• § 21250 — A pension, an annuity, special death benefit or retirement allowance granted by this part is payable in equal monthly installments but a smaller pro rata amount may be paid for part of a month when th
• § 21251 — Notwithstanding Section 20172, the board may establish a special account and procedure to directly pay estimated benefits on an emergency basis.
• § 21251.13 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Sections 21070.
• § 21251.15 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, when a member’s account has been divided pursuant to Section 21290, and the nonmember has not effected a refund of accumulated contributions pursu
• § 21252 — (a) A member’s written application for retirement, if submitted to the board within nine months after the date the member discontinued his or her state service, and, in the case of retirement for disa
• § 21254 — The right of a person to a pension, retirement allowance, return of contributions, the pension, retirement allowance, any optional benefit, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under t
• § 21255 — The right of a person to any benefit or other right under this part and the money in the retirement fund are not subject to execution or any process whatsoever except to the extent permitted by Sectio
• § 21256 — Any allowance may be paid directly to a trust.
• § 21257 — The benefits payable after August 4, 1943 under this system shall not be modified on account of any amounts paid to a retired member or beneficiary under Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200) of t
• § 21258 — For the purposes of determining eligibility for disability retirement, calculating disability retirement allowances, and determining and calculating death benefits, any member who, while in a membersh
• § 21259 — Subject to compliance with this part, after a member has qualified as to service and disability for retirement for disability, or as to age and service for retirement for service, nothing shall depriv
• § 21260 — In lieu of receiving a monthly allowance that is less than ten dollars ($10) per month, the beneficiary or survivor entitled to the allowance may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent of the month
• § 21261 — The sole purpose of this section is to notify the current spouse of the selection of benefits or change of beneficiary made by a member.
• § 21263 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 751 and 1100 of the Family Code, whenever payment or refund is made by this system to a member, former member, beneficiary of a member or estate of a member
• § 21264 — Retired members of this system, and beneficiaries who are entitled to receive allowances or benefits under this part, may authorize deductions to be made from their retirement allowance payments or fr
• § 21265 — Retired members of this system, and beneficiaries who are entitled to receive allowances or benefits under this part, may authorize deductions to be made from their retirement allowance payments or fr
• § 21266 — Upon receipt of proof, satisfactory to the board, that a warrant drawn in payment of a retirement allowance or in payment of any other account due from the retirement system has been lost, the Control
• § 21267 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person entitled to the receipt of benefits from any state retirement system may authorize the payment of the benefits to be directly deposited by el
• § 21268 — The Controller may make an agreement with one or more financial institutions participating in the Automated Clearing House pursuant to the local rules, and may establish a program, for the direct depo
• § 21269 — (a) Any person entitled to a benefit from this system may request that payment be made by deposit by electronic fund transfer in the person’s bank, savings and loan association, or credit union accoun
• § 21290 — (a) Upon the legal separation or dissolution of marriage of a member, the court shall include in the judgment or a court order the date on which the parties separated.
• § 21291 — “Nonmember,” as used in this article, means the spouse or former spouse of a member, who as a result of petitioning the court for the division of community property, has been awarded a distinct and se
• § 21291.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, a spouse or registered domestic partner who is not an alternate payee, as defined in Section 414(p)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.
• § 21292 — (a) The nonmember who is awarded a separate account shall have the right to a refund of the accumulated contributions in the separate account of the nonmember.
• § 21293 — (a) The nonmember who is awarded a separate account may redeposit accumulated contributions previously refunded to the member in accordance with the determination of the court required by Section 2129
• § 21294 — (a) The nonmember shall have the right to purchase service credit pursuant to the determination of the court required by Section 21290.
• § 21295 — A nonmember shall be retired upon his or her written application to the board if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The nonmember has attained the minimum age prescribed by the applicable se
• § 21296 — Retirement shall be effective and the retirement allowance shall begin to accrue as of the date designated in the nonmember’s application as the effective date of retirement, or the day following the
• § 21297 — For a nonmember, “final compensation” means the highest average annual compensation earnable by the member during the three consecutive years, or one year where applicable, prior to the date of dissol
• § 21298 — (a) A nonmember entitled to receive a retirement allowance shall receive a retirement allowance based on the service retirement formula applicable to the service credited to the nonmember.
• § 21310 — It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to provide for the preservation of the purchasing power of benefits under the Public Employees’ Retirement Law through a system of adjustm
• § 21310.5 — The cost-of-living adjustments under Section 415(d) of the Internal Revenue Code to the limits described in Section 415(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, as prescribed by the regulations of the Departm
• § 21311 — The following definitions shall govern the application of this article: (a) “Monthly allowance” means any allowance payable monthly to a retired person, a survivor or beneficiary of a member or a reti
• § 21312 — Notwithstanding Section 20481, monthly allowances payable to persons retired under a local system of a contracting agency at the time of contract shall be adjusted in accordance with this article.
• § 21313 — Monthly allowances shall be adjusted annually for time commencing on April 1 and effective with the monthly allowance regularly payable on the first day of May beginning with May 1, 1969.
• § 21317 — (a) In addition to the increase of allowance authorized by and granted pursuant to Section 21313 and notwithstanding the limitation in subdivision (b) of Section 21329, any monthly allowance computed
• § 21318 — (a) In addition to the increase of allowance authorized by and granted pursuant to Section 21313 and notwithstanding the limitation in subdivision (b) of Section 21329, any monthly allowance computed
• § 21319 — (a) In addition to the increase of allowance authorized by and granted pursuant to Section 21313 and notwithstanding the limitation in subdivision (b) of Section 21329, any monthly allowance computed
• § 21320 — (a) In addition to the increase in allowance authorized by and granted pursuant to Section 21313, and notwithstanding the limitation on such increases imposed by this article, the monthly allowance pa
• § 21322 — Section 21320 shall apply to any contracting agency that has included the provisions of that section in its contract with the board on or before December 31, 2001.
• § 21325 — (a) In addition to the increase in allowance authorized by and granted pursuant to the provisions of Section 21313, and notwithstanding the limitation on those increases imposed by this article, the m
• § 21326 — (a) In addition to the increase in allowance authorized by and granted pursuant to the provisions of Section 21313, and notwithstanding the limitation on those increases imposed by this article, the m
• § 21327 — In addition to the increase in allowance authorized and granted pursuant to provisions of Section 21313, and notwithstanding the limitation on those increases imposed by this article, effective Januar
• § 21328 — (a) In addition to the increase in allowance authorized and granted pursuant to Section 21313, and notwithstanding the limitation on that increase imposed by this article and subdivision (b) of Sectio
• § 21329 — The adjustments provided by this article are subject to the following limitations: (a) No adjustment shall be made for any year for which the adjustment is less than 1 percent of the base allowance, a
• § 21330 — Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this article, the monthly allowance for service credited under the Second Tier shall be adjusted annually beginning with the second calendar year following
• § 21331 — An adjustment in a monthly allowance under this article shall be derived from or credited to contributions of the employer, and if the monthly allowance is a retirement allowance the adjustment shall
• § 21335 — Notwithstanding Section 21329, the adjustments in allowances for local members provided by this article for the time commencing on and after the annual adjustment date following the date specified by
• § 21337 — (a) On an annual basis, the board shall transfer funds to separate supplemental state and school accounts, to fund the purchasing power protection allowance of retirees, survivors, and beneficiaries o
• § 21337.1 — (a) All monthly allowances paid by the system to retirees of contracting public agencies, and to survivors and beneficiaries of members and retirees of those agencies, shall annually be increased to 8
• § 21350 — Upon retirement for service, a member is entitled to receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of: (a) The member’s service retirement annuity, including, with respect to patrol membe
• § 21351 — The actual amount of annuity receivable by a member upon retirement shall be the actuarial equivalent of his or her accumulated contributions.
• § 21352 — The service retirement annuity is the sum of the annuities which are the actuarial equivalents of the normal and additional accumulated contributions of a member at the time of his or her retirement.
• § 21353 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member, a school member, a state miscellaneous or state industrial member, or a university member is a pension derived fro
• § 21353.5 — The combined current and prior service pensions for a state miscellaneous or industrial member who has elected to be subject to the service retirement formula prescribed in this section, as provided b
• § 21354 — The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member is a pension derived from the contribution of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuity tha
• § 21354.1 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for school members, state miscellaneous or state industrial members, or university members who are subject to the provisions of this section is a pe
• § 21354.3 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuit
• § 21354.4 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuit
• § 21354.5 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuit
• § 21355 — Notwithstanding Sections 21353, 21354, and 21354.
• § 21356 — (a) A member who elects, pursuant to Article 1.
• § 21357 — (a) For a member reinstated from service retirement or partial service retirement, the current service pension, or current and prior service pensions, as the case may be, upon his or her service retir
• § 21358 — Notwithstanding Section 21357, the retirement allowance of a state member, other than a university member, payable upon retirement within one year of reinstatement from an earlier retirement of six mo
• § 21359 — Notwithstanding Section 21357, in determining the method of calculation of subsequent retirement benefits for a university employee who, on the date of reemployment and reinstatement from retirement,
• § 21362 — (a) The current service pension for patrol members and the combined current and prior service pensions for local safety members with respect to local safety service rendered to a contracting agency th
• § 21362.2 — (a) Upon attaining the age of 50 years or more, the combined current and prior service pension for state patrol members and for local safety members with respect to local safety service rendered to a
• § 21362.3 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 21362.
• § 21363 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for state peace officer/firefighter members subject to this section with respect to state peace officer/firefighter service and the combined current
• § 21363.1 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for state peace officer/firefighter members subject to this section with respect to state peace officer/firefighter service, and for local safety me
• § 21363.2 — (a) This section shall apply only to patrol members in State Bargaining Unit 5.
• § 21363.3 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for state peace officer/firefighter members described in Section 20394 is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient when a
• § 21363.4 — (a) Upon attaining the age of 50 years or more, the combined current and prior service pension for a state peace officer/firefighter member described in subdivision (c) who retires or dies on or after
• § 21363.8 — (a) Upon attaining the age of 50 years or more, the combined current and prior service pension for a state peace officer/firefighter member described in subdivision (c) who retires or dies on or after
• § 21364 — A contracting agency may elect to be subject to Section 21362, 21362.
• § 21365 — If, pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, Kings County enters into a binding memorandum of understanding and agrees to the application of this section, the co
• § 21366 — The combined prior and current service pensions for patrol members and local safety members, other than local safety members to whom Section 21362, 21368, or 21369 applies, upon retirement at or after
• § 21367 — The fraction or percentage of final compensation, for purposes of calculating the combined prior and current service pensions under Section 21362 or 21366 for a local safety member retiring after the
• § 21368 — The combined current and prior service pensions for a local safety member who is an employee of a contracting agency that is subject to this section, is an annual pension that when added to the servic
• § 21369 — (a) The combined prior and current service pension for a state safety member, and a local safety member with respect to service to a contracting agency subject to this section, upon retirement after a
• § 21369.1 — (a) The combined current and prior service pensions for state safety members subject to this section with respect to state safety service that is subject to this section is a pension derived from the
• § 21369.2 — (a) The combined prior and current service pension for a state safety member, upon retirement after attaining the age of 55 years, is a pension derived from contributions of an employer sufficient, wh
• § 21370 — (a) The combined prior and current service pension for local safety members with respect to service to a contracting agency subject to this section, upon retirement after attaining 56 years of age, is
• § 21371 — The combined current and prior service pensions, disability retirement allowance or continued allowance with respect to a retired member whose effective date of retirement was prior to April 1, 1973,
• § 21372 — The combined current and prior service pensions of a state safety member who on March 31, 1973, was a forestry member not subject to former Section 21252.
• § 21373 — The combined current and prior service pensions for a state safety member who on March 31, 1973, was a law enforcement member not subject to Section 21369, shall be determined in accordance with this
• § 21374 — The combined current and prior service pensions for a state safety member who on March 31, 1973, was a warden member shall be determined in accordance with this part as it read and applied to him or h
• § 21375 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and with respect only to an election by a contracting agency to amend its contract to become subject to Section 21369, 21370, or 21363, instead of Section 2
• § 21376 — Whenever a contracting agency amends its contract to become subject to Section 21370 instead of Section 21369, a member who previously elected, pursuant to Section 21375, to remain subject to Section
• § 21380 — If a state safety member retires for service before attaining age 55, or, in the case of the member who continues subject to the current and prior service pension provision for retirement of warden an
• § 21381 — (a) The retirement allowance referred to in this section excludes that portion of a member’s service retirement annuity that was purchased by his or her accumulated additional contributions.
• § 21383 — The prior service pensions for state members are derived from contributions of the state.
• § 21384 — The prior service pension for local members is a pension derived from the contributions of the employing contracting agency if and as provided for in the contract between the board and the contracting
• § 21385 — The prior service pension of a member reinstated from service retirement, upon his or her subsequent service retirement, shall be in the same amount as his or her prior service pension prior to his or
• § 21390 — Notwithstanding Sections 21362, 21362.
• § 21400 — A safety member who retires on or after January 1, 2013, for industrial disability shall receive a disability retirement benefit equal to the greater of the following: (a) Fifty percent of the member’
• § 21404 — Upon retirement for disability, a local miscellaneous member who is not subject to Section 21427 and who has attained the minimum age at which he or she may retire for service without an actuarial dis
• § 21405 — Upon retirement for nonindustrial disability, a local safety member who has attained the minimum age at which he or she may retire for service without an actuarial discount because of age, shall recei
• § 21406 — Upon retirement of a patrol member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 per cent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with hi
• § 21407 — Upon retirement of a state peace officer/firefighter member or a local safety member subject to Section 21363, 21363.
• § 21408 — Upon the industrial disability retirement of a state miscellaneous member subject to Section 21151, the disability allowance shall be 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purcha
• § 21409 — Upon the industrial disability retirement of a state miscellaneous member within Section 21151, or a state industrial member whose service is subject to Section 21076 or 21076.
• § 21410 — Notwithstanding Sections 21406, 21407, 21408, 21409, and 21411, any state member who becomes subject to Section 21159 on or after January 1, 1993, and retires for industrial disability because of inca
• § 21411 — Upon retirement of a state safety member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased wi
• § 21412 — Upon retirement of a state industrial member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchase
• § 21413 — Upon retirement of a local safety member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased wi
• § 21414 — Upon retirement of a local miscellaneous member for industrial disability, he or she shall receive a disability allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with
• § 21415 — Notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, a retired state safety or state peace officer/firefighter member who, before January 1, 1986, was eligible for an industrial disability allo
• § 21416 — Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a state safety member employed by the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority with 25 years or more of service credit as such, sh
• § 21418 — The disability retirement allowance for a patrol, state safety, state peace officer/firefighter, state industrial, or local safety member retired because of industrial disability shall be derived from
• § 21419 — This system shall deduct the amount of advanced disability pension payments made to a local safety member pursuant to Section 4850.
• § 21419.5 — The system shall deduct the amount of interim disability allowance made to a state member pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 19253.
• § 21420 — If a member retired for industrial disability has made contributions in respect to service rendered in a category of membership other than the category in which he or she was at the time he or she suf
• § 21422 — Every member retired for disability for whom a different disability retirement allowance is not prescribed by any other provision of this article, including a member who is entitled to an industrial d
• § 21423 — The disability retirement pension, other than an industrial disability retirement pension, for a member, other than a member who is subject to Section 21424 or 21427, shall be such an amount as with t
• § 21424 — The nonindustrial disability retirement pension for state miscellaneous or state industrial service subject to Section 21076 or 21076.
• § 21426 — In no event shall the disability retirement pension under Sections 21422 and 21423 be more than sufficient to make the disability retirement allowance, exclusive of any annuity provided by accumulated
• § 21427 — The disability retirement allowance of a local miscellaneous and local safety member whose effective date of retirement for nonindustrial disability is after June 14, 1975, and whose last employment p
• § 21428 — Upon retirement of a local safety member or a local miscellaneous member for industrial disability, if the member is totally disabled he or she shall receive in lieu of the allowance otherwise provide
• § 21428.1 — (a) Upon retirement of a patrol member for industrial disability as the result of a single event that results in serious bodily injury, the member shall receive the higher of the allowance provided by
• § 21430 — Upon retirement of a local safety member for industrial disability, the member shall receive in lieu of the allowance otherwise provided by this article a disability retirement allowance in the amount
• § 21432 — If, prior to attaining the minimum age for voluntary retirement for service applicable to members of his or her class, a recipient of a disability retirement allowance, other than one for industrial d
• § 21450 — This system shall provide to any member who requests materials relating to retirement, a written explanation of the effects, if any, of each possible decision relating to the selection of optional set
• § 21451 — In lieu of the retirement allowance for his or her life alone, a member or retired member may elect, or revoke or change a previous election prior to the approval of the previous election, to have the
• § 21452 — The lesser retirement allowance under an optional settlement elected at retirement for law enforcement members whose retirement is effective prior to October 1, 1965, and who are entitled to receive b
• § 21453 — An election, revocation, or change of election shall be made within 30 calendar days after the making of the first payment on account of any retirement allowance or, in the event of a change of retire
• § 21454 — Notwithstanding Section 21453, an election of optional settlement 2 or 3, or optional settlement 4 involving life contingency in which a spouse is designated as the beneficiary, may be modified as pro
• § 21455 — Optional settlement 1 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to the member until his or her death and if the member dies before he or she receives in annuity payments the amount of
• § 21456 — Optional settlement 2 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death and thereafter to his or her beneficiary for life.
• § 21457 — Optional settlement 3 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have one-half of his or her retirement allowance paid to his or he
• § 21458 — Optional settlement 4 consists of such other benefits as are the actuarial equivalent of a member’s retirement allowance, that he or she may select subject to the approval of the board.
• § 21459 — A member who elects to receive optional settlement 2 or 3 may concurrently and irrevocably elect to waive the provision for an increase to his or her allowance due to the death of his or her beneficia
• § 21460 — A member who elects to receive the unmodified allowance or optional settlement 1, or optional settlement 2, 3, or 4 with or without making the election specified in Section 21459, and who names his or
• § 21461 — (a) A member retiring for service may elect to have the actuarial equivalent of his or her unmodified service retirement allowance paid in two parts as follows: (1) A temporary annuity in an amount sp
• § 21461.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 21461, a member retiring for service who became a member of the system on or after January 1, 2002, and who is covered under the federal system but is not yet receiving a r
• § 21462 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a member who elected to receive optional settlement 2, 3, or 4 at retirement, involving a life contingency of the beneficiary, may, if the ben
• § 21463 — A member who elected to receive optional settlement 2 or 3 and whose beneficiary predeceases him or her, shall be entitled to receive the increased allowance pursuant to Section 21456 or Section 21457
• § 21464 — Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a retired member who chose no optional settlement or optional settlement one at retirement and who marries after retirement may elect to have the actuarial
• § 21465 — (a) Optional settlement 5 consists of a partial distribution of the actuarial present value of the portion, as specified in this section, of the member’s unmodified monthly allowance, as prescribed in
• § 21470 — This system shall provide to any member who retires on or after January 1, 2018, and requests materials relating to retirement, a written explanation of the effects, if any, of each possible decision
• § 21471 — (a) The unmodified allowance consists of the right to have the maximum retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death.
• § 21471.1 — (a) In lieu of electing the unmodified allowance, a member may elect to have the actuarial equivalent of his or her unmodified allowance as of the date of retirement applied to a lesser retirement all
• § 21471.2 — If a member elects an optional settlement that provides for a monthly allowance for his or her named beneficiary or beneficiaries, the combined allowance payable to the member’s named beneficiary or b
• § 21472 — (a) An election, revocation, or change of election shall be made within 30 calendar days after the making of the first payment on account of any retirement allowance or, in the event of a change of re
• § 21473 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 21472, the election of an optional settlement in Section 21475, 21475.
• § 21474 — (a) The Return of Remaining Contributions Option 1 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death and if he or she dies before he or she receives in annui
• § 21475 — (a) The 100 Percent Beneficiary Option 2 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have the same monthly allowance paid to his or
• § 21475.5 — (a) The 100 Percent Beneficiary Option 2 with Benefit Allowance Increase consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death and thereafter to have the same mo
• § 21476 — (a) The 50 Percent Beneficiary Option 3 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have one-half of the member’s monthly allowance
• § 21476.5 — (a) The 50 Percent Beneficiary Option 3 with Benefit Allowance Increase consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have one-half of
• § 21477 — (a) The Flexible Beneficiary Option 4 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have a monthly allowance paid to his or her named
• § 21478 — (a) A member who elects to receive the unmodified allowance or the optional settlement in Section 21474, or the optional settlement in Section 21475, 21475.
• § 21479 — (a) A member retiring for service may elect to have the actuarial equivalent of his or her unmodified service retirement allowance paid in two parts as follows: (1) A temporary annuity in an amount sp
• § 21480 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 21479, a member retiring for service who became a member of the system on or after January 1, 2002, and who is covered under the federal system but is not yet receiving a r
• § 21481 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a member who elected the optional settlement in Section 21475, 21475.
• § 21482 — (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a retired member who chose no optional settlement or the optional settlement in Section 21474 at retirement and who marries after retirement may elect t
• § 21483 — (a) Optional settlement 5 consists of a partial distribution of the actuarial present value of the portion, as specified in this section, of the member’s unmodified monthly allowance, as prescribed in
• § 21490 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a member may at any time, including, but not limited to, at any time after reaching retirement age, designate a beneficiary to receive the benefits as may be
• § 21491 — A person who is entitled to receive a monthly allowance as a survivor of a deceased person may designate a beneficiary to receive the pro rata allowance payable following his or her death.
• § 21492 — The designation of a beneficiary under the optional settlements in Sections 21456, 21457, 21459, 21475, 21475.
• § 21493 — (a) If a person had no beneficiary designation in effect on the date of death, any benefit payable shall be paid to the survivors of the person in the following order: (1) The decedent’s spouse.
• § 21494 — If, upon the death of a person there is a valid beneficiary designation on file with the board naming the decedent’s estate as beneficiary, and the estate will be probated, benefits shall be paid to t
• § 21495 — (a) Payment of any benefit shall not be made to those persons covered by Section 21493 if there are eligible recipients who are living members of a higher ranking class of beneficiaries as set forth i
• § 21496 — The board’s good faith determination of entitlement to payment pursuant to Section 21493, 21494, or 21506 shall be based upon such evidence as a death certificate, marriage certificate, or birth certi
• § 21497 — If the total value of the benefit to be paid pursuant to Section 21493, 21494, or 21506 is less than an amount determined by the board, the benefit may be paid to the first member of the entitled clas
• § 21498 — The board may fix such time as it deems reasonable during which claims for benefits pursuant to Sections 21493, 21494, and 21506 may be made.
• § 21499 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 21498, when either an initial payment of a preretirement or postretirement death allowance or a preretirement or postretirement lump-sum benefit is payable in an amount of
• § 21499.1 — Any overpayment, issued after the date of death to a member, retired member, or beneficiary, made to or on behalf of any member, retired member, or beneficiary, including, but not limited to, contribu
• § 21500 — (a) Whenever a person entitled to payment of a member’s accumulated contributions or any other benefit fails to claim the payment or cannot be located or a warrant in payment is canceled pursuant to S
• § 21501 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a parent having custody of surviving children eligible to receive an allowance or a lump-sum payment payable under this part shall not be required to become