California Government Code Section 31451

CA Govt Code § 31451 (2017)  

The purpose of this chapter is to recognize a public obligation to county and district employees who become incapacitated by age or long service in public employment and its accompanying physical disabilities by making provision for retirement compensation and death benefit as additional elements of compensation for future services and to provide a means by which public employees who become incapacitated may be replaced by more capable employees to the betterment of the public service without prejudice and without inflicting a hardship upon the employees removed.

(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018