California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

  • Section 20010.
    “Accumulated additional contributions” means the sum of all additional contributions standing to the credit of a member’s individual account, and interest thereon.(Repealed and added by...
  • Section 20011.
    “Accumulated contributions” means accumulated normal contributions plus any accumulated additional contributions standing to the credit of a member’s account.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch....
  • Section 20012.
    “Accumulated normal contributions” means the sum of all normal contributions standing to the credit of a member’s individual account, and interest thereon.(Repealed and added by...
  • Section 20013.
    “Actuarial equivalent” means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted and the actuarial interest rate fixed by...
  • Section 20014.
    “Actuarial interest rate” means the interest rate fixed by the board for purposes of actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of this system.(Repealed and...
  • Section 20015.
    “Actuary” means an actuary regularly employed on a full-time or part-time basis by the board.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective...
  • Section 20016.
    “Additional contributions” means contributions made by members and their employers in addition to their normal contributions under Article 2 (commencing with Section 20710) of Chapter...
  • Section 20017.
    “Annual interest rate” means the net earnings rate reduced by 110 basis points for purposes of crediting interest.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379,...
  • Section 20018.
    “Annuity” means payments for life derived from contributions made by a member.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
  • Section 20019.
    “Beneficiary” means any person or corporation designated by a member, a retired member, or by statute to receive a benefit payable under this part, on...
  • Section 20020.
    “Benefit” means the retirement allowance, basic death benefit, limited death benefit, special death benefit, any monthly allowance for survivors of a member or retired person,...
  • Section 20021.
    “Board” means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
  • Section 20022.
    “Contracting agency” means any public agency that has elected to have all or any part of its employees become members of this system and that...
  • Section 20023.
    “County peace officer service” shall include service rendered in the sheriff’s office of a city and county in positions that were subsequently reclassified as positions...
  • Section 20023.5.
    “County retirement system” means a retirement system established under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 31450) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 3, the...
  • Section 20024.
    “Current service” means all state service rendered by a member on and after the date upon which he or she first became a member, service...
  • Section 20025.
    “Dependent,” in reference to any benefit provided, upon the death of a member, for a surviving dependent parent, or parent dependent upon the member for...
  • Section 20026.
    “Disability” and “incapacity for performance of duty” as a basis of retirement, mean disability of permanent or extended duration, which is expected to last at...
  • Section 20027.
    “Disability,” “disabled,” or “incapacitated” means, with respect to qualification for an allowance payable to a surviving child, inability to engage in any substantial gainful occupation...
  • Section 20027.5.
    (a) “Electronic funds transfer” means any transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check, draft, or similar paper instrument, that is initiated through an...
  • Section 20028.
    “Employee” means all of the following:(a) Any person in the employ of the state, a county superintendent of schools, or the university whose compensation, or at...
  • Section 20029.
    “Employee federal contributions” means those contributions required of employees under the federal system with respect to wages paid to individuals who perform services in employment...
  • Section 20030.
    “Employer” means the state, the university, a school employer, and any contracting agency employing an employee.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2....
  • Section 20031.
    “Employer federal contributions” means those contributions required of employers under the federal system with respect to wages paid to individuals who perform services in employment...
  • Section 20032.
    “Federal-state agreement” means the agreement or any modification thereof executed by the board pursuant to Section 418 of Title 42 of the United States Code.(Repealed...
  • Section 20033.
    “Federal system” means the old age, survivors, disability, and health insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec....
  • Section 20034.
    The highest annual average compensation during any consecutive 12- or 36-month period of employment as a member of any retirement system maintained by the university...
  • Section 20035.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 20037, “final compensation” for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state member who retires or dies on...
  • Section 20035.2.
    Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a patrol member who retires or...
  • Section 20035.21.
    Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a patrol member who retires or...
  • Section 20035.3.
    Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous or peace officer/firefighter...
  • Section 20035.4.
    Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a member who retires or dies...
  • Section 20035.5.
    Notwithstanding Section 20037, “final compensation” for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a school member who retires or dies on...
  • Section 20035.6.
    Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a member who retires or dies...
  • Section 20035.9.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous member (1) who...
  • Section 20035.10.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous member (1) who...
  • Section 20035.11.
    (a) For purposes of this section, “pay letter” means the set of instructions issued by the Department of Human Resources to the Controller and other state...
  • Section 20036.
    In the computation of the disability retirement allowance payable upon the retirement of a member for industrial disability, final compensation shall be determined only with...
  • Section 20037.
    For a state member, or for a local member who is an employee of a contracting agency that is subject to this section, “final compensation”...
  • Section 20037.5.
    Notwithstanding Section 20035, “final compensation” for a state member who has elected to be subject to Section 21353.5, for the purposes of determining any pension...
  • Section 20037.6.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.7.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.8.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.9.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.10.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.11.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.12.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.13.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to benefits based on service with the state, “final...
  • Section 20037.14.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member...
  • Section 20037.15.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3517.8, 20035, and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed for the first time and becomes a member of the system...
  • Section 20039.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, “final compensation” of a local member for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit resulting from state...
  • Section 20039.5.
    Notwithstanding Article 5 (commencing with Section 20350) of Chapter 3, or any other provision of this part, “final compensation” for the purposes of determining any...
  • Section 20040.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, “final compensation,” for the purposes of determining any benefits payable under this part for coverage under the Second...
  • Section 20042.
    On the election of a contracting agency, other than a county superintendent of schools with respect to a contract under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section...
  • Section 20044.
    “Fiscal year” is any year commencing on July 1st and ending with June 30th next following.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2....
  • Section 20045.
    “Highway patrol service” means service rendered as a member of the California Highway Patrol, only while the member is receiving compensation from the state for...
  • Section 20046.
    “Industrial,” in reference to the death or disability of any member of this system who is in a membership category under which special benefits are...
  • Section 20046.5.
    “Industrial” with respect to state miscellaneous members also means death or disability on or after January 1, 1995, resulting from an injury that is a...
  • Section 20047.
    “Industrial” with respect to state miscellaneous members also means death or disability after January 1, 1993, resulting from an injury that is a direct consequence...
  • Section 20047.5.
    “Industrial,” with respect to state miscellaneous members, means death or disability on or after January 1, 2002, or the date agreed to in the memorandum...
  • Section 20048.
    “Industrial,” with respect to state industrial members, means death or disability resulting from an injury that is a direct consequence of a violent act perpetrated...
  • Section 20049.
    “Labor policy or agreement” means any written policy, agreement, memorandum of understanding, legislative action of the elected or appointed body governing the employer, or any...
  • Section 20050.
    “Local safety service” means state service rendered as a local firefighter, local police officer, county peace officer, local safety officer, or positions defined as local...
  • Section 20051.
    “Month,” except as otherwise expressly provided, means a period commencing on any day of a calendar month and extending through the day preceding the corresponding...
  • Section 20052.
    “Net earnings” means the earnings of the retirement fund less the amounts specified in Sections 20173 and 20174.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2....
  • Section 20053.
    “Normal contributions” means contributions required to be paid by a member at the normal rates of contribution fixed by the law, by contract, or by...
  • Section 20054.
    “Pension” means payments for life derived from contributions made from employer controlled funds.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
  • Section 20055.
    (a) “Prior service” as applied to a state member who while employed on a part-time basis became a member because of amendments of the laws governing...
  • Section 20056.
    “Public agency” means any city, county, district, other local authority or public body of or within this state.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2....
  • Section 20057.
    “Public agency” also includes the following:(a) The Commandant, Veterans’ Home of California, with respect to employees of the Veterans’ Home Exchange and other post fund activities...
  • Section 20057.1.
    To qualify as a “public agency” within the meaning of this part, any organization that qualifies under amendments to the definitions of “public agency” effective...
  • Section 20058.
    (a) “Retirement system” or “this system” means the Public Employees’ Retirement System.(b) As used in this code and in every other statute heretofore or hereafter enacted, or...
  • Section 20059.
    “Regular interest” means interest at the annual interest rate for purposes of crediting of interest, compounded annually.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective...
  • Section 20060.
    “Retirement” means the granting of a retirement allowance under this part.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
  • Section 20061.
    “Retirement allowance” means the service retirement allowance or the disability retirement allowance.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
  • Section 20062.
    “Retirement fund” means the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund continued in existence by this part.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
  • Section 20062.5.
    “Risk pool” means the combination of assets and liabilities with respect to one or more contracting agencies for the purpose of pooling actuarial experience and...
  • Section 20063.
    (a) “School employer” means a county superintendent of schools, other than the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools and the San Diego County Superintendent of Schools,...
  • Section 20064.
    “School safety service” includes service rendered as a school safety member in employment with a school district or community college district, as defined in subdivision...
  • Section 20065.
    An employee is “serving on a part-time basis” when he or she engages in his or her duties for less time than is required of...
  • Section 20065.5.
    All references to “spouse,” “surviving spouse,” or “marriage” in this part apply equally to a domestic partner or domestic partnership, as defined in Section 297...
  • Section 20066.
    “State peace officer/firefighter service” means service rendered as a state peace officer/firefighter member only while receiving compensation for that service, except as provided in Article...
  • Section 20067.
    “State peace officer/firefighter service,” with respect to a member who becomes a state peace officer/firefighter member pursuant to Section 20394, also includes service prior to...
  • Section 20068.
    (a) “State safety service” means service rendered as a state safety member only while receiving compensation for that service, except as provided in Article 4 (commencing...
  • Section 20069.
    (a) “State service” means service rendered as an employee or officer (employed, appointed, or elected) of the state, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the...
  • Section 20069.1.
    “Trial court” shall have the same meaning as the term is defined in the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with...
  • Section 20070.
    “1959 survivor allowance” means the allowance provided for in Sections 21571, 21572, 21573, 21574, 21574.5, and 21574.7.(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 793, Sec. 3. Effective...
  • Section 20071.
    “University” means the University of California and includes The Regents of the University of California as defined and authorized by Section 9 of Article IX...

Last modified: October 22, 2018