California Government Code ARTICLE 10 - Disability Retirement

  • Section 31720.
    Any member permanently incapacitated for the performance of duty shall be retired for disability regardless of age if, and only if:(a) The member’s incapacity is a...
  • Section 31720.1.
    Notwithstanding Section 31720, any member covered under Section 31751 who is permanently incapacitated shall be retired for disability regardless of age if, and only if:(a) The...
  • Section 31720.3.
    In determining whether a member is eligible to retire for disability, the board shall not consider medical opinion unless it is deemed competent and shall...
  • Section 31720.4.
    (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 31720, a member who becomes permanently incapacitated for the performance of duty with his or her employing county or district...
  • Section 31720.5.
    (a) If a safety member, a fireman member, or a member in active law enforcement who has completed five years or more of service under a...
  • Section 31720.6.
    (a) If a safety member, a firefighter, or a member in active law enforcement who has completed five years or more of service under a pension...
  • Section 31720.7.
    (a) If a safety member, a firefighter, a county probation officer, or a member in active law enforcement develops a blood-borne infectious disease or a methicillin-resistant...
  • Section 31720.9.
    (a) If a peace officer member, as defined in Sections 830.1 to 830.5, inclusive, of the Penal Code, or firefighter member, with service under a pension...
  • Section 31721.
    (a) A member may be retired for disability upon the application of the member, the head of the office or department in which he is or...
  • Section 31722.
    The application shall be made while the member is in service, within four months after his or her discontinuance of service, within four months after...
  • Section 31723.
    The board may require such proof, including a medical examination at the expense of the member, as it deems necessary or the board upon its...
  • Section 31724.
    If the proof received, including any medical examination, shows to the satisfaction of the board that the member is permanently incapacitated physically or mentally for...
  • Section 31725.
    Permanent incapacity for the performance of duty shall in all cases be determined by the board.If the medical examination and other available information do not...
  • Section 31725.5.
    If the board finds, on medical advice, that a member in county employment, although incapacitated for the performance of his duties, is capable of performing...
  • Section 31725.6.
    (a) When the board finds, based on medical advice, that a member in county service is incapacitated for the performance of the member’s duties, the board...
  • Section 31725.65.
    (a) When the board finds, based on medical advice, that a member in county service is incapacitated for the performance of the member’s duties, the board...
  • Section 31725.7.
    (a) At any time after filing an application for disability retirement with the board, the member may, if eligible, apply for, and the board in its...
  • Section 31725.8.
    If any applicant for service-connected disability retirement is found by the board to be permanently physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of his duties...
  • Section 31726.
    Upon retirement for non-service-connected disability a member who has attained age 65 shall receive his or her service retirement allowance.Every member under age 65 who...
  • Section 31726.5.
    Upon retirement for nonservice-connected disability a safety member who has attained age 55 shall receive his or her service retirement allowance. Every safety member under...
  • Section 31727.
    The non-service-connected disability retirement pension shall be such an amount as with that portion of his annuity provided by his accumulated normal contributions will make...
  • Section 31727.01.
    Notwithstanding Sections 31727 and 31727.4, if the member is eligible to retire without relying upon service in another retirement system, the disability retirement pension of...
  • Section 31727.1.
    In counties adopting Section 31676.12, a member upon retirement for non-service-connected disability, who has attained age 62, shall receive his service retirement allowance.The non-service-connected disability...
  • Section 31727.2.
    The non-service-connected disability retirement pension for a safety member shall be such an amount as with that portion of his annuity provided by his accumulated...
  • Section 31727.3.
    In counties adopting Section 31676.15, the non-service-connected disability retirement pension shall be such an amount as with that portion of a member’s annuity provided by...
  • Section 31727.4.
    Upon retirement of any member for service-connected disability, he shall receive an annual retirement allowance payable in monthly installments, equal to one-half of his final...
  • Section 31727.5.
    The board of supervisors in any county, by a majority vote, may enact an ordinance providing that the maximum annual allowance payable to a member...
  • Section 31727.6.
    Every retirement allowance payable for time commencing on the effective date of this section to or on account of any member of this system who...
  • Section 31727.7.
    Upon retirement for nonservice-connected disability, in lieu of any other allowance, a member who has five years or more credited service shall receive a disability...
  • Section 31728.
    If, in the opinion of the board, the disability is due to intemperate use of alcoholic liquor or drugs, wilful misconduct, or violation of law...
  • Section 31728.1.
    Notwithstanding Section 31728, if, in the opinion of the board, the disability is due to willful misconduct or violation of law on the part of...
  • Section 31728.2.
    Notwithstanding Sections 31728 and 31728.1, if, in the opinion of the board, the disability is due to or results from the conviction of the member...
  • Section 31729.
    The board may require any disability beneficiary under age 55 to undergo medical examination. The examination shall be made by a physician or surgeon appointed...
  • Section 31730.
    If the board determines that the beneficiary is not incapacitated, and his or her employer offers to reinstate that beneficiary, his or her retirement allowance...
  • Section 31731.
    If any disability beneficiary under age 55 refuses to submit to medical examination, his pension shall be discontinued until his withdrawal of such refusal, and...
  • Section 31732.
    The board shall secure such medical, investigatory and other service and advice as is necessary to carry out the purpose of this article. Notwithstanding Section...
  • Section 31733.
    If a disability beneficiary is determined by the board to be no longer incapacitated and re-enters the service of a public agency covered by the...
  • Section 31737.
    If the retirement allowance of any disability beneficiary is canceled for any cause other than under Section 31733, he shall be paid his accumulated contributions,...
  • Section 31738.
    Each payment of a retirement allowance, after the effective date of this section, to a beneficiary who retired prior to September 20, 1947, shall be...
  • Section 31739.
    Every retirement allowance payable for time commencing on the effective date of this section to or on account of any member of this system or...
  • Section 31739.2.
    Every retirement allowance for time commencing on the effective date of this section to or on account of any member of this system or of...
  • Section 31739.3.
    Every retirement allowance payable for time commencing on the effective date of this section to or on account of any member of this system, or...
  • Section 31739.31.
    Every retirement allowance, optional death allowance, or annual death allowance (including an allowance payable to a survivor of a member) payable to or on account...
  • Section 31739.32.
    Every retirement allowance, optional death allowance, or annual death allowance, including an allowance payable to a survivor of a member, payable to or on account...
  • Section 31739.33.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a retirement allowance, optional death allowance, or annual death allowance, including an allowance payable to a survivor of a...
  • Section 31739.34.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, a retirement allowance, optional death allowance or annual death allowance, including an allowance payable to a...
  • Section 31739.4.
    Every retirement allowance payable during the time this section is operative in any county to, or on account of any member of this system or...
  • Section 31739.5.
    The provision in Section 31681.8, when adopted or readopted, shall apply to members of this system or a superseded system who retired for disability, except...
  • Section 31740.
    In any county which has implemented the provisions of Article 15.6 (commencing with Section 31855), any member who is thereafter retired for disability shall receive...
  • Section 31751.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law:(a) (1) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may make this section, Tier Two, applicable to officers and employees of...
  • Section 31752.
    This section shall apply to members subject to Section 31751. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the current service pension or the current service...
  • Section 31755.
    (a) (1) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may make this section, Tier Three, applicable to officers and employees for whom it is the governing...
  • Section 31755.1.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law:(a) (1) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding in accordance with the Meyers-Milias-Brown...
  • Section 31755.2.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law:(a) (1) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding in accordance with the Meyers-Milias-Brown...
  • Section 31755.3.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law:(a) (1) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding in accordance with the Meyers-Milias-Brown...
  • Section 31755.4.
    (a) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may, by adopting an ordinance, make this section applicable to officers and employees for whom the board...

Last modified: October 22, 2018