California Government Code ARTICLE 5 - Credit for Public Service

• Section 21020.
  “Public service” for purposes of this article means the following:(a) The period of time an employee served the state, a school employer, or a contracting agency...
• Section 21020.5.
  (a) “Public service” also means time, on or after October 14, 1991, during which a person was employed under the California Senate Fellows, the Assembly Fellowship,...
• Section 21021.
  “Public service” for the employee of a student body organization, that is not a contracting agency, of a community college, means the period of employment...
• Section 21022.
  “Public service,” with respect to a local member who is a full-time employee, also means any time on or after January 1, 1981, but not...
• Section 21023.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a state member, other than a university member, also means the following:(1) Time during which the member was a prisoner of...
• Section 21023.5.
  (a) “Public service” for purposes of this article also means time served, not to exceed three years, as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps VISTA...
• Section 21024.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a local member, other than a school member, also means active service with the Armed Forces or the Merchant Marine...
• Section 21024.5.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a member who is a local firefighter also means time served, before becoming a member, as a permanent career civilian...
• Section 21025.
  “Public service” with respect to a local member also means service rendered to a public agency if that agency or a function of that agency...
• Section 21025.5.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a school member or a retired school member also means service rendered on or after June 30, 1977, and prior...
• Section 21026.
  “Public service” with respect to a local member also means service rendered to any California nonprofit corporation whose function is to serve firefighters employed by...
• Section 21027.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a local member who retired pursuant to this part before the effective date of the election of his or her...
• Section 21028.
  “Public service” also means service in temporary, seasonal, limited term, on call, emergency, intermittent, substitute, or other irregular employment in which a person is excluded...
• Section 21029.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a state member or a school member or with respect to a retired former state employee or a retired former...
• Section 21029.5.
  (a) “Public service” with respect to a state member also means all periods of service rendered as an officer, warrant officer, or a person in the...
• Section 21030.
  (a) “Public service” for purposes of this article also means employment under a program sponsored by, and financed at least in part by, the Comprehensive Employment...
• Section 21031.
  (a) “Public service” also means employment by a contracting agency before the effective date of its contract with the board, and is limited to that portion...
• Section 21032.
  A member may elect at any time prior to retirement, in accordance with regulations of the board, to receive credit for public service, under any...
• Section 21033.
  A member electing to receive credit for public service shall contribute in a lump sum or by installment payments over that period and subject to...
• Section 21034.
  Public service may be credited as current or prior service, or both, as it would be credited if the member had been in state service...
• Section 21035.
  Benefits based on service credited under this article in excess of the portion paid from member contributions shall be paid from the contributions of the...
• Section 21037.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following shall apply:(a) A member who has elected to receive credit for service by contributing in installments and who...
• Section 21038.
  All contributions of a member under this article shall be considered to be and shall be administered as normal contributions.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1996,...
• Section 21039.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a safety member, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 20371, who has elected to receive credit for service...

Last modified: October 22, 2018