California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 21492.
  The designation of a beneficiary under the optional settlements in Sections 21456, 21457, 21459, 21475, 21475.5, 21476, 21476.5, and 21477, and in Section 21458, if...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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....
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 21502.
  If any person entitled to a benefit from this system is a minor who has no guardian of the estate, the board, if within the...
• Section 21503.
  The board may select an optional settlement under Article 6 (commencing with Section 21450) or Article 7 (commencing with Section 21470) of Chapter 13, as...
• Section 21504.
  If a member dies on or after the effective date of retirement and prior to the mailing of a retirement allowance warrant and if the...
• Section 21505.
  If a member who has been retired for service because he or she has attained the mandatory age of retirement applicable to members of his...
• Section 21506.
  Any monthly allowance payable to a person, that had accrued and remained unpaid at the time of his or her death, or any uncashed warrant...
• Section 21507.
  Any lump-sum benefit, or any uncashed lump-sum death benefit warrant, payable by this system to a beneficiary shall be paid to the estate of the...
• Section 21508.
  If any benefit is payable by this system to the estate of a deceased person, and the estate would not be probated if no amount...
• Section 21509.
  The provisions of Part 5 (commencing with Section 220) of Division 2 of the Probate Code, when applicable, govern the distribution of money payable under...
• Section 21510.
  Any payment of benefits by warrant issued after the date of death of the benefit recipient shall be refunded to the retirement system.(Added by Stats....

Last modified: October 22, 2018