California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

• Section 22000.
  It is the policy of the Legislature that the protection afforded employees in positions covered by a retirement system on the date an agreement under...
• Section 22001.
  All liabilities and obligations created by Chapter 46 of the Statutes of 1950, Third Extraordinary Session, and amendments thereto or by Chapter 10 of the...
• Section 22002.
  Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the constructions of this part.(Repealed and added by Stats....
• Section 22003.
  Whenever reference is made in this part to any federal law or regulation or part thereof, the reference applies to all amendments thereto now or...
• Section 22004.
  “Board” shall have the following meanings: Until July 1, 1955, “board” means the Director of Finance. On and after July 1, 1955, “board” means the...
• Section 22005.
  “Federal agency” means the Department of Health and Human Services or the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the predecessor or successor in function...
• Section 22006.
  “Agreement” means the agreement or any modification thereof now, heretofore or hereafter executed by the board with the federal agency pursuant to this part or...
• Section 22007.
  “Eligible employee” means an employee whose services may under the provisions of Section 218 of Title II of the Social Security Act and this part...
• Section 22008.
  “Eligible retirement system employee” for the purposes of any referendum with respect to any retirement system has the meaning given the term “eligible employee” in...
• Section 22009.
  “Public agency” means the state, any city, county, city and county, district, municipal or public corporation or any instrumentality thereof, or boards and committees established...
• Section 22009.01.
  “Public agency” also includes any nonprofit corporation formed for the purpose of operating a coliseum or sports arena for the general recreational purposes of a...
• Section 22009.02.
  “Public agency” also includes a county superintendent of schools whose office the board has determined to be fiscally independent. As to such office, the county...
• Section 22009.03.
  “Public agency” also includes a school district, a county superintendent of schools, and a regional occupational center or program established pursuant to Article 1 (commencing...
• Section 22009.1.
  “Retirement system” includes:(a) A pension, annuity, retirement or similar fund or system established by a public agency and covering only positions of that agency.(b) The Public Employees’...
• Section 22010.
  “Coverage group” has the meaning given that term by Section 218(b)(5) of Title II of the Social Security Act and federal regulations adopted pursuant thereto.(Added...
• Section 22011.
  “Retirement system coverage group,” with respect to any retirement system, means all employees designated as a coverage group in Section 218(d)(4) of the Social Security...
• Section 22012.
  “Federal system” means the insurance system established under Title II of the Social Security Act.(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1353.)
• Section 22013.
  “Policeman” as used in this part includes members of the California Highway Patrol, state safety members of the Public Employees’ Retirement System employed by the...
• Section 22013.1.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in the Department of Fish and Game in connection with its warden service, whose principal...
• Section 22013.2.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes members of the Department of the California Highway Patrol who are designated as peace officers under subdivision...
• Section 22013.3.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Section 20403 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the...
• Section 22013.4.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons designated by Section 31470.6 as persons whose principal duties consist of “active law enforcement” for the...
• Section 22013.5.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed as members of a state university or state college police department who are peace officers...
• Section 22013.6.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Sections 20438 and 31469.4 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A)...
• Section 22013.7.
  “Policeman” or “fireman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Sections 20414, 20423.3, 20423.5, and 20441 for the...
• Section 22013.75.
  “Policeman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions identified in Section 20407 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the Social...
• Section 22013.76.
  “Policeman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions identified in Section 20408 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the Social...
• Section 22013.77.
  “Policeman,” as used in this part, also includes persons designated as peace officers by subdivision (e) of Section 20391 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A)...
• Section 22013.78.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons currently employed in classifications listed in Sections 20401.5, 20423.6, 31469.2, 45311, and 53217.6 for purposes of...
• Section 22013.8.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in classifications listed in Sections 20405 and 20405.1, for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of...
• Section 22013.85.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in the classification listing in Section 20411 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the...
• Section 22013.9.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Section 20406 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the...
• Section 22013.95.
  “Policeman” or “fireman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Section 20393 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)...
• Section 22013.955.
  “Policeman” as used in this part also includes persons employed in the classifications set forth in Section 20397 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of...
• Section 22013.96.
  “Policeman” or “fireman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Section 20395, as amended in 1984 for the...
• Section 22013.97.
  “Policeman” or “fireman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Section 20398 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A)...
• Section 22013.98.
  For purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 418(d)(5)(A)):(a) “Fireman,” as used in this part, also includes any employee of the...
• Section 22013.10.a.
  “Policeman” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Section 20415 for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the...
• Section 22013.11.
  “Policeman” or “fireman,” as used in this part, also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Sections 20409 and 20410 for the purposes of...
• Section 22014.
  “Fireman” as used in this part means any employee of the Division of Forestry, Department of Conservation, employed to perform duties now performed under the...
• Section 22014.1.
  “Fireman” as used in this part also means any officer or employee of a county having a population in excess of 5,000,000 who is employed...
• Section 22014.5.
  “Fireman” as used in this part includes persons employed as “campus firefighter” and other persons employed in positions described in Section 20412 for the purposes...
• Section 22015.
  “Member,” with respect to any retirement system, for the purposes provided in Section 218 (d)(6)(E) of the Social Security Act, shall include in addition to...
• Section 22016.
  For the purposes of this part, persons employed by a county superintendent of schools and whose salaries are paid from the county school service fund...
• Section 22017.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state and any public agency may establish a separate object of appropriation or a subobject of appropriation within...
• Section 22018.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, to the extent possible, members of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan earn credit towards Medicare coverage.(b) In accomplishing...

Last modified: October 22, 2018