{"code":"GOV","codeName":"Government Code","section":"31739.33","citation":"Gov. Code, § 31739.33","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"TITLE 3. GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES [23000. - 33205.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-3"},{"name":"DIVISION 4. EMPLOYEES [31000. - 33017.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-3/division-4"},{"name":"PART 3. RETIREMENT SYSTEMS [31200. - 33017.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-3/division-4/part-3"},{"name":"CHAPTER 3. County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 [31450. - 31898.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-3/division-4/part-3/chapter-3"},{"name":"ARTICLE 10. Disability Retirement [31720. - 31755.4.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-3/division-4/part-3/chapter-3/article-10"}],"history":"Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 179, Sec. 104.   Effective January 1, 2009.","effective":"2009-01-01","html":"<p>(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including an allowance payable to a survivor of a member, payable to or on account of any member of this system or of a superseded system who has been or was retired for disability which did not on July 1, 1976, exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per month is hereby increased as follows: </p><table><colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of years of</p></td><td><p>Percentage of increase</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> county or district</p></td><td><p>in monthly retirement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>service</p></td><td><p>allowance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 or more years </p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20–25 years </p></td><td><p> 8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15–20 years </p></td><td><p> 6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(b) No allowance shall be increased to more than five hundred dollars ($500) per month pursuant to subdivision (a).</p><p>This section shall not be operative in a county until such time as the board of supervisors shall, by resolution adopted by majority vote, make the provisions of this section applicable in that county.</p>","text":"(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including an allowance payable to a survivor of a member, payable to or on account of any member of this system or of a superseded system who has been or was retired for disability which did not on July 1, 1976, exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per month is hereby increased as follows: Number of years of Percentage of increase county or district in monthly retirement service allowance 25 or more years 10% 20–25 years 8% 15–20 years 6% (b) No allowance shall be increased to more than five hundred dollars ($500) per month pursuant to subdivision (a). This section shall not be operative in a county until such time as the board of supervisors shall, by resolution adopted by majority vote, make the provisions of this section applicable in that county.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/disability-retirement-31739-33","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}