ARTICLE 2. Definitions

Article 2 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2.

§§ 20010–20071 · 88 sections

§ 20010 “Accumulated additional contributions” means the sum of all additional contributions standing to the credit of a member’s individual account, and interest…
§ 20011 “Accumulated contributions” means accumulated normal contributions plus any accumulated additional contributions standing to the credit of a member’s account.
§ 20012 “Accumulated normal contributions” means the sum of all normal contributions standing to the credit of a member’s individual account, and interest thereon.
§ 20013 “Actuarial equivalent” means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted and the actuarial interest rate fixed by the…
§ 20014 “Actuarial interest rate” means the interest rate fixed by the board for purposes of actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of this system.
§ 20015 “Actuary” means an actuary regularly employed on a full-time or part-time basis by the board.
§ 20016 “Additional contributions” means contributions made by members and their employers in addition to their normal contributions under Article 2 (commencing with…
§ 20017 “Annual interest rate” means the net earnings rate reduced by 110 basis points for purposes of crediting interest.
§ 20018 “Annuity” means payments for life derived from contributions made by a member.
§ 20019 “Beneficiary” means any person or corporation designated by a member, a retired member, or by statute to receive a benefit payable under this part, on account…
§ 20020 “Benefit” means the retirement allowance, basic death benefit, limited death benefit, special death benefit, any monthly allowance for survivors of a member or…
§ 20021 “Board” means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System.
§ 20022 “Contracting agency” means any public agency that has elected to have all or any part of its employees become members of this system and that has contracted…
§ 20023 “County peace officer service” shall include service rendered in the sheriff’s office of a city and county in positions that were subsequently reclassified as…
§ 20023.5 “County retirement system” means a retirement system established under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 31450) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 3, the County…
§ 20024 “Current service” means all state service rendered by a member on and after the date upon which he or she first became a member, service in employment while…
§ 20025 “Dependent,” in reference to any benefit provided, upon the death of a member, for a surviving dependent parent, or parent dependent upon the member for…
§ 20026 “Disability” and “incapacity for performance of duty” as a basis of retirement, mean disability of permanent or extended duration, which is expected to last at…
§ 20027 “Disability,” “disabled,” or “incapacitated” means, with respect to qualification for an allowance payable to a surviving child, inability to engage in any…
§ 20027.5 (a) “Electronic funds transfer” means any transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check, draft, or similar paper instrument, that is…
§ 20028 “Employee” means all of the following: (a) Any person in the employ of the state, a county superintendent of schools, or the university whose compensation, or…
§ 20029 “Employee federal contributions” means those contributions required of employees under the federal system with respect to wages paid to individuals who perform…
§ 20030 “Employer” means the state, the university, a school employer, and any contracting agency employing an employee.
§ 20031 “Employer federal contributions” means those contributions required of employers under the federal system with respect to wages paid to individuals who perform…
§ 20032 “Federal-state agreement” means the agreement or any modification thereof executed by the board pursuant to Section 418 of Title 42 of the United States Code.
§ 20033 “Federal system” means the old age, survivors, disability, and health insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.
§ 20034 The highest annual average compensation during any consecutive 12- or 36-month period of employment as a member of any retirement system maintained by the…
§ 20035 (a) Notwithstanding Section 20037, “final compensation” for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state member who retires or…
§ 20035.2 Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a patrol member who…
§ 20035.21 Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a patrol member who…
§ 20035.3 Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous or…
§ 20035.4 Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a member who retires or…
§ 20035.5 Notwithstanding Section 20037, “final compensation” for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a school member who retires or dies…
§ 20035.6 Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a member who retires or…
§ 20035.9 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous…
§ 20035.10 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, “final compensation,” for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous…
§ 20035.11 (a) For purposes of this section, “pay letter” means the set of instructions issued by the Department of Human Resources to the Controller and other state…
§ 20036 In the computation of the disability retirement allowance payable upon the retirement of a member for industrial disability, final compensation shall be…
§ 20037 For a state member, or for a local member who is an employee of a contracting agency that is subject to this section, “final compensation” means the highest…
§ 20037.5 Notwithstanding Section 20035, “final compensation” for a state member who has elected to be subject to Section 21353.5, for the purposes of determining any…
§ 20037.6 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.7 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.8 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.9 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.10 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.11 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.12 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.13 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to benefits based on service with the state,…
§ 20037.14 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the…
§ 20037.15 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3517.8, 20035, and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed for the first time and becomes a member of the system on…
§ 20039 Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, “final compensation” of a local member for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit resulting from…
§ 20039.5 Notwithstanding Article 5 (commencing with Section 20350) of Chapter 3, or any other provision of this part, “final compensation” for the purposes of…
§ 20040 Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, “final compensation,” for the purposes of determining any benefits payable under this part for coverage under…
§ 20042 On the election of a contracting agency, other than a county superintendent of schools with respect to a contract under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section…
§ 20044 “Fiscal year” is any year commencing on July 1st and ending with June 30th next following.
§ 20045 “Highway patrol service” means service rendered as a member of the California Highway Patrol, only while the member is receiving compensation from the state…
§ 20046 “Industrial,” in reference to the death or disability of any member of this system who is in a membership category under which special benefits are provided by…
§ 20046.5 “Industrial” with respect to state miscellaneous members also means death or disability on or after January 1, 1995, resulting from an injury that is a direct…
§ 20047 “Industrial” with respect to state miscellaneous members also means death or disability after January 1, 1993, resulting from an injury that is a direct…
§ 20047.5 “Industrial,” with respect to state miscellaneous members, means death or disability on or after January 1, 2002, or the date agreed to in the memorandum of…
§ 20048 “Industrial,” with respect to state industrial members, means death or disability resulting from an injury that is a direct consequence of a violent act…
§ 20049 “Labor policy or agreement” means any written policy, agreement, memorandum of understanding, legislative action of the elected or appointed body governing the…
§ 20050 “Local safety service” means state service rendered as a local firefighter, local police officer, county peace officer, local safety officer, or positions…
§ 20051 “Month,” except as otherwise expressly provided, means a period commencing on any day of a calendar month and extending through the day preceding the…
§ 20052 “Net earnings” means the earnings of the retirement fund less the amounts specified in Sections 20173 and 20174.
§ 20053 “Normal contributions” means contributions required to be paid by a member at the normal rates of contribution fixed by the law, by contract, or by contract…
§ 20054 “Pension” means payments for life derived from contributions made from employer controlled funds.
§ 20055 (a) “Prior service” as applied to a state member who while employed on a part-time basis became a member because of amendments of the laws governing this…
§ 20056 “Public agency” means any city, county, district, other local authority or public body of or within this state.
§ 20057 “Public agency” also includes the following: (a) The Commandant, Veterans’ Home of California, with respect to employees of the Veterans’ Home Exchange and…
§ 20057.1 To qualify as a “public agency” within the meaning of this part, any organization that qualifies under amendments to the definitions of “public agency”…
§ 20058 (a) “Retirement system” or “this system” means the Public Employees’ Retirement System. (b) As used in this code and in every other statute heretofore or…
§ 20059 “Regular interest” means interest at the annual interest rate for purposes of crediting of interest, compounded annually.
§ 20060 “Retirement” means the granting of a retirement allowance under this part.
§ 20061 “Retirement allowance” means the service retirement allowance or the disability retirement allowance.
§ 20062 “Retirement fund” means the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund continued in existence by this part.
§ 20062.5 “Risk pool” means the combination of assets and liabilities with respect to one or more contracting agencies for the purpose of pooling actuarial experience…
§ 20063 (a) “School employer” means a county superintendent of schools, other than the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools and the San Diego County…
§ 20064 “School safety service” includes service rendered as a school safety member in employment with a school district or community college district, as defined in…
§ 20065 An employee is “serving on a part-time basis” when he or she engages in his or her duties for less time than is required of employees serving on a full-time…
§ 20065.5 All references to “spouse,” “surviving spouse,” or “marriage” in this part apply equally to a domestic partner or domestic partnership, as defined in Section…
§ 20066 “State peace officer/firefighter service” means service rendered as a state peace officer/firefighter member only while receiving compensation for that…
§ 20067 “State peace officer/firefighter service,” with respect to a member who becomes a state peace officer/firefighter member pursuant to Section 20394, also…
§ 20068 (a) “State safety service” means service rendered as a state safety member only while receiving compensation for that service, except as provided in Article 4…
§ 20069 (a) “State service” means service rendered as an employee or officer (employed, appointed, or elected) of the state, the California Institute for Regenerative…
§ 20069.1 “Trial court” shall have the same meaning as the term is defined in the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with…
§ 20070 “1959 survivor allowance” means the allowance provided for in Sections 21571, 21572, 21573, 21574, 21574.5, and 21574.7.
§ 20071 “University” means the University of California and includes The Regents of the University of California as defined and authorized by Section 9 of Article IX…