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Gov. Code, § 21354.4 · Article 4. Retirement for Service

Gov. Code, § 21354.4

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuity that is derived from the accumulated normal contributions of the member at the date of retirement, to equal the fraction of one-fiftieth of the member’s final compensation set forth opposite the member’s age at retirement, taken to the preceding completed quarter year, in the following table, multiplied by the number of years of current and prior service except service in a category of membership other than that of local miscellaneous member with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:

Age at

Retirement Fraction

50 ...... 1.0000

50¼ ...... 1.0125

50½ ...... 1.0250

50¾ ...... 1.0375

51 ...... 1.0500

51¼ ...... 1.0625

51½ ...... 1.0750

51¾ ...... 1.0875

52 ...... 1.1000

52¼ ...... 1.1125

52½ ...... 1.1250

52¾ ...... 1.1375

53 ...... 1.1500

53¼ ...... 1.1625

53½ ...... 1.1750

53¾ ...... 1.1875

54 ...... 1.2000

54¼ ...... 1.2125

54½ ...... 1.2250

54¾ ...... 1.2375

55 and over ...... 1.2500

(b) The fraction specified in the above table shall be reduced by one-third as applied to that part of final compensation that does not exceed four hundred dollars ($400) per month for all service of a member any of whose service has been included in the federal system. This reduction shall not apply to a member employed by a contracting agency that enters into a contract after July 1, 1971, and who elects not to be subject to this subdivision or with respect to service rendered after the termination of coverage under the federal system with respect to the coverage group to which the member belongs.

(c) This section shall supersede Sections 21353, 21354, and 21354.1, with respect to a local miscellaneous member who is employed by a contracting agency on or after the date this section becomes applicable to the contracting agency.

(d) This section shall not apply to a contracting agency nor its employees until the contracting agency elects to make all local miscellaneous members subject to it by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts or in the case of a new contract, by express provision of the contract. The operative date of this section with respect to a local miscellaneous member shall be the effective date of the amendment to his or her employer’s contract electing to be subject to this section.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 118, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 2007.

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