Gov. Code, § 21679 · Chapter 16. Deferred Compensation
Gov. Code, § 21679
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The officers and employees of this system shall discharge their duties with respect to the tax-preferred retirement savings program solely in the interest of the participants in the following manner:
(a) For the exclusive purpose of providing tax-preferred retirement savings to participants and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the program.
(b) In the selection of investment options with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with those matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims.
(c) By diversifying the investment options available to participants so as to minimize the risk of large losses and by using reasonable diligence to accurately inform all employees and participants as to all options.
(d) In accordance with the documents and instruments governing the programs insofar as those documents and instruments are consistent with this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 639, Sec. 15. (SB 1139) Effective January 1, 2011.
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