Gov. Code, § 31739.33 · Article 10. Disability Retirement
Gov. Code, § 31739.33
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(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including an allowance payable to a survivor of a member, payable to or on account of any member of this system or of a superseded system who has been or was retired for disability which did not on July 1, 1976, exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per month is hereby increased as follows: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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 179, Sec. 104. Effective January 1, 2009.
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