Section 24924 Of Article 2. Administration Of The Plan From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 13. >> Chapter 35. >> Article 2.
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. (a) A plan established under this chapter that is intended
to provide supplemental benefits only on account of service rendered
before July 1, 1944, may be discontinued by the governing board of
the district, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Notwithstanding Sections 35161, 35162, Article 1 (commencing
with Section 7000) of Chapter 1, Article 2 (commencing with Section
10010) of Chapter 1 of Part 7, Article 1 (commencing with Section
12500) of Chapter 5 of Part 8, this part, Article 5 (commencing with
Section 32340) of Chapter 3 of Part 19, and Part 25 (commencing with
Section 44000), any teacher who is not retired on July 1, 1956, shall
be entitled to the contributions made by him or her to the
discontinued plan with interest credited in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the local retirement plan up to and including
June 30, 1957. Likewise, a teacher who retired prior to July 1, 1956,
shall be entitled to a refund equal to the actuarial equivalent, at
his or her attained age, of the annuity that would have been provided
by the total contributions required of the member under the system,
based on interest and mortality tables currently in use, less the
amount of any contributions remaining unpaid on the date of
discontinuance. The amount to which any teacher is entitled under
this section shall be paid to him or her within 90 days of his or her
request in writing on a form provided by and filed with the local
retirement system. All requests shall be filed prior to July 1, 1959.
(2) The district in which the plan is discontinued shall pay
monthly to teachers, who were retired prior to the date of the
discontinuance, an amount equal to the amount by which the retirement
allowance to which any of these retired teachers was entitled under
the plan exceeds the increase in the teacher's retirement allowance
under the State Teachers' Retirement System after the discontinuance.
In lieu of the monthly payment, the district may elect to pay in a
single sum the amount that shall be the actuarial equivalent to the
monthly amount thereafter payable, according to the interest rate and
mortality table currently in use under the plan. Payment of the
amount shall discharge fully the district's liability to the teacher
under this subdivision. The arrangement under which the amounts are
paid by the district shall not be considered to be a local retirement
system for the purposes of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 22000)
to Chapter 31 (commencing with Section 24600), inclusive, nor shall
the amount be taken into account in the calculation of the retirement
allowances under the State Teachers' Retirement System.
(b) Any person who was retired prior to July 1, 1956, from a
position requisite for membership in the State Teachers' Retirement
System, under a district supplemental retirement salary plan which
has been discontinued pursuant to this section, and elected either
under the plan or under the system, but not under both, to have a
portion of his or her retirement allowance modified according to an
option under which he or she would receive a smaller allowance and
provide for a benefit for his or her beneficiary, that person shall
have the right, to be exercised not later than 60 days after July 5,
1956, to change his or her election under the State Teachers'
Retirement System with respect to those options. Any computations of
actuarial equivalents under a changed election shall be made as of
the effective date, and no adjustment shall be included in the
computation on account of retirement allowance payments made prior to
that date.
(c) When any local retirement plan is discontinued under this
section, all funds remaining in the district retirement fund of the
local system shall be transferred to the general fund of the school
district in which the plan is discontinued. Thereafter any payments
to meet continuing obligations of the district arising from the
establishment or discontinuance of the plan shall be paid from the
general fund of the district.