Section 20475 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
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. Notwithstanding Section 20474, a contracting agency may
amend its contract or previous amendments to its contract, without
election among its employees, to reduce benefits, to terminate
provisions that are available only by election of the agency to
become subject thereto, to provide different benefits or provisions
or to provide a combination of those changes with respect to service
performed after the effective date of the contract amendment made
pursuant to this section, if the contracting agency has fully
discharged all of the obligations imposed by Chapter 10 (commencing
with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 with respect to the
contract amendments, and if the amendment provides that:
(a) The contract amendments apply uniformly with respect to all
members within each of the following classifications: local
miscellaneous members, local police officers, local firefighters,
county peace officers, local sheriffs, local safety members, school
safety members, or all local safety members other than local police
officers, local firefighters, county peace officers, local sheriffs,
local safety members, or school safety members.
(b) A member shall be subject to the contract as amended only if,
after the effective date of the contract amendment, the member either
(1) receives service credit for the first time within a
classification, or (2) the member returns to service within a
classification following termination of membership as provided for in
subdivision (b) of Section 20340 unless the member has redeposited
or elects prior to 90 days after returning to service to redeposit
contributions pursuant to Section 20750, in which case the member
shall not be subject to the contract amendment.
Amendments to the contract and amendments of previous amendments
to the contract may be effected pursuant to this section only once
during any three-year period with respect to each of the
classifications.