Article 5. Redeposit Of Contributions of California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 5.

Subject to regulations adopted by the board, a member may file an election with the board to redeposit in the retirement fund, in a lump sum or by installment payments, (1) an amount equal to the accumulated contributions that he or she has withdrawn at one or more terminations of service, or for one withdrawal at a time, but in reverse chronological order in which they occurred, and (2) an amount equal to the interest that would have been credited to his or her account to the date of completion of payments had the contributions not been withdrawn, and (3) if he or she elects to redeposit in other than one sum, interest on the unpaid balance of the amount payable to the retirement fund, beginning on the date of the election to redeposit, as if the member interest crediting rate in effect on the date of the election to redeposit had been and continued to be in effect through the completion of the payments.

If a nonmember, as defined in Section 21291, withdraws accumulated contributions in accordance with Section 21292, the member may redeposit those contributions pursuant to this article.

A member whose right to redeposit contributions has been awarded in part to a nonmember, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 21290, may elect to redeposit contributions for the same amount that the nonmember was entitled to redeposit, if the nonmember has permanently waived all rights in the system by effecting a refund of accumulated contributions pursuant to Section 21292. A member electing to redeposit contributions pursuant to this section shall make the redeposit pursuant to Section 20750.

(a) A member of the Judges' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System II, the Legislators' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, the University of California Retirement Plan, or a county retirement system, who has withdrawn accumulated contributions from this system shall have the right to redeposit those contributions, subject to the same conditions as imposed for redeposits of accumulated contributions by Section 20750, including the rights that he or she would have had under Section 20638 had he or she not withdrawn his or her contributions.
  (b) Provisions of this section extending a right to redeposit accumulated contributions withdrawn from this system shall also apply to members of any retirement system established under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 45300) of Division 5 of Title 4 with respect to which an ordinance complying with Section 45310.5 has been filed with, and accepted by, the board or any retirement system established by, or pursuant to, the charter of a city or city and county or by any other public agency of this state which system, in the opinion of the board, provides a similar modification of rights and benefits because of membership in this system and with respect to which the governing body of the city, city and county or public agency and the board have entered into agreement pursuant to Section 20351.
  (c) A member who elects to redeposit under this section shall have the same rights as a member who has elected pursuant to Section 20731 to leave his or her accumulated contributions on deposit in the fund.

Contributions due to this system because of salary earned after reentry into state service following withdrawal and prior to redeposit of accumulated contributions, but not paid to this system because of termination of state service before completion of the necessary administrative procedures, shall be administered upon subsequent reentry into this system, as if the member had withdrawn the contributions, and the termination of state service shall be considered as a termination of membership.

Any amount that a member elected to pay under any election with respect to normal contributions permitted under this part prior to withdrawal of accumulated contributions, including amounts unpaid at the time of the withdrawal, and any amount of arrears contributions then unpaid shall be included, upon subsequent reentry into this system, in the amount of withdrawn contributions for purposes of redeposit under this article. Upon the redeposit of withdrawn contributions, a member shall be entitled to all rights accruing from that election with respect to normal contributions in all respects as though payment had been completed at the time of the withdrawal of accumulated contributions.

Upon reentering this system after a termination of his or her membership, if a member does not elect to redeposit withdrawn contributions as provided in Section 20750 or, having so elected, subsequently does not make the redeposit, he or she reenters as a new member without credit for any service except the prior service credited to him or her before termination and any service that is credited prior to termination of membership pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 20340.

Benefits based on service credited under this article and Article 4 (commencing with Section 20730), where the service credit is derived from a member's redeposit of contributions, shall be paid from contributions of the employer or employers which is or are the source of the contributions redeposited by the member. The employer liability in this regard shall be limited only to its contributions and no employer shall be liable for any portion of the member's own contributions. All employer contributions, for purposes of this article, shall be made by adjustment of the employer's rate of contribution.