Section 20808 Of Chapter 9. Employer Contributions From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 9.
20808
. (a) The actuary may, in determining contributions required
of contracting agencies, establish a contribution with respect to
industrial disability allowances, special death benefits, and any
other death benefit, singly or in any combination, separate from and
independent of the contribution required for other benefits under
their contracts. The total contribution, in that case, for the
agencies as a group shall be established and from time to time
adjusted by actuarial valuation performed by the actuary of the
liability for the benefit or benefits on account of the employees of
all those agencies. Adjustments shall affect only future
contributions and shall take into account the difference between
contributions on hand and the amount required to fund the allowances
or benefits for which entitlement has already been established as
well as liability for future entitlements to benefits. The
contribution as so established and adjusted from time to time shall
be allocated between the agencies on a basis that, in the opinion of
the board, after recommendation of the actuary, provides an equitable
distribution between the agencies. However, the allocation shall not
be based on differences in the incidence of death or disability in
the respective agencies.
(b) (1) Whenever the board, pursuant to subdivision (a),
establishes a separate contribution, it shall maintain the
contribution and any contributions required to be made by employees
towards the cost of the benefit or benefits as a separate account,
which shall be available only for payment of the benefit or benefits
and shall not be a part of the accumulated contributions under this
system of any of the employers or members included.
(2) All contributions in that account, irrespective of the agency
from which they were received, shall be available for payment of the
benefit or benefits with respect to the employees of any agency
included. In the event of termination of any agency's participation
in this system, the liability with respect to all those benefits to
which the agency's employees have become entitled, after
establishment of the rate and prior to the termination, shall be its
contributions, as established under subdivision (a), that have become
due and payable as of the date of termination.