Article 2. Prior Service Credit of California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 11. >> Article 2.

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each member who was employed by the university at the time of becoming a member .

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each member who was employed by the state, but not by the university, at the time of becoming a member . Credit for prior service shall be granted to each state member who, on or before the effective date of his or her retirement under this system becomes entitled to be credited with five years or more of current service rendered as a state member. The status under this system of each state member who qualifies for credit for prior service under this section shall be adjusted to what it would have been if the prior service had been credited to the member at the date he or she became a member of this system.

Credit for prior service shall also be granted to each state member who became a member while employed on a part-time basis, as a result of amendments of the laws governing this system, or who became a member prior to those amendments, because of a change in status to a full-time basis.

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each person who was employed by a contracting agency at the time of becoming a member and who became a member on the effective date of the agency's contract or within three years after last rendering prior service.

Credit for prior service rendered as an employee of a contracting agency shall be granted to each local member at the date the local member becomes a member of this system. This section shall apply to all local members who are in active state service on or after January 1, 1977, and notwithstanding any other provision in this article shall operate prospectively.

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each local member who rendered service to a public agency if that agency or a function of that agency is assumed by a contracting agency or a public agency that thereafter becomes a contracting agency. The future annual costs incurred pursuant to this section shall be determined in the manner prescribed for actuarial investigations and valuations in Article 1 (commencing with Section 20460) of Chapter 5 and shall be made public at a public meeting at least two weeks prior to the election by a public agency to be subject to this section. This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of any contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.

The credit for prior service to be granted local members and the benefits pertaining thereto, shall be established by contract between the board and the governing body of the agency. Benefits on account of each year of credited prior service shall be in the form of a percentage of either of the following:
  (a) The final compensation of local safety members.
  (b) The final compensation of a local miscellaneous member who retires after December 1, 1969, whether or not the contracting agency has elected to be subject to the provisions of this subdivision. The percentages shall not exceed the analogous percentages applicable to the members' current service, and shall be uniform for all local safety members, according to age at entry into the service of the contracting agency, if the member is entitled to credit for prior service, or age at entry into this system, if the member is not so entitled, and uniform for all local miscellaneous members regardless of age at entry.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, credit for prior service shall be granted only to each person who was employed by a contracting agency on the effective date of the agency's contract or amendment to the contract under which that prior service is granted. This section shall not apply to a contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency, unless the agency elects to be subject to this section by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.