Section 21020 Of Article 5. Credit For Public Service From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 11. >> Article 5.
21020
. "Public service" for purposes of this article means the
following:
(a) The period of time an employee served the state, a school
employer, or a contracting agency prior to becoming a member, when
the service was rendered in a position in which the employee was
excluded provided one of the following conditions is met:
(1) The position has since become subject to compulsory membership
in this system.
(2) The employee was excluded because the employee was serving on
a part-time basis.
(3) The employee was excluded because the employee failed to
exercise the right to elect membership under this part.
(b) Employment in the State Emergency Relief Administration or the
State Relief Administration, regardless of the source of the
compensation paid for that employment.
(c) Employment as an academic employee of the University of
California prior to October 1, 1963.
(d) Employment by the state in which the person was not eligible
for membership in this system if the ineligibility was solely because
his or her compensation was paid from other than state-controlled
funds. However, time spent in work as a work relief recipient under
programs such as, but not limited to, the Works Progress
Administration, the Civil Works Administration, the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration, the National Youth Administration, and the
Civilian Conservation Corps, shall not constitute public service.
(e) Employment in a function formerly performed by a public agency
other than a contracting agency and assumed by a contracting agency
where the employees who performed those functions are or were
transferred to or employed by the contracting agency without change
in occupation or position.
(f) Civilian service as an employee or officer of an agency of the
government of the United States that performed functions the same as
or substantially similar to those performed by this state prior to
January 1, 1942, and that were transferred from the state to that
agency, including military service in any branch of the Armed Forces
of the United States performed by an individual on military leave of
absence from that federal employment, if all the following conditions
exist:
(1) Prior to performing that federal service he or she was
employed by the state.
(2) He or she was laid off from state service or would have been
laid off if he or she had not been absent in military service because
of the transfer of the functions of the state to an agency of the
United States government.
(3) Subsequent to his or her layoff from state service he or she
was employed by the United States government in an agency performing
functions the same as or substantially similar to those of the state
agency from which he or she was laid off.
(4) After his or her separation from federal service, he or she
was employed by a state agency.
(5) In lieu of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), the United States
government pays to the state or an agency of the state, funds equal
to contributions that would have been made by the state had the
member been in state service for the period of his or her public
service with respect to members who were not employed by the state
prior to entering that federal employment or whose state service
prior to entering that federal employment was terminated for reasons
other than the transfer of the function.
(g) Employment in a district, prior to the time the district
became a subsidiary district of a city, of a person who was employed
by the city following the reorganization to render service to the
district and who became a member in that employment.