Article 1. Voluntary Service Retirement of California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 12. >> Article 1.

(a) A member shall be retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has attained 50 years of age and is credited with five years of state service, except as provided in Sections 7522.20, 21061, 21062, and 21074.
  (b) For purposes of this section, "state service" includes service to the state for which the member, pursuant to Section 20281.5, did not receive credit.
  (c) For a member who has accrued service credit subject to the benefit formula in Section 7522.20 and who has also accrued service credit, within this retirement system, subject to a benefit formula with a minimum retirement age earlier than 52 years of age, the member shall receive an actuarially reduced equivalent benefit, upon retirement, for service subject to Section 7522.20, if the member retires before 52 years of age but at, or after, the minimum age of retirement permitted for other service within this retirement system and the member is credited with at least five years of service.

(a) A local safety member, other than one subject to Section 21362 or 21362.2, shall be retired for service upon the member's written application to the board if the member has attained the age of 55 years, and is credited with five years of state service.
  (b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to the employees of any contracting agency having a contract with the board made prior to September 5, 1945, which contract specifies an age greater than the age of 55 years as the minimum age for voluntary retirement for service for local safety members, until the agency elects to make subdivision (a) applicable to its employees, by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for the approval of contracts, except that an election among the employees is not required. Until the contracting agency elects to make subdivision (a) applicable to its employees, a local safety member employed by the contracting agency shall be retired for service upon the member's written application to the board if the member has attained the minimum age for voluntary retirement specified in the contract between his or her employer and the board, and is credited with five years of state service.

Notwithstanding Section 21061, a local safety member to whom Section 21061 applies shall be retired for service upon his or her written application to the board if he or she has attained age 50 and is credited with five years of state service. However, if the member retires before attaining age 55, his or her prior and current service pensions shall be reduced to that amount that the value of the pensions as deferred to that minimum age will purchase at the actual age of retirement on the basis of the mortality tables and actuarial interest rate in effect with respect to those members.

A member may request a meeting, to be conducted by the member's employer, at which the employer shall explain to the member the elements of the member's past or current compensation that have been or will be reported to the board as compensation earnable. The information provided to the member at the meeting shall be provided orally and in writing and a copy of the writing shall be provided to the member for his or her records.