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The board of supervisors may levy a special tax to be used for the payment of pensions and annuities to employees of a county and judicial district under such pension, retirement, and benefit systems or associations as are established by law for employees of a county and judicial district.

If a member of a retirement system established by the county for officers or employees of a county or judicial district, or for any portion of them, separates from the service of the county before retirement and the separation is for any cause other than permanent disability, there shall be paid to him, or in case of his death to his legal representative, all the money paid in by him as his contribution toward retirement under the system and accumulated interest thereon.

Any firefighter who has become an employee of the first public agency because of the assumption by that public agency of the firefighting function of the second public agency who, at any time after becoming an employee of the first public agency, pays into the retirement fund of that first public agency the same amount which he or she would have contributed had he or she been employed by the first public agency at the same salary, and for the same time or periods of time for which and during which he or she was employed by the second public agency whose firefighting function is assumed by the first public agency shall have all of the retirement rights which he or she would have had, if any, had he or she been an employee of the first public agency at that salary and for the time or periods of time, unless the first public agency has provided by ordinance pursuant to Section 45310.5 for a modification of his or her rights and benefits because of membership in a reciprocal retirement system.

If a member of a county retirement system becomes a member of another county retirement system, his membership in the first system ceases.

As used in this chapter "public agency" means the State or any department or agency thereof, a county, city and county, city, public corporation, municipal corporation or public district.

Whenever any public agency having a retirement system takes over and assumes any of the functions of any other public agency, and because of such assumption all or any employees of the second public agency become employees of the first public agency, such agencies, by contract, may agree that the second agency will pay either to the first agency or to the retirement fund of the first agency an amount of money to be agreed upon because of the retirement rights to be granted to such employees.

Insofar as can be authorized by statute, the payments by the second public agency may be either from the general fund of such public agency or from the retirement fund of such public agency.

Whenever any public agency having a retirement system takes over and assumes any or all of the functions of any other public agency and because of such assumption all or any of the employees of the second public agency become employees of the first public agency, and no contract is entered into pursuant to Section 31205, the governing body of the first public agency, by resolution, may determine that such employees shall have credit for time employed by the second public agency as provided in this chapter.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 31202, whenever a contract has been entered into, or a resolution passed, as provided in this chapter, any employee who has become an employee of the first public agency because of the assumption by such public agency of any or all of the functions of the second public agency who within one year after becoming an employee of the first public agency pays into the retirement fund of such first public agency the same amount which he would have contributed had he been employed by the first public agency at the same salary, and for the same time or periods of time for which and during which he was employed by the officer or department of the second public agency whose functions are assumed by the first public agency shall have all of the retirement rights which he would have had, if any, had he been an employee of the first public agency at such salary and for such time or periods of time.