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. Subject to Section 20588, whenever, as a result of the
assumption by a county, fire authority, or district of firefighting
or law enforcement functions performed by a public agency or the
state subject to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, any person
ceases to be employed by a public agency or the state and is employed
by a county, fire authority, or district in which this chapter has
become operative, that person shall become a member of the retirement
system of a county immediately upon entering county service. That
member of the county retirement system shall be entitled to service
credit in the county retirement system for the service for which he
or she was entitled to credit in the Public Employees' Retirement
System at the time of cessation of employment by the public agency or
the state, without necessity of payment of any additional
contributions in respect to that service, when and if all of the
following occur:
(a) The board of retirement receives certification from the Board
of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System of the
service with which the person was entitled to be credited by the
Public Employees' Retirement System at the time of cessation of his
or her public agency or state employment.
(b) There is paid into the county retirement fund of the county,
an amount equal to the normal contributions of the person to the
Public Employees' Retirement System, together with all interest
credited thereto, which amount shall be credited to the individual
account of the member in the county retirement system, and shall
thereafter for all purposes be deemed to be the member's contribution
to the county retirement system with respect to the service so
certified.
(c) There is paid to the retirement system of the county an amount
equal to all contributions of the public agency or the state made to
the Public Employees' Retirement System on account of service
rendered by the person together with interest credited to the public
agency or the state thereto.
(d) The board of retirement elects to apply this section as a
prudent means of mitigating against potential adverse financial
impact upon the county retirement system from the cost of disability
retirements that may be applied for in the future by persons injured
while being employed by the county, fire authority, or district after
ceasing to be employed by a public agency or the state as a result
of the assumption by a county, fire authority, or district of
firefighting or law enforcement functions.
This section shall apply in a county of the first, the second, the
seventh, or the fourteenth class, as defined by Section 28020, as
amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, and Section 28022,
as amended by Chapter 43 of the Statutes of 1961, and Sections 28023,
28028, and 28035, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of
1971.