Section 31680.7 Of Article 8. Retirement For Service From California Government Code >> Division 4. >> Title 3. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 8.
31680.7
. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person
who has been retired for service may be reemployed by the county or
district from which he or she has been retired. Upon reemployment,
the member's retirement allowance shall be discontinued. The
retirement allowance may be reinstated upon the discontinuance of
reemployment, as specified in this section.
(b) (1) For purposes of this section, "original period of
employment" means the period of service with the county or district
upon which the member's original retirement allowance was based.
(2) For purposes of this section, "period of reemployment" means
the service subsequently rendered by the member after he or she has
been reemployed by the county or district.
(c) During the period of reemployment, the member shall accrue
retirement service credit at the same tier or benefit level which was
applicable to the member during his or her original period of
employment. The member's contribution rate shall be based on the same
age at entry, and the same statutory formula, which was used in
calculating the member's contribution rate during his or her original
period of employment.
(d) Upon termination of the member's period of reemployment for
other than death or disability, the member shall begin receiving a
monthly service retirement allowance which is the sum of all of the
following:
(1) The monthly retirement allowance the member had been receiving
immediately prior to the time the member was reemployed by the
county or district.
(2) Any cost-of-living increases that would have been added to the
monthly retirement allowance if the member's allowance had not been
discontinued by reason of reemployment.
(A) A retirement allowance based on the amount of service credit
the member accrued during the period of reemployment. This additional
retirement allowance shall be calculated using the same benefit
formula and tier upon which the member's original retirement
allowance was calculated, but shall be based on the member's age upon
termination of the period of reemployment and the member's final
compensation during that period.
(B) The retirement allowance otherwise payable under this section
to a member whose allowance prior to reinstatement was paid pursuant
to an election under Section 31810 shall be reduced as provided in
that section. However, for a member reinstated pursuant to Section
31680.4 prior to attaining age 62, the reduction required by Section
31810 shall be the amount that is the actuarial value of the increase
in the allowance from the date of retirement to the date of
reinstatement.
(e) If, after reemployment pursuant to this section, the member
becomes disabled and is granted a service-connected or
non-service-connected disability retirement by the board, the member'
s disability retirement allowance shall be the greater of either of
the following:
(1) The disability retirement allowance the member would have been
entitled to receive if all of the member's service during his or her
original period of employment and subsequent period of reemployment
had been continuous.
(2) The service retirement allowance the member would have been
entitled to receive if the member had not become disabled and had
voluntarily terminated his or her period of reemployment.
(f) (1) If the member dies during his or her period of
reemployment, and leaves an eligible survivor or survivors entitled
to receive a survivor's allowance, the allowance shall be the same
amount that it would have been if all of the member's service during
his or her original period of employment and subsequent period of
reemployment had been continuous. If a lump sum death benefit is
payable to the member's designated beneficiary instead of a survivor'
s allowance, the member's accumulated retirement contributions for
purposes of computing the death benefit shall be the sum of the
contributions made by the member during the period of reemployment,
plus interest credited thereon, and the excess, if any, of the member'
s total contributions during the original period of employment,
including interest credited thereon, over the total amount of
retirement benefits paid to the member between the member's original
retirement from the county or district and the member's reemployment
pursuant to this section.
(2) Upon or after service retirement, the continuance shall be
paid upon the member's death to the respective elected beneficiaries
from each of the separate retirement period elections.
(g) This section shall not apply to an employee who receives an
additional retirement benefit as an inducement to retire early.
(h) This section shall not be operative in any county until the
board of supervisors of that county, by resolution adopted by a
majority vote, makes this section applicable in that county.