Section 1167 Of Chapter 3. Pension Plan From California Harbors And Navigation Code >> Division 5. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) The board shall review the benefits received by retired
or disabled pilots and inland pilots and their surviving spouses
every three years or when the cumulative percentage increase in the
Consumer Price Index (San Francisco Bay Area) has exceeded 12
percent, whichever occurs first.
(b) The board may increase the monthly pensions specified in
Section 1163. Those increases shall take into consideration the
maritime industry practice in the United States as brought to the
attention of the board by the pilots, inland pilots, or the industry.
The increase shall not exceed 50 percent of the cumulative increase
in the Consumer Price Index (San Francisco Bay Area). Monthly
pensions for retired pilots, inland pilots, or their surviving
spouses who have been retired less than the full three-year interval
between adjustments shall increase on a pro rata basis according to
the number of months that those persons have been retired prior to
that adjustment.