Section 99159 Of Chapter 3. Miscellaneous From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 10. >> Part 11. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) Any retirement system established or maintained pursuant
to this division for employees of a transit district who are members
of a unit appropriate for collective bargaining shall be maintained
pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement and this section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the
retirement system and the funds of the system shall be managed and
administered by a retirement board composed of equal representation
of labor and management. Any deadlock among the members of the board
with respect to that management and administration shall be resolved
in the manner specified in Section 302 of the federal Labor
Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 186(c)(5)).
(c) The duties and responsibilities of the retirement board shall
be executed in accordance with Section 17 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution.
(d) This section does not apply to any public transit district
that has, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, provided
membership for the district's represented employees in the Public
Employees' Retirement System, a retirement system established
pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, or a pension
trust subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(29 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 et seq.) or any transit district where the
membership of the governing board of the transit district is directly
elected by the voters.