California Legal Codes and Statutes

§ 31739.33

Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 179, Sec. 104. Effective January 1, 2009.
(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), a retirement allowance, optional death allowance, or annual death allowance, including an allowance payable to a survivor of a member, payable to or on account of any member of this system or of a superseded system who has been or was retired for disability which did not on July 1, 1976, exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per month is hereby increased as follows:
(b)No allowance shall be increased to more than five hundred dollars ($500) per month pursuant to subdivision (a).

This section shall not be operative in a county until such time as the board of supervisors shall, by resolution adopted by majority vote, make the provisions of this section applicable in that county.

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Cal. Gov. Code § 31739.33 (2026)
https://ca.codecond.com/codes/gov/title-3-government-of-counties/division-4-employees/part-3-retirement-systems/chapter-3-county-employees-retirement-law-of-1937/article-10-disability-retirement/section-31739.33

Other sections in Article 10 - Disability Retirement

§ 31720§ 31720.1§ 31720.3§ 31720.4§ 31720.5§ 31720.6§ 31720.7§ 31720.9§ 31720.91§ 31720.92…§ 31739.4§ 31739.5§ 31740§ 31751§ 31752§ 31755§ 31755.1§ 31755.2§ 31755.3§ 31755.4

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