(a) In addition to other records and accounts, the board shall keep records and accounts necessary to compute at any time:

(1) The total accumulated contributions of members.

Terms Used In California Government Code 20225

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18

(2) The total accumulated contributions of retired members and of deceased members, to or on account of whom payments involving life contingencies are paid, less the annuity payments made to the members.

(3) The accumulated contributions of the state, school employers, and of contracting agencies held for the benefit of members on account of current service.

(4) All other accumulated contributions of the state, school employers, and of contracting agencies, which shall include the amounts available to meet the obligation of the state, school employers, and of the contracting agencies, respectively, on account of benefits that have been granted to, or on account of, retired and deceased employees and on account of prior service of members.

(b) For the purposes of this section, all employers subject to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 20790) shall be deemed to be a single account with respect to their local miscellaneous members, all other employers not subject to Chapter 9 shall be deemed to be a single account with respect to their local miscellaneous members, all employers of local safety members shall be deemed to be a single account with respect to those local safety members, and all employers of school members shall be deemed to be a single account with respect to those school members.

However, the purposes of this section shall be construed in conformity with the individual employer contribution rates established pursuant to Section 20815.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)