Upon retirement of a local safety member or a local miscellaneous member for industrial disability, if the member is totally disabled he or she shall receive in lieu of the allowance otherwise provided by this article a disability retirement allowance equal to 75 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated additional contributions, if any.

For purposes of this section, “totally disabled” means inability to perform substantial gainful employment and the presumptions contained in § 4662 of the Labor Code shall also be applied to the determination of total disability.

Terms Used In California Government Code 21428

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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.
  • compensation: means the remuneration paid out of funds controlled by the employer in payment for the member's services performed during normal working hours or for time during which the member is excused from work because of any of the following:

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  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of any contracting agency unless and until the agency elects to be subject to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts, or in the case of contracts made after January 1, 1974, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to the provisions of this section.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)