The benefit provisions of the workmen's compensation laws included in the Labor Code of the State of California, as they effect the benefits provided for or payable to or on account of officers and employees, including teachers of the City and County, shall be administered exclusively by the retirement board, provided that the retirement board shall determine whether the City and County, through the Retirement System, shall assume the risks under the said law, in whole or in part, or whether it shall reinsure such risks, in whole or in part, with the state compensation insurance fund. Benefits under such risks as may be assumed by the City and County, and premiums under such risks as may be reinsured shall be paid by the Retirement System, and an amount equal to the total of such benefits and premiums, as determined by the actuary for any fiscal year, including the deficit brought forward from previous years, shall be paid during such fiscal year to the Retirement System by the City and County.
Every patrol special police officer, as referred to in Section 8.509 of this Charter shall be entitled, under this section, to the benefits of such compensation law, if injured while performing regular City and County police duties, which shall include only duties performed while preventing the commission of a crime, or while apprehending the person or persons committing such crime, and shall not include duties of any character performed for private employers either on or off the premises of such employers, provided that no payments shall be made under this paragraph in the event that the patrol special officer shall receive the benefits of such compensation law from any other source.
Whenever any member of the fire or police department, as defined in Sections 8.545, 8.565, and 8.569, respectively, is incapacitated for the performance of his duties by reason of any bodily injury received in or illness caused by the performance of his duty as determined by the retirement board, he shall become entitled, regardless of his period of service with the City and County, to disability benefits equal to and in lieu of his salary as fixed by the Charter, while so disabled, for a period or periods not exceeding 12 months in the aggregate, with respect to any one injury or illness. Said disability benefits shall be reduced in the manner fixed by the Board of Supervisors by the amount of any benefits other than medical benefits payable to such person under the Labor Code concurrently with said disability benefit, and because of the injury or illness resulting in said disability. Such disability benefits as are paid in the absence of payments of any benefits other than medical benefits under the workmen's compensation laws included in said Labor Code, shall be considered as in lieu of such benefits, payable to such person under the said code concurrently with said disability benefits, and shall be in satisfaction and discharge of the obligations of the City and County to pay such benefits under the Labor Code. Medical treatment which may become necessary to relieve or cure said member from the effects of the injury or illness shall be furnished by the City and County, in the same manner that such treatment is furnished under said Labor Code, but without first requiring continuing awards of such treatment by the Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California, relating to impairments of permanent or of extended and uncertain duration. The provisions of this paragraph shall be administered exclusively by the retirement board, and the City and County and unified school district and community college district shall pay to the Retirement System during each fiscal year, an amount equal to the total disability benefits paid by said system during the fiscal year and, pursuant to applicable provisions of the Administrative Code of the City and County, the unified school district and community college district shall pay to the Retirement System during each fiscal year, a proportionate share of the costs of administering workers compensation benefits on behalf of employees of said school and college districts.
A member of the fire or police department shall receive credits as service, under the Retirement System, for time during which he is incapacitated for performance of duty and receives said disability benefit. Contributions for the Retirement System shall be deducted from said benefits in the same manner as they would be deducted from salary paid to him, and the City and County shall contribute, in addition to its other contributions provided herein, to the Retirement System on the basis of said benefits in the same manner as it would contribute on salary paid to said member.