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Members of the police department, as defined in Section 8.545, who are members of the Retirement System under Sections 8.507, 8.540 or 8.543 of the Charter on the first day of July, 1945, and persons who become members of said department after said date, shall be members of the Retirement System under this Section 8.544 on and after said date, and shall be subject to the following provisions of Section 8.544 and Sections 8.545, 8.546, 8.547, 8.548, 8.549, 8.551, 8.552, 8.553, 8.554, 8.555, 8.556, 8.557, 8.558, and 8.559 (which shall apply only to members under Section 8.544 unless otherwise indicated) in addition to the provisions contained in Sections 3.670, 3.671, 8.500, 8.510, and 8.520 of this Charter notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of the Charter. Members of the said department who are members of the Retirement System under Section 8.540 of the Charter on July 1, 1949, however, shall have the option to be exercised in writing on a form furnished by the Retirement System and to be filed at the office of said system not later than 90 days after July 1, 1949, of being members of the system under Section 8.540 instead of Section 8.544, the election under said option to be effective on said date. In like manner, members of the said department who are members of the Retirement System under Section 8.507 or 8.543 of the Charter shall have the option, to be exercised in writing on a form furnished by the Retirement System, and to be filed at the office of said system not later than 90 days after July 1, 1949, of being members of the system under Sections 8.507 or 8.543, respectively, instead of Section 8.544 the election to be effective on said date, provided, that members who are absent by reason of service in the armed forces of the United States or by reason of any other service included in section 8.520 of the Charter, on the effective date of the amendment shall have the same option of electing to be members under Sections 8.507, 8.540, or 8.543, as the case may be, instead of Section 8.544, until 90 days after return to service in the police department.
On and after July 1, 1949, the persons who affirmatively exercise said option, shall continue to be members of the system under Sections 8.507, 8.540, or 8.543, respectively, and shall not be subject to any of the provisions of Section 8.544.
The following words and phrases as used in this section, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context shall have the following meanings:
"Retirement allowance," "death allowance," or "allowance" shall mean equal monthly payments, beginning to accrue upon the date of retirement, or upon the day following the date of death, as the case may be and continuing for life unless a different term of payment is definitely provided by the context.
"Compensation," as distinguished from benefits under the Workers' Compensation Insurance and Safety Act of the State of California, shall mean the remuneration payable in cash, by the City and County, without deduction except for absence from duty, for time during which the individual receiving such remuneration is a member of the police department, but excluding remuneration paid for overtime.
"Compensation earnable" shall mean the compensation which would have been earned had the member received compensation without interruption throughout the period under consideration at the rates of remuneration attached at that time to the ranks or positions held by him during such period, it being assumed that during any absence he was in the rank or position held by him at the beginning of the absence, and that prior to becoming a member of the police department, he was in the rank or position first held by him in such department.
"Benefit" shall include "allowance," "retirement allowance," "death allowance" and "death benefit."
"Final compensation" shall mean the monthly compensation earnable by a member at the time of his retirement, or death before retirement, as the case may be, at the rate of remuneration attached at that time to the rank or position which said member held, provided that said member has held said rank or position for at least one year immediately prior to said retirement or death; and provided, further, that if said member has not held said rank or position for at least one year immediately prior to said retirement or death, "final compensation," as to such member, shall mean the monthly compensation earnable by such member in the rank or position next lower to the rank or position which he held at the time of retirement or death at the rate of remuneration attached at the time of said retirement or death to said next lower rank or position; provided, however, that in the case of a member's death before retirement as the result of a violent traumatic injury received in the performance of his duty, "final compensation," as to such member shall mean the monthly compensation earnable by such member at the rate of remuneration attached on the date he receives such injury to the rank or position held by such member on that date.
The amendment of the definition of "final compensation" contained in the proposition therefor submitted to the electorate on June 6, 1972, shall be retroactive and shall be applicable to any death allowance first effective on or after July 1, 1971. Said amendment does not and shall not increase any death allowance first in effect prior to July 1, 1971, nor shall said amendment give any person receiving a death allowance, or his successors in interest any claim against the City and County for any increase in any death allowance paid or payable for time prior to July 1, 1971.
For the purpose of the Retirement System and of this section, the terms "member of the police department," "member of the department" or "member" shall mean any officer or employee of the police department whose employment therein began prior to January 1, 1900, or whose employment therein began or shall begin after that date, and was or shall be subject to the Charter provisions governing entrance requirements for members of the uniformed force of said department, and said terms further shall mean, from the effective date of their employment in said department, persons employed on July 1, 1945, regardless of age, or employed after said date at an age not greater than the maximum age then prescribed for entrance into employment in said uniformed force, to perform the duties now performed under the titles of criminologist, photographer, police patrol driver, police motor boat operator, woman protective officer, police woman or jail matron. Any police service performed by such member of the police department outside the limits of the City and County and under orders of a superior officer of any such member, shall be considered as City and County service, and any disability or death incurred therein shall be covered under the provisions of the Retirement System.
"Retirement system" or "system" shall mean San Francisco City and County Employees' Retirement System as created in Section 8.600 of the Charter.
"Retirement board" shall mean "retirement board" as created in Section 3.670 of the Charter.
"Charter" shall mean the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco.
Words used in the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders, and singular numbers shall include the plural and the plural the singular.
"Interest" shall mean interest at the rate adopted by the retirement board.
Any member of the police department who completes at least 25 years of service in the aggregate and attains the age of 50 years, said service to be computed under Section 8.554, may retire for service at his option. Members shall be retired on the first day of the month next following the attainment by them of the age of 65 years. A member retired after meeting the service and age requirements in the two sentences next preceding, shall receive a retirement allowance equal to 55 percent of the final compensation of said member, as defined in Section 8.545, plus and allowance at the rate of three percent of said final compensation, for each year of service rendered in excess of 25 years; provided, however, that such retirement allowance shall not exceed 70 percent of said member's final compensation. A member retired after attaining the age of 65 years, but before completing 25 years of service in the aggregate computed under Section 8.554, shall receive a retirement allowance which bears the same ratio to 50 percent of the final compensation of said member, as defined in Section 8.545 as the service with which he is entitled to be credited, bears to 25 years. If, at the date of retirement for service, or retirement for disability resulting from an injury received in performance of duty, said member has no wife, children or dependent parents, who would qualify for the continuance of the allowance after the death of said member, or with respect to the portion of the allowance which would not to be continued regardless of dependents, or upon retirement for disability resulting from other causes, with respect to all of the allowance and regardless of dependents at retirement, a member retired under this section, or Section 8.547, may elect before the first payment of the retirement allowance is made, to receive the actuarial equivalent of his allowance or the portion which would not be continued regardless of dependents, as the case may be, partly in a lesser allowance to be received by him throughout his life, and partly in other benefits payable after his death to another person or persons, provided that such election shall be subject to all the conditions prescribed by the Board of Supervisors to govern similar election by other members of the Retirement System, including the character and amount of such other benefits.
Any member of the police department who becomes incapacitated for the performance of his duty by reason of bodily injury received in, or illness caused by performance of his duty, shall be retired. If he is not qualified for service retirement, he shall receive a retirement allowance in an amount which shall be equal to the same percentage of the final compensation of said member, as defined in Section 8.545, as his percentage of disability is determined to be. The percentage of disability shall be as determined by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board of the State of California upon referral from the retirement board for that purpose; provided that the retirement board may, by five affirmative votes, adjust the percentage of disability as determined by said appeals board; and provided, further, that such retirement allowance shall be in an amount not less than 50 percent nor more than 90 percent of the final compensation of said member, as defined in Section 8.545. Said allowance shall be paid to him until the date upon which said member would have qualified for service retirement had he lived and rendered service without interruption in the rank held by him at retirement, and after said date the allowance payable shall be equal to the retirement allowance said member would have received if retired for service on said date, based on the final compensation as defined in Section 8.545 he would have received immediately prior to said date had he lived and rendered service as assumed, but such allowance shall not be less than 50 percent of such final compensation. If at the time of retirement because of disability, he is qualified as to age and service for retirement under Section 8.546, he shall receive an allowance equal to the retirement allowance which he would receive if retired under Section 8.546 but not less than 55 percent of said final compensation. Any member of the police department who becomes incapacitated for the performance of his duty, by reason of a cause not included under the provisions of the immediately preceding sentences, and who shall have completed at least 10 years of service in the aggregate, computed as provided in Section 8.554 shall be retired upon an allowance of one and one-half percent of the final compensation of said member, as defined in Section 8.545, for each year of service provided that said allowance shall not be less than 331/3 percent of said final compensation; provided, however, that if such member has completed at least 25 years of service in the aggregate, computed as provided in Section 8.554, but has not yet attained the age of 50 years, he shall receive an allowance equal to the retirement allowance he would have received if he had attained the age of 50 years and retired under Section 8.546 as of the date of retirement for such incapacity. The question of retiring a member under this section may be brought before the retirement board on said board's own motion, by recommendation of the police commission, or by said member of his guardian. If his disability shall cease, his retirement allowance shall cease, and he shall be restored to the service in the rank he occupied at the time of his retirement.
If a member of the police department shall die before or after retirement by reason of an injury received in, or illness caused by the performance of his duty, a death allowance, in lieu of any allowance payable under any other section of the Charter or by ordinance, on account of death resulting from injury received in or illness caused by the performance of duty, shall be paid, beginning on the date next following the date of death, to his surviving wife, throughout her life or until her remarriage. If the member, at the time of death, was qualified for service retirement, but had not retired, the allowance payable shall be equal to the retirement allowance which the member would have received if he had been retired for service on day of death, but such allowance shall not be less than 55 percent of the final compensation earnable by said member immediately preceding death. If death occurs prior to qualification for service retirement the allowance payable shall be equal to the final compensation of said member at the date of death, until the date upon which said member would have qualified for service retirement, had he lived and rendered service without interruption in the rank held by him at death, and after said date the allowance payable shall be equal to the retirement allowance said member would have received if retired for service on said date, based on the final compensation he would have received immediately prior to said date, had he lived and rendered service as assumed, but such allowance shall not be less than 55 percent of such final compensation. If he had retired prior to death for service or for disability resulting from injury received in, or illness caused by the performance of duty, the allowance payable shall be equal to the retirement allowance of the member, except that if he was a member under Section 8.544 and retirement was for such disability, and if death occurred prior to qualification for the service retirement allowance, the allowance continued shall be reduced upon the date at which said member would have qualified for service retirement, in the same manner as it would have been reduced had the member not died. If there be no surviving wife entitled to an allowance hereunder, or if she die or remarry before every child of such deceased member attains the age of 18 years, then the allowance which the surviving wife would have received had she lived and not remarried shall be paid to his child or children under said age, collectively, to continue until every such child dies or attains said age, provided that no child shall receive any allowance after marrying or attaining the age of 18 years. Should said member leave no surviving wife and no children under the age of 18 years, but leave a parent or parents depending upon him for support, the parents so dependent shall collectively receive a monthly allowance equal to that which a surviving widow otherwise would have received, during such dependency. No allowance, however, shall be paid under this section to a surviving wife following the death of a member unless she was married to the member prior to the date of the injury or onset of the illness which results in death.
Upon the death of a member of the police department resulting from any cause, other than injury received in or illness caused by performance of duty:
(a) if his death occurred after qualification for service retirement under Sections 8.540, 8.543 or 8.546, or after retirement for service or because of disability which resulted from any cause other than any injury received in, or illness caused by the performance of duty, three-fourths of his retirement allowance to which he would have been entitled if he had retired for service at the time of his death or three-fourths of his retirement allowance as it was at his death, as the case may be, shall be continued throughout life or until remarriage, to his surviving wife; or
(b) if his death occurred after the completion of at least 25 years of service in the aggregate but prior to the attainment of age 50 years, three-fourths of the retirement allowance to which he would have been entitled under section 8.546 if he had attained the age of 50 years on the date of his death shall be continued throughout life or until remarriage to his surviving wife; or
(c) if his death occurred after retirement because of disability which resulted from injury received in, or illness caused by the performance of duty, his retirement allowance as it was at his death shall be continued throughout life or until remarriage, to his surviving wife, except that, if death occurred prior to qualification for service retirement allowance, the allowance continued shall be adjusted upon the date at which said member would have qualified for service retirement, in the same manner as it would have been adjusted had the member not died; or
(d) if his death occurred after completion of at least 10 years of service in the aggregate, computed as provided in Section 8.554, an allowance in an amount equal to the retirement allowance to which the member would have been entitled pursuant to Section 8.547 if he had retired on the date of death because of incapacity for performance of duty resulting from a cause other than bodily injury received in or illness caused by performance of duty shall be paid throughout life or until remarriage to his surviving wife. If there be no surviving wife entitled to an allowance hereunder, or if she die or remarry before every child of such deceased member attains the age of 18 years, then the allowance which the surviving wife would have received had she lived and not remarried shall be paid to his child or children under said age, collectively, to continue until every such child dies or attains said age, provided that no child shall receive any allowance after marrying or attaining the age of 18 years. Should said member leave no surviving wife and no children under the age of eighteen years, but leave a child or children, regardless of age, dependent upon him for support because partially or totally disabled and unable to earn a livelihood or a parent or parent dependent upon him for support, the child or children and the parents so dependent shall collectively receive a monthly allowance equal to that which a surviving wife otherwise would have received, during such dependency. No allowance, however, shall be paid under this section to a surviving wife unless she was married to the member prior to the date of the injury or the onset of the illness which results in death, if he had not retired, or unless she was married to the member at least one year prior his death.
As used in this section and Section 8.548, "surviving wife" shall mean and include a surviving spouse, and shall also mean and include a spouse who has remarried since the death of the member but whose remarriage has been terminated by death, divorce or annulment within five years after the date of such remarriage and who has not thereafter again remarried.
The surviving wife, in the event of death of the member after qualification for but before service retirement, may elect before the first payment of the allowance, to receive the benefit provided in Section 8.552 in lieu of the allowance which otherwise would be continued to her under this section. If there be no surviving wife, the guardian of the eligible child or children may make such election, and if there be no such children, the dependent parent or parents may make such election. Persons heretofore or hereafter retired under other Charter sections as members of the police department at the time of retirement, shall be subject to the provisions of this section. With respect to members under Section 8.544, "qualified for service retirement," "qualification for service retirement," or "qualified as to age and service retirement," as used in this section and other sections to which persons who are members under Section 8.544 are subject, shall mean completion of 25 years of service and attainment of age 50, said service to be computed under Section 8.554.
The amendments of this Section 8.549 contained in the proposition herefor submitted to the electorate on November 7, 1972, are hereby declared to be retroactive and shall be applicable to members who died after October 1, 1970.
(a) Every allowance based on the average monthly compensation earnable by the member during the three or 10 years prior to retirement or death, and payable for time commencing on April 1, 1952, to or on account of persons who were retired or who died prior to January 1, 1951, as members of the police department, shall be adjusted to the amount it would be if it had been based on the monthly compensation fixed in Section 35.5 of the Charter of 1932 as amended as of July 1, 1951, for the rank of police officer in the respective years of service, regardless of the rank or position the member held in the department prior to his retirement, or death before retirement. Every service retirement allowance under Section 8.543 which is included in the sentence next preceding, shall be adjusted to what it would have been, if prior to optional modification, the allowance had been 50 percent of said monthly compensation. Allowances payable under Sections 8.547, 8.548 or 8.561 to or on account of persons who were retired for disability or died prior to January 1, 1951, on and after the date such persons would have qualified for service retirement, shall be calculated as provided in said Sections 8.547, 8.548, or 8.561, respectively. The provisions of Section 8.549 with respect to continuance of one-half of retirement allowance upon deaths after retirement, shall be applied from April 1, 1952, as if they were effective on November 2, 1948. This section does not authorize any decrease in any allowance from the amount being paid as of April 1, 1952, nor does this section give any retired member, or any beneficiary of such member, or his successors in interest, any claim against the City and County for any increase in any allowance paid or payable for the time prior to April 1, 1952. Adjustment in reserves under allowances which are changed according to this section, shall be made on the basis of current interest rate and mortality tables.
The increase in the retirement allowance shall be apportioned according to services rendered by the member in the same manner that the allowance prior to increase was apportioned. Contributions to the Retirement System, necessary for the payment of the increase of the portion of the retirement allowances which is paid from reserves held by the Retirement System, shall be provided from the reserves held by the Retirement System on account of members under Section 8.544, the necessary amount being transferred upon April 1, 1952, from said reserves to the reserves held by the Retirement System to meet the obligations on account of benefits that have been granted and on account of prior service of members. The contribution being required of the City and County currently, as a percentage of salaries of persons who are members under Section 8.544, shall be increased to a percentage determined by the actuary as necessary to replace the reserves so transferred. Contributions to the Retirement System necessary for the payment of said increases with reference to current and prior service portions of the allowances which are not paid from reserves held by the Retirement System, shall be paid to the system by the City and County by annual appropriations, provided that such appropriation for any year shall not be less than the amount disbursed during that year on account of said increases.
(b) Every retirement or death allowance payable for time commencing on April 1, 1956, to or on account of any person who died or was retired prior to November 8, 1955, as a member of the police department, unless such person was retired or died as a member of the Retirement System or the former police relief and pension fund, under any section of the Charter, other than Section 8.543, or 8.544, is hereby increased by the amount of $25 per month; provided, however, that such increased retirement allowance or death allowance shall not exceed 50 percent of the compensation as of July 1, 1954, attached to the rank of police officer in the fourth year of service as set forth under Section 35.5 of the Charter of 1932, as amended regardless of the rank or position the member held in the department prior to his retirement or death before retirement.
Such increase shall not be modified under, nor subject to, Option 2 or 3 provided by ordinance. Allowances payable under Sections 8.547, 8.548, or 8.561, to or on account of persons who were retired for disability or died prior to November 8, 1955, on and after the date such persons would have qualified for service retirement, shall be calculated as provided in said Sections 8.547, 8.548, or 8.561, respectively.
This section does not authorize any decrease in any allowance from the amount being paid as of April 1, 1965, nor does this section give any member who retired, or the beneficiary of any member who died prior to April 1, 1956, or his successors in interest, any claim against the City and County for any increase in retirement allowance paid or payable for time prior to April 1, 1956.
The increase in allowance shall be apportioned between service rendered prior to the entry of the member into the Retirement System under Section 8.543 or 8.544, and service rendered as such a member, in the same proportion that such prior and current service respectively, bears to the total service credited at retirement. Contributions to the Retirement System necessary for the increases in the allowances provided in this section, shall be provided, with respect to the portion of the benefit based on service rendered as members under Section 8.543 or 8.544 from the reserves held by the Retirement System on account of members of the Retirement System under Section 8.544, the necessary amount being transferred upon April 1, 1956, from said reserves to the reserves held by the Retirement System to meet the obligations on account of allowances which are increased by this Subsection 8.550(b). The contribution being required of the City and County currently, as percentages of salaries of persons who are members under Section 8.543 or 8.544, shall be paid to the system by the City and County by annual appropriations, provided that such appropriation for any year shall not be less than the amount disbursed during that year on account of said increases.
That portion of any allowance payable because of the death or retirement of any member of the police department, which is provided by contributions of the City and County, shall be reduced in the manner fixed by the Board of Supervisors, by the amount of any benefits, other than medical benefits, payable to or on account of such person, under the Workers' Compensation Insurance and Safety Law of the State of California and because of the injury or illness resulting in said death or retirement. Such portion which is paid because of death or retirement which resulted from injury received in or illness caused by performance of duty, shall be considered as in lieu of any benefits, other than medical benefits, payable to or on account of such persons under the said law of the State of California, and shall be in satisfaction and discharge of the obligation of the City and County to pay such benefits.
If a member of the police department shall die, before retirement, from causes other than an injury received in, or illness caused by the performance of duty, or regardless of cause, if no allowance shall be payable under Sections 8.548 or 8.549 preceding, a death benefit shall be paid to his estate or designated beneficiary, the amount of which and the conditions for the payment of which shall be determined in the manner prescribed by the Board of Supervisors for the death benefit of other members of the Retirement System. Upon the death of a member after retirement and regardless of the cause of death, a death benefit shall be paid to his estate or designated beneficiary, the amount of which and the conditions for payment of which shall be determined in the manner prescribed by the Board of Supervisors for the payment of a similar benefit upon the death of other retired members.
Should any member of the police department cease to be employed as such a member, through any cause other than death or retirement or transfer to another office or department, all of his contributions, with interest credited thereon, shall be refunded to him subject to the conditions prescribed by the Board of Supervisors to govern similar terminations of employment of other members of the Retirement System. If he shall again become a member of the police department, he shall redeposit in the retirement fund the amount refunded to him. Contributions with interest, which are credited because of service rendered in any other office or department and which will not be counted under Section 8.554 to any person who becomes a member of the Retirement System under Section 8.544, shall be refunded to him forthwith. Should a member of the police department become an employee of any other office or department, his accumulated contribution account shall be adjusted by payments to or from him as the case may be, to make the accumulated contributions credited to him at the time of change, equal to the amount which would have been credited to him if he had been employed in said other office or department at the rate of compensation received by him in the police department, and he shall receive credit for service for which said contributions were made, according to the Charter section under which his membership in the Retirement System continues.
The following time shall be included in the computation of the service to be credited to a member of the police department for the purposes of determining whether such member qualified for retirement, and calculating benefits, excluding, however, any time the contributions for which were withdrawn by said member upon termination of his service while he was a member under any other Charter section, and not redeposited upon re-entry into service:
(a) Time during and for which said member is entitled to receive compensation because of services as a member of the fire or police department.
(b) Time during which said member served and received compensation as a jail matron in the office of the sheriff.
(c) Time during which said member is entitled to receive compensation while a member of the Retirement System, because of service rendered in other offices and departments before July 1, 1949, provided that accumulated contributions on account of such service, previously refunded, are redeposited, with interest from date of refund to date of redeposit, at times and in the manner fixed by the retirement board; and solely for the purpose of determining qualification for retirement under Section 8.547 for disability not resulting from injury received in, or illness caused by performance of duty, time during which said member serves, after June 30, 1949, and receives compensation because of services rendered in other offices and departments.
(d) Time during which said member is absent from a status included in paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) next preceding, by reason of service in the armed forces of the United States of America, or by reason of any other service included in Section 8.520 of the Charter, during any war in which the United States was or shall be engaged or during other national emergency, and for which said member contributed or contributes to the Retirement System or for which the City and County contributed or contributes on his account.
All payments provided for persons who are members under Section 8.544 shall be made from funds derived from the following sources, plus interest earned on said funds:
(a) The normal rate of contribution of each member shall be based on his age taken to the next lower complete quarter year, (1) at the date he became a member under Section 8.507 or 8.543, in the case of persons who are members under these sections, or (2) at July 1, 1945, in the case of persons who are members under Section 8.540, and his age taken to the next lower completed quarter year, when he entered the police department, or (3) on his age at the date he becomes a member under Section 8.544, in the case of persons who become members on or after July 1, 1945, without credit for services counted under Section 8.554. The age of entrance into the police department shall be determined by deducting the member's service credited under Section 8.554 as rendered prior to the date upon which his age is based for determination of the rate of contribution according to the sentence next preceding, from said age. The normal rate of contribution of each such member, to be effective from the effective date of membership under Section 8.544, shall be such as, on the average for such member, will provide, assuming service without interruption, under Section 8.546, one-third of that portion of the service retirement allowance to which he would be entitled, without continuance to dependents, upon first qualifying as to age and service, for retirement under that section, without discount of allowance, which is based on service rendered after the date upon which his age is based for determination of his rate of contribution according to the first sentence in this paragraph, and assuming the contribution to be made from that date. The normal rate of contribution, however, shall not exceed six percent.
(b) The dependent rate of contribution of each member which shall be required of each member throughout his membership in addition to the normal contributions, and in the same manner as normal contributions, shall be such as, on the average for such member, will provide, assuming service without interruption under Section 8.546, and upon his first qualifying as to age and service for retirement under that section, one-third of the portion of his allowance, which is to be continued under Section 8.549, after his death and throughout the life of a surviving wife whose age at said death is three years less than the age of said member. If, at the date of retirement for service or retirement for disability resulting from injury received in performance of duty, said member has no wife who would qualify for the continuance of the allowance to her after the death of said member, or upon retirement from disability resulting from other causes regardless of his marital condition, the dependent contributions with accumulated interest thereon, shall be paid to him forthwith. The dependent rate of contribution, however, shall not exceed the difference between six percent and the member's normal rate of contribution, and said dependent rate may be taken as a flat percentage of the member's normal rate, regardless of the age of qualification for service retirement.
(c) There shall be deducted from each payment of compensation made to a member under Section 8.544, a sum determined by applying the member's rates of contribution to such compensation payment. The sum so deducted shall be paid forthwith to the Retirement System. Said contribution shall be credited to the individual account of the member from whose salary it was deducted, and the total of said contributions, together with interest credited thereon in the same manner as is prescribed by the Board of Supervisors for crediting interest to contributions of other members of the Retirement System, shall be applied to provide part of the retirement allowance granted to, or allowance granted on account of said members or shall be paid to said member or his estate or beneficiary as provided in Sections 8.552, 8.553, and 8.554.
(d) Contributions based on time included in Subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 8.554 and deducted prior to July 1, 1945, from compensation of persons who become members under Section 8.544, and standing with interest thereon, to the credit of such members on the records of the Retirement System on said date, shall continue to be credited to the individual accounts of said members and shall be combined with and administered in the same manner as the contributions deducted after said date.
(e) The total contributions, with interest thereon, made by or charged against the City and County and standing to its credit, in the accounts of the Retirement System, on account of persons who become members under Section 8.544, shall be applied to provide the benefits under said section.
(f) The City and County shall contribute to the Retirement System such amounts as may be necessary, when added to the contributions referred to in the preceding paragraphs of this Section 8.555, to provide the benefits payable under this section. Such contributions of the City and County to provide the portion of the benefits hereunder which shall be based on service rendered by each member prior to the date upon which his age is based for determination of his rate of contribution in paragraph (a), Section 8.555 shall not be less during any fiscal year than the amount of such benefits paid during said year. Such contributions of the City and County to provide the portion of the benefits hereunder which shall be based on service rendered by respective members on and after the date stated in the next preceding sentence, shall be made in annual installments, and the installment to be paid in any year shall be determined by the application of a percentage to the total compensation paid during said year, to persons who are members under Section 8.544, said percentage to be the ratio of the value on July 1, 1945, or at the late date of a periodical actuarial valuation and investigation into the experience under the system of the benefits thereafter to be paid under this section, from contributions of the City and County, less the amount of such contributions, and plus accumulated interest thereon, then held by said system to provide said benefits on account of service rendered by respective members after the date stated in the sentence next preceding, to the value at said respective dates of salaries thereafter payable to said members. Said values shall be determined by the actuary, who shall take into account the interest which shall be earned on said contributions, the compensation experience of members, and the probabilities of separation by all causes, of members from service before retirement and of death after retirement. Said percentage shall be changed only on the basis of said periodical actuarial valuation and investigation into the experience under the system. Said actuarial valuation shall be made every even-numbered year and said investigation into the experience under the system shall be made every odd-numbered year.
(g) To promote the stability of the Retirement System through a joint participation in the result of variations in the experience under mortality, investment and other contingencies, the contributions of both members and the City and County held by the system to provide the benefits under this section, shall be a part of the fund in which all other assets of said system are included. Nothing in this section shall affect the obligation of the City and County to pay to the Retirement System any amounts which may or shall become due under the provisions of the Charter prior to July 1, 1945, and which are represented on July 1, 1945, in the accounts of said system by debits against the City and County.
Upon the completion of the years of service set forth in Section 8.546 as requisite to retirement, a member of the police department shall be entitled to retire at any time thereafter in accordance with the provisions of said Section 8.546, and nothing shall deprive said member of said right.
No person retired as a member under Section 8.544 after June 30, 1945, for service or disability and entitled to receive a retirement allowance under the Retirement System shall serve in any elective or appointive position in the City and County service, including membership on boards and commissions, nor shall such person receive any payment for service rendered to the City and County after retirement, provided that service as an election officer or juror shall not be affected by this section.
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