The purpose of this chapter is to recognize a public obligation to county and district employees who become incapacitated by age or long service in public employment and its accompanying physical disabilities by making provision for retirement compensation and death benefit as additional elements of compensation for future services and to provide a means by which public employees who become incapacitated may be replaced by more capable employees to the betterment of the public service without prejudice and without inflicting a hardship upon the employees removed.
Cal. Gov. Code § 31451
General
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 63 Cal. App. 3d 421 - Heaton v. Marin County Employees Retirement Board (1976)
Most recently applied in Katosh v. Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Ass'n (May 2008)
Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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