SECTIONS 50800-50807 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 50800-50807

50800. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and
general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction
of this chapter.

50801. "Board" means Board of Firemen's Pension Fund Commissioners
or Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners.

50802. "Fund" means the Police Relief and Pension Fund or the
Firemen's Relief and Pension Fund.

50803. "Department" means regularly constituted fire department or
regularly constituted police department.

50804. "Member" means a person duly appointed or selected and sworn
as a member of the regularly constituted police department if the
local agency has established a police relief and pension fund
pursuant to this chapter.

50805. "Member" also means any person duly appointed or selected
and sworn as a member of the regularly constituted fire department if
the local agency has established a firemen's relief and pension fund
pursuant to this chapter.

50806. Every local agency in which there is a police department or
a fire department may establish a relief and pension fund for either
department or for both departments. If a fund is established for both
departments, there shall be two separate funds, one for each
department. The fund established for the police department shall be
known as the police relief and pension fund. The fund established for
the fire department shall be known as the firemen's relief and
pension fund.

50807. Any fund, for the relief or pensioning of police officers or
firemen, their life or health insurance, or the payment of a sum of
money on their death, is merged with and constitutes a part of the
fund created for that purpose pursuant to this chapter.