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 California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014)
  Education Code - EDC
 Title 1. GENERAL EDUCATION CODE PROVISIONS
 Division 1. GENERAL EDUCATION CODE PROVISIONS
 Part 13. STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
 Chapter 27. Service Retirement

  Section 24204.  

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  • (a) A service retirement allowance under this part shall become effective upon any date designated by the member, provided all of the following conditions are met:

    (1) An application for service retirement allowance is filed on a form provided by the system, which is executed no earlier than six months before the effective date of retirement allowance.

    (2) The effective date is later than the last day of creditable service for which compensation is payable to the member.

    (3) The effective date is no earlier than the date on which the retirement allowance was terminated under Section 24208.

    (4) The effective date is no earlier than one year following the date on which the retirement allowance was terminated under subdivision (a) of Section 24117.

    (5) The effective date is no earlier than the date upon and continuously after which the member is determined to the satisfaction of the board to have been mentally incompetent.

    (6) The effective date is no earlier than the date upon which the member completes payment of a service credit purchase pursuant to Section 22801, 22820, or 22826, or payment of a redeposit of contributions pursuant to Section 23200, except as provided in Section 22801 or 22829.

    (7) The effective date is no earlier than the first day of the month in which the application for disability benefits is received at the system's headquarters office, as established pursuant to Section 22375, if the application is made pursuant to Section 24201.5.

    (b) A member who files an application for service retirement may change or cancel his or her retirement application, as long as the form provided by the system is received in the system's headquarters office, established pursuant to Section 22375, no later than 30 days from the date the member's initial benefit payment for the member's most recent retirement under the Defined Benefit Program is paid by the system.

    (c) The retirement date of a member retiring on and after January 1, 2012, shall be no earlier than January 1, 2012.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Effective July 17, 2012.)