Section 31663.26.

Notwithstanding Section 31663.25, any safety member who has reached the applicable compulsory age of retirement, if any, or any safety member who is a full-time employee, has completed 10 years of service, has reached the age of 50, and has no service break which exceeds 12 months, or any safety member who has completed 20 years of service regardless of age, may be retired upon filing with the board a written application setting forth the date upon which he or she desires his or her retirement to become effective which shall be not more than 60 days after the date of filing the application.

This section shall not be operative in any county until such time as the board of supervisors shall, by ordinance, make this section applicable in the county.

(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 164, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 2009.)