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TITLE 1. GENERAL EDUCATION CODE PROVISIONS 1-32527›DIVISION 1. GENERAL EDUCATION CODE PROVISIONS 1-32527›PART 13. STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM 22000-25115›CHAPTER 13. Service Credit 22700-22724

§ 22709

California Education Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

A member shall receive credit under this part for time during which the member is prevented from performing creditable service subject to coverage under the Defined Benefit Program, by act of God, or by reason of the closing of a school by any duly authorized officer or body. If by reason of a member’s Japanese ancestry, the member was required by the Wartime Civil Control Administration to leave his or her teaching position in California and returned prior to July 1, 1972, to service subject to coverage under the Defined Benefit Program, the system shall give the member four years of service credit under this part.

(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 965, Sec. 80. Effective January 1, 1999.)

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