Sacramento Municipal Code Art. XI Collection of Members and City Contributions

The board shall adopt rates of contribution to comply with the applicable funding provisions of this chapter and the City Charter. The rates so adopted shall remain in effect until revised by the board in the manner provided in the City Charter. The rate of contribution for members under the Section 399 plan shall be as specified in former (1989) Charter Section 403. (Prior code § 34.11.1100)

The retirement system manager shall certify to the director of finance the rate of contribution for each member. The director of finance shall apply such rate of contribution to the compensation, before deduction for any reason other than absence from duty, of the member to determine the amount to be contributed by each member, as a deduction from such compensation on each payroll and shall furnish a copy of each and every such payroll to the retirement system manager; and each of such amounts shall be deducted by the director of finance and shall be deposited in the retirement system, and shall be credited, together with interest, to the individual account of the member for whom the contribution was made.

Cash payments may be made by any member of amounts necessary to correct or adjust the contribution account of such member. The amount so paid shall be deposited and credited in the same manner as if deducted on a payroll. (Prior code § 34.11.1101)

Every member shall be deemed to consent and agree to the contribution made and provided for herein, and shall receipt in full for his or her salary or compensation, and payment less such contribution shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such person during the period covered by such payment, except his or her claims to the benefits to which he or she may be entitled under the provisions of this chapter. (Prior code § 34.11.1102)

Subject to rules prescribed by the board, any member may elect to contribute at rates in excess of those provided for in this chapter for the purpose of providing additional benefits. Benefits provided by this chapter shall be exclusive of such additional benefits. The exercise of this privilege by a member shall not require the city to make additional contributions on behalf of such member. The provisions of Section 2.124.1880 of this chapter shall apply also to additional contributions. The board, upon request, shall furnish to such member information concerning the nature and amount of additional benefits to be provided by such additional contributions. (Prior code § 34.11.1103)

At periodic intervals, as determined by the board, the director of finance shall pay to the retirement system the city's contributions required by this chapter and the City Charter to fund costs of providing benefits under the system. The amount of contributions shall be determined by the board. (Prior code § 34.11.1104)

Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.124.730 of this chapter and former (1989) Charter Section 421, upon a member's reentry into the retirement system at reinstatement from disability retirement or upon his or her reentry into city service following his or her election under the applicable provisions of Articles II, III, IV, V, and VI or Article XVII of the City Charter to allow his or her accumulated contributions to remain in the retirement system, his or her normal rate of contribution shall be based upon an age determined by adding the number of completed years of his or her absence from city service to the age upon which his or her normal rate of contribution, as it was prior to such retirement or election, as the case may be, was based. Upon reentry into city service, and redeposit of withdrawn accumulated contributions, the member's normal rate of contributions shall be determined in accordance with Section 2.124.1930 of this chapter. (Prior code § 34.11.1105)

Any member may redeposit in the retirement system, in one sum or in not to exceed twenty-four (24) bi-weekly payments, an amount equal to that which he or she withdrew therefrom at the last termination of his or her membership. If a member upon reentering the retirement system after a termination of his or her membership shall not redeposit at least the accumulated normal contributions so withdrawn by him or her, he or she shall reenter as a new member without credit for any service and the rate of his or her contribution for future years shall be the normal rate provided for in this chapter for his or her age of reentrance. If such member redeposits his or her accumulated contributions, his or her normal rate of contribution for future years shall be based on an age determined by adding the number of completed years of his or her absence from membership, beginning with the earliest termination of his or her membership included in such redeposit, to the age upon which his or her normal rate of contribution, as it was prior to the termination, was based. In that event, city service with which he or she was credited when his or her membership was terminated shall be recredited to him or her, and his or her membership shall be the same as if it were unbroken by termination, beginning with the earliest termination included in such redeposit. (Prior code § 34.11.1106)

Except as herein provided, no transfer of accumulated contributions of the city shall be made on account of the withdrawal of accumulated contributions by a member, or on account of the death of a member which does not qualify for an allowance under this chapter, but upon the death or retirement of a person who is a member under Articles III, IV and VI of this chapter, accumulated contributions of the city previously held for the benefit of such member, actuarially equivalent to that portion of the allowance granted to him or her or to his or her beneficiary, which is chargeable to service rendered as a member of the retirement system, shall thereafter be included in the amounts available to meet the obligation of the city on account of prior service to members.

Upon the withdrawal of accumulated contributions by a person who is a member under Article V of this chapter, the accumulated contributions of the city made on behalf of said person, as determined by the board, shall be used together with other available member and city contributions, to meet the obligation of the members and the city to pay the allowances and benefits provided by Article V of this chapter. (Prior code § 34.11.1107)