shall deem sufficient, inviting proposals or bids therefor, and shall be awarded to the person who will pay the amount required to construct such improvement, and execute and take a lease thereof for the shortest period of such time.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER CCXXXI.

An act to amend sections four (4), five (5), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), and thirteen (13) of an act approved March 29, 1897, entitled "An act to amend an act approved March 26, 1895, entitled 'An act to create and administer a public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund in the several counties, and cities and counties in the state," as amended March 23, 1901.

[Approved March 20, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section four (4) of an act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to amend an act approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled 'An act to create and administer a public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund in the several counties, and cities and counties in the state,'" is hereby amended to read as follows, viz.:

Section 4. In addition to the powers herein before granted Expenses to said board, it shall have the power, (1) to provide for the of board. payment of its necessary expenses, such as printing, stationery, and postage stamps; and where the number of those subject to the burdens of this act is greater than one hundred, it may employ a clerk at a salary not to exceed fifty (50) dollars per annum; and (2) to make such needful rules and regulations for the transaction of its business, from time to time, as may be necessary; the said expenses and the said clerk's salary How paid. shall be paid from the annuity fund in such counties or consolidated cities and counties, wherein there shall be "annuity funds," but, wherever there shall be no "annuity fund," the said expenses shall be paid from the "distribution fund," and the said salary from the reserve fund.

SEC. 2. Section five (5) of the act designated in section one hereof is hereby amended to read as follows, viz.:

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Section 5. Those subject to the burdens of this act in each Committee county, or in each consolidated city and county, at a meeting ment. called for the purpose by the superintendent of public schools of such county or of such city and county, on the first Saturday in May following the creation of the fund hereinafter specified, shall elect by ballot five of their number, who shall constitute a committee on retirement; the members of said

committee shall, immediately after their election, classify themselves by lot so that one shall serve for one year, two serve for two years, and two shall serve for three years; and, annually, at a meeting to be called in the same manner on the first Saturday in May of each year after the first meeting, the successor or successors of the member or members of said committee whose term of office is about to expire, shall be elected for a term of three years; provided, however, that said comPersonnel mittee shall always consist of at least one class teacher from some primary school, one from some grammar school, and one from some high school in the county, or consolidated city and county, whenever such election is possible. In the event of a vacancy, the superintendent of schools shall appoint until the next annual election.

of committee.

Selection

of alternatives presented in Section 8.

Contribu

tors.

Within fifteen days after the taking effect of this amendatory act, the contributors to said fund in any county, or consolidated city and county, in this state, at a meeting called for that purpose, by the superintendent of public schools of such county, or consolidated city and county, (or if he neglects or refuses to call such meeting, then such meeting may be called by ten of such contributors,) may select and designate by resolution adopted by a majority vote of those present, which of the two alternatives presented in section 8 class two, in section 8 class six, in section 8 class seven, and in section 11, respectively, shall be followed in such county or consolidated city and county.

In the event that no such meeting is called or held for the purpose of making such selection and designation, the said contributors in such county, or consolidated city and county, wherein no such meeting shall be held, will be deemed to have selected the first (marked subdivision "A") of each of the above mentioned alternatives.

In counties and consolidated cities and counties where a public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund shall be hereafter created the said selection and designation shall be made at the said meeting to be held on the first Saturday in May following the creation of said fund. After any selection and designation shall have been made, pursuant to this section, no change shall ever be made thereafter in that connection. A certified copy of all resolutions adopted pursuant to this section shall be furnished by said meeting of said contributors to the board of public school teachers' retirement fund commissioners of such county or consolidated city and county.

SEC. 3. Section eight of the act designated in section one hereof is hereby amended to read as follows, viz.:

Section 8. Any public school teacher or any occupant of one of the offices mentioned in subdivision four of section twelve of this act, who has been a contributor under the provisions of this act, and who has ceased teaching, for a time, or has ceased to occupy such office, may again become a contributor upon returning to teaching in the public schools of this state, or upon becoming an occupant of any one of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, and shall thereupon

be credited with his said previous service and contribution; provided, that no person shall be a contributor to a public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund under this act who does not hold a valid certificate or diploma to teach in the public schools of this state.

The annuitants under this act are classed as follows:

ANNUITANTS.

Classification of annuitants.

Class One. Any teacher who shall have served in the public Class one. schools of this state for thirty years as a teacher, and who shall have been subject to the burdens imposed by this act for thirty years, shall be entitled to retire under the provisions of this act. Any teacher who has served in the public schools of this state, and who has served in one or more of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, and the aggregate period of whose service in the said public schools and in said office or offices shall be thirty years, and who shall have been subject to the burdens imposed by this act during said thirty years, shall be entitled to retire under the provisions of this act; provided, however, such teacher shall have held a valid certificate or diploma to teach in the public schools of this state during all of said period. Annuitants of class one shall be entitled to receive from the said public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund the sum of thirty (30) dollars per month in counties, and fifty (50) dollars per month in consolidated cities and counties, payable quarterly.

Class Two. Any teacher who shall have served in the public class two. schools of this state for thirty years, and who was unable to contribute to said public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund for thirty years, by reason of the non-establishment or non-existence of said fund, and any teacher who shall have served in the public schools of this state, and who shall have served in one or more of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, and the aggregate period of whose service in the said public schools, and in said office or offices, is thirty years, and who has held a valid certificate or diploma to teach in the public schools of this state during all of said period, and who was unable to contribute to said fund for thirty years by reason of the non-establishment or nonexistence of said fund, shall be retired upon application to the said board under either subdivision A or subdivision B, hereof, as the contributors to said fund in such county, or consolidated city and county, shall have selected to follow, as provided in section five of this act.

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A. Such applicant upon retirement shall receive from the First alterpublic school teachers' annuity and retirement fund the sum of thirty (30) dollars per month in counties, and fifty (50) dollars per month in consolidated cities and counties, payable quarterly; provided, that such applicant for retirement is, at the date of the taking effect of this amendatory act, a contributor to the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund in the county or consolidated city and county, where he is teaching or holding such office, or becomes a contributor thereto

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ternative.

Class three.

Class four.

within ninety (90) days after he becomes such teacher or such office holder, and shall have paid into the said fund, at the time of such retirement, a sum aggregating what he would have paid into said fund in thirty (30) years, had he been a contributor thereto for that period; provided, further, that annuities under this class shall not begin until five (5) years after the retired teacher became a contributor.

B. Such applicant upon retirement shall receive from the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund the sum of five (5) dollars per month, payable quarterly, for every two and one half (24) years (or fraction thereof equal to or greater than one half of two and one half years) such teacher or office holder shall have contributed to said fund, until the maximum annuity of thirty (30) dollars per month in counties and fifty (50) dollars per month in consolidated cities and counties shall have been reached; provided, that such applicant for retirement is, at the date of the taking effect of this amendatory act, a contributor to the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund in the county, or consolidated city and county where he is teaching or holding such office, or becomes a contributor within ninety (90) days after the taking effect of this amendatory act, or becomes a contributor thereto within ninety (90) days after he becomes such teacher or such office holder.

No person shall be retired under this subdivision unless he shall have paid into said fund, at the time of such retirement, a sum aggregating what he would have paid into said fund in thirty (30) years had he been a contributor thereto for that period.

No teacher or office holder shall be retired until he has been a contributor to the fund for five (5) years.

Class Three. Any public school teacher who shall have served for thirty years, twenty-five of which shall have been in the public schools of this state, or partly in the public schools of this state and partly in one or more of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, and who shall have been subject to the burdens imposed by this act for twenty-five years, shall receive upon retirement after thirty years of such service, the sum of thirty (30) dollars per month in counties, and fifty (50) dollars per month in consolidated cities and counties, payable quarterly; provided, he shall have paid into the said fund, at the time of such retirement, a sum aggregating what he would have paid into said fund in thirty (30) years, had he been a contributor thereto for that period.

Class Four. Any public school teacher or any officer mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, subject to the burdens of this act, who shall remove to another county in this state, may continue to be a contributor to the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund in the county, or in the consolidated city and county, from which he removed, so long as he continues to be a public school teacher or the occupant of one of said offices; and it is hereby made the duty of the county treasurer of the county, or consolidated city and

county, wherein such teacher or officer agreed to become subject to the burdens of this act, to receive such contributions of such non-residents, and to place such contributions to the credit of the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund.

Class Five. Any teacher who ceases to serve in the public Class five. schools of any county, or of any consolidated city and county, or who ceases to serve in one of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, in the county or consolidated city and county, where he has been subject to the burdens imposed by this act, and who shall have served in the public schools of this state for thirty (30) years, or who shall have served partly in the public schools of this state and partly in one or more of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, for an aggregate period of thirty (30) years, shall be entitled to retire, and to receive from the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund of the county, or consolidated city and county, to which he has contributed for at least five (5) years, an annuity equal to such proportion of the maximum annuity granted under this act as the time he has been subject to the burdens imposed by this act in such county, or consolidated city and county, bears to the period of thirty years.

Class Six. Contributors to said public school teachers' Class six. annuity and retirement fund retiring under this class, shall be retired either under subdivision A, or subdivision B hereof, as the contributors to said fund in such county, or consolidated city and county, shall have selected to follow, as provided in section five of this act.

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A. If any teacher, or any office holder mentioned in said First altersubdivision four of section twelve, after the expiration of fifteen (15) years, and before the expiration of thirty (30) years, of service in the public schools of this state, or of service partly in the said public schools and partly in one or more of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, shall be compelled, by reason of incapacity, to retire from public school service, or from one of the offices mentioned in said subdivision four of section twelve, while holding a valid certificate or diploma to teach in the public schools of this state, such retiring teacher, or office holder, if a contributor to the said fund at the time of retirement, shall be entitled to receive, from the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund, as many thirtieths (30ths) of the full annuity as he has had years of said service, by paying into the public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund the contributions to said fund corresponding to those years of service rendered at a time when, or in a place where, it was impossible to make such contributions by reason of the non-existence of a public school teachers' annuity and retirement fund; provided, that he shall have contributed to the said fund for five years before he becomes an annuitant. B. If any teacher or any office holder mentioned in said sub- Second aldivision four of section twelve, after the expiration of five years, and before the expiration of thirty years of service in the public

ternative.