Betts v. Board of Administration

Opinion

RICHARDSON, J.

Petitioner, who served as Treasurer of the State of California from 1959 to 1967, seeks a writ of mandate directing respondent Board of Administration (Board) of the Public Employees’ Retirement System to compute his retirement benefit on the basis of the salary payable to the present Treasurer, rather than on the basis of the highest salary received by petitioner during his term of office. The principal issue involves the effect of 1974 amendments to the Legislators’ Retirement Law (Gov. Code, § 9350 et seq.) which replaced a “fluctuating” system of computing retirement…