A. "Aggregate service" means the total length of time that any person has been a duly appointed member of the Police and Fire Departments, including leave of absence with or without pay, and without regard to the continuity of such employment; and such aggregate service shall include any period of time during which a member shall receive benefits under Section 4.28.090, but shall not include any period of time during which a member shall receive benefits under other provisions of this chapter, and shall not include any period of time during which a member does not contribute to the fund except during such period as they may be receiving benefits under Section 4.28.090 hereof and except as provided in Section 4.28.310 hereof.

B. Whereas the word "board" has heretofore meant the Police and Fire Employees Pension Board, it shall henceforth mean the safety members pension board, and whenever the word "board" appears it shall hereinafter refer to the Safety Members Pension Board.

C. Whereas the word "fund" has heretofore meant the Police and Fire Employees Pension Fund, it shall henceforth mean the safety members pension fund, and whenever the word "fund" appears in Ordinance 3558-NS, as codified herein, it shall hereinafter refer to the safety members pension fund.

D. "Member," or "member of the Police or Fire Department," means any person regularly appointed to service in the Police or Fire Department of the City between July 1, 1957, and March 1, 1973, who has authorized and made the contributions provided for in Section 4.28.280, and who, in an election held for that purpose, elects not to transfer to the California Public Employees Retirement System. In the Police Department the term shall not include community service assistant, reserve police officer, police trainee, police aide, or other civilian employees; in the Fire Department the term shall not include clerks, stenographers, typists or other civilian or temporary employees.

E. "Pensioner" means any person who shall be receiving a pension under the terms and provisions of this chapter.

F. "The average monthly rate of salary which such member shall have received during the three years immediately preceding the date of retirement" means one thirty-sixth of the aggregate salary to which such member was entitled under the salary ordinances of the City for the three-year period immediately preceding the date of retirement, without any deductions for leaves of absence without pay or credits for overtime. (Ord. 4847-NS § 3 (part), 1976: Ord. 4623-NS § 2, 1973: Ord. 4446-NS (part), 1969: Ord. 3913-NS § 1, 1962: Ord. 3558-NS § 1, 1957)