Despite being convicted of four felonies this week by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury, former City Councilman Richard Alarcón will continue to receive his $116,000 annual pension, an official said Thursday.

Unlike some other California jurisdictions, Los Angeles doesn’t prohibit city employees convicted of felonies from receiving pensions, a representative of the city’s civilian retirement division said.

Alarcón was convicted Wednesday of four counts of perjury and voter fraud for living outside Council District 7 and lying about his address on official documents. His wife Flora, 49, was convicted of three counts.

His attorney Richard Lasting said Thursday he will file court documents in the coming weeks to have the case tossed out.

Alarcón’s conviction comes three months after City Councilman Mitchell Englander introduced a motion that would require city workers convicted of a felony involving the use of their city position to forfeit their pension. The proposed law was spurred by revelations over the $72,000 annual pension collected by a recently convicted city building inspector, Englander’s motion states.

Englander’s office didn’t respond to a comment Thursday. But earlier in the week, an Englander spokeswoman said the councilman is still pushing to pass the ordinance. Amid growing scrutiny over workers’ benefits, Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012 signed a law requiring public employees convicted of a felony to forfeit retirement benefits accrued after the date the felony occurred. However, Los Angeles has its own pension systems, and the state law doesn’t apply to the city.

Jack Pitney, government professor at Claremont McKenna College said Los Angeles is sending a “bad signal” on the issue.

“It’s sending the message that the city doesn’t take convictions very seriously,” Pitney said. The practice may also anger other city workers whose pensions are being trimmed back by city leaders, he said.

City councilman and former Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks, whose own hefty annual pension has been criticized, didn’t seem fazed by Alarcón’s pension allocation, despite the convictions.

“He earned the pension — once you earned it, it’s yours,” Parks said Thursday. “By City Charter, there’s nothing you can do retroactively to take it away. Just because he was found guilty does not terminate nor mitigate the contract he had with the City as an employee.”

Alarcón’s guilty verdict comes six months after Sen. Rod Wright was convicted by a jury of living outside the boundaries of his South Bay district and lying about his address.

Unlike Los Angeles City Council members, state legislators don’t get retirement benefits. In 1990, voters approved Proposition 140, which eliminated pensions for state lawmakers.