Title 5 — Title 5: State Employees

Sec. 5-168. Death benefit–beneficiaries. (a) Upon the death of a member before his retirement date, the beneficiary named by the member shall receive a death benefit equal to the member's retirement contributions, without interest. (b) Upon the death of a member after his retirem…

Sec. 5-168a. Death benefit where member elected option. If income payments are payable from the state employees retirement system under section 5-165 or section 5-165a to a beneficiary of a member, then the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 5-168 shall not apply to…

Sec. 5-169. Disability retirement. Calculation. Board. Limitation of benefits. Offset and maximum benefit limitation. Cost of living adjustment. Alternative disability compensation. Board petition. (a) If a member of the state employees retirement system, while in state service, …

Sec. 5-170. Effect of workers' compensation and disability payments. (a) Except as provided in subsection (i) of section 5-169, a member shall not be entitled to receive or retain retirement income payments made for any period for which the member has received or receives disabil…

Sec. 5-171. Assignments prohibited. Any assignment by a member or beneficiary of any amount payable to either under the terms of this chapter shall be null and void. Each such payment shall be for the support of the member or beneficiary entitled thereto and shall be exempt from …

Sec. 5-172. Minor and incompetent payees. If the payee for any payment under this chapter is a minor, or if the Retirement Commission finds that any payee is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt and discharge for any payment due him, the Comptroller may, upon the advice of…

Sec. 5-172a. Health service insurance coverage for certain retired state employees. Section 5-172a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1971, P.A. 625, S. 1; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.) PART IV SPECIAL SERVICE CREDIT RULES

Sec. 5-173. Hazardous duty service. (a) A state policeman in the active service of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, or any person who is engaged in guard or instructional duties at the Connecticut Correctional Institu…

Sec. 5-174. Educational leave. A member who is or has been granted a leave of absence without pay to pursue a course of study which is connected with the work of the agency and which is for the purpose of increasing his proficiency in his position shall be entitled to credit towa…

Sec. 5-174a. Sick leave. A member of the state employees retirement system who is or has been granted a leave of absence without pay for the protection or improvement of his health shall be entitled to credit toward retirement for the period of such leave, but not to exceed twelv…

Sec. 5-175. State-aided institutions. (a) Employees of each of the following-named private corporations, herein called state-aided institutions, shall be covered by the retirement system: The American School at Hartford for the Deaf, The Connecticut Institute for the Blind and Ne…

Sec. 5-175a. Operators of vending stands in public buildings. Credit for prior years of service. (a) Vending stand operators, operating stands under permits held by the Department of Aging and Disability Services pursuant to section 17a-818, shall be members of the state employee…

Sec. 5-175b. Time limit for purchase of certain kinds of service credit. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5-176, 5-177, 5-177a, 5-181, 5-184, 5-187a, 5-189, 5-190, 5-190a, 5-192a, subsection (b) of section 5-180 and subsections (b) and (d) of section 5-182, no member wh…

Sec. 5-176. Prior public school service. A member with permanent status who was previously employed in the public schools of this state and who was a member of the Teachers' Retirement Association, may receive credit for retirement purposes for all such service for which he paid …

Sec. 5-177. Credit for out-of-state or foreign service to educational institutions. Any person in the unclassified service employed full time by the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut, the State Board of Education, the Technical Education and Career System, the De…

Sec. 5-177a. Credit for university employees with prior service as hospital pharmacist. Any person in the unclassified service employed full time by The University of Connecticut, who served prior to his employment by the state in a teaching or administrative position as a hospit…

Sec. 5-178. Probation officers. Any municipal employee who has been taken into state service under the provisions of section N231 of the November, 1955, supplement to the general statutes shall be credited with his entire period of service as a municipal employee for retirement p…

Sec. 5-179. Services paid for by federal grant. The time during which any state employee performed services, the direction of which remained in the state agency to which such employee was attached although his compensation was paid directly by federal grant, shall be considered a…

Sec. 5-180. Military service. (a) The war service before September 1, 1939, of a veteran, as defined in section 27-103 and section 5-196, shall be counted as state service if the member began to make his retirement contributions before September 1, 1941, and made retirement contr…

Sec. 5-181. Credit for prior state service. Credit for service in the General Assembly. (a) A member who has been in state service for some past period or periods not otherwise credited for retirement purposes, and for which he cannot obtain credit for retirement purposes under a…

Sec. 5-181a. Credit for service with United States federal government. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-175b, a member of the state employees retirement system who has been in the active full-time employment of the United States federal government for some past period …

Sec. 5-181b. Continuation of membership during service as elected official. (a) Any member of tier I of the state employees retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may ele…

Sec. 5-182. Miscellaneous service credits. (a) A member who has made contributions on all his salary received from September 1, 1939, to his retirement date, and who began to make his retirement contributions before September 1, 1941, shall receive credit for his service before S…

Sec. 5-183. Transferred county employees. (a) The employees of any county participating in chapter 48 of the general statutes, revision of 1949, who were taken into state service under the provisions of section 1464d of the 1955 supplement thereto shall be credited with their ent…

Sec. 5-184. Credit for service with county or county agricultural extension office. Any full-time state employee and any appointee of the General Assembly or either branch thereof, or of any officer or committee thereof, who served previously as a county employee or in a clerical…

Sec. 5-185. County trust funds transferred to retirement fund. Any trust fund established for retirement purposes by a county and which was on June 21, 1961, in the possession of the State Treasurer shall be transferred to the State Employees Retirement Fund. Each employee for wh…

Sec. 5-186. Transfer from Municipal Retirement Fund. Except as provided in section 6-2b, there shall be no further liability of any county for payment into the Connecticut Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund. There shall be transferred to the State Employees Retirement Fund from…

Sec. 5-187. Sheriffs and chief deputies. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the sheriff of each county and the chief deputy sheriff of each county are employees of the state so far as salaries received by them from the state are concerned, including fees on a Judicial Departme…

Sec. 5-187a. Credit for former service as deputy sheriff. Any member of the state employees retirement system who as a former deputy sheriff served prior to 1952 as a court officer in the Supreme Court, the Superior Court or the Court of Common Pleas may elect to obtain credit un…

Sec. 5-187b. Special deputy sheriffs appointed before July 1, 1999: Membership and credit. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, each special deputy sheriff, appointed pursuant to section 6-43 before July 1, 1999, shall become a member of the state employees retirement s…

Sec. 5-187c. Special deputy sheriffs appointed on or after July 1, 1999, and judicial marshals employed on or after December 1, 2000: Membership and credit. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, each special deputy sheriff, appointed pursuant to section 6-43 on or af…

Sec. 5-188. Retirement salary of detectives. (a) For the purposes of this section “detective” means any detective, chief inspector or inspector in the Division of Criminal Justice or chief detective. (b) (1) Each detective who is forty-seven years of age or over and who has compl…

Sec. 5-189. Credit to court employees for prior municipal service. Each employee of the Superior Court shall be credited for retirement purposes for his entire period of full-time service as an employee of a municipal, city, police, justice or traffic court, provided he shall pay…

Sec. 5-190. Court reporters to receive credit for service as municipal court stenographers. Any person taken into state service as a court reporter who previously served as court stenographer in any municipal court shall be credited with his entire period of full-time service as …

Sec. 5-190a. Retirement credit for employees of the Criminal Justice Division and public defenders. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each employee of the Division of Criminal Justice and each public defender, assistant public defender and deputy assistant…

Sec. 5-190b. Participation in retirement systems by certain teachers at E. O. Smith School; certain service treated as continuous employment by board of education. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute, charter or special act to the contrary, affecting teacher ten…

Sec. 5-191. Credit for service to other states. A member of the state employees retirement system who has been in the active full-time employment of another state or states for some past period or periods for which he has received or will receive no retirement benefit or pension …

Sec. 5-191a. Reimbursement of certain retired employees for moneys deducted from retirement allowance. Section 5-191a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1967, P.A. 710; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-192. Credit for transferred McCook Hospital employees. (a) Each person who was transferred to state employment under the provisions of section 5-268d of the 1967 supplement to the general statutes shall be credited for retirement purposes for his entire period of full-time…

Sec. 5-192a. Credit for state college bookstore employees. Each employee under section 5-268d of the 1969 supplement to the general statutes shall be credited for retirement purposes under this chapter with his period of full-time service as an employee of any such bookstore upon…

Sec. 5-192b. Credit for previous membership in a municipal retirement system. (a) Any person who became a member of the state employees retirement system and who previously was a member of the Connecticut municipal employees' retirement system shall receive credit for the purpose…

Sec. 5-192c. Transfer from teachers' retirement system to state employees retirement system. No person who has creditable service as a member of the teachers' retirement system and who transfers, on or after July 1, 1978, to the state employees retirement system shall be entitled…

Sec. 5-192d. Administration of retirement funds for teachers at E. O. Smith School. The employer contribution for retirement benefits for teachers at the E. O. Smith School who are members of the state employees retirement system shall be included in amounts appropriated from the…

Sec. 5-192e. Application. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of sections 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, shall apply to all members who first join the state employees retirement system after July 1, 1984, and members of bargaining units which are party to…

Sec. 5-192f. Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Year's breakpoint” means, with respect to the calendar year in which occurs a member's last severance from service date, ten thousand seven hundred dollars increased by six per cen…

Sec. 5-192g. Eligibility and membership. (a) Membership in the tier II plan shall be required for each state employee, whether or not exempt from the classified service, appointed after January 1, 1984, unless specifically excluded in this section or unless section 5-192e mandate…

Sec. 5-192h. Election by judges. (a) Any person who is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court or Superior Court and who has at the time of his appointment at least ten years of credited service under the tier II plan may, at any time within ten years after initial appointment as …

Sec. 5-192i. Vesting service. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, vesting service is all service with the state commencing on the employee's employment commencement date or reemployment commencement date and ending on his severance from service date. The employment …

Sec. 5-192j. Credited service. (a) All vesting service rendered on or after October 1, 1982, by a member of the tier II plan shall be credited service under the plan. Any period of absence recognized as service under subsection (b) or (e) of section 5-192i, shall, however, be exc…

Sec. 5-192k. Part-time employees; eligibility; computation of benefits. (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for benefits for part-time employees under sections 5-192l, 5-192m, 5-192o and 5-192p, a member's part-time service shall be treated as full-time service. (b) For p…