Title 47

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘eligible member’’ means a person who became a member of a public retirement or pension system prior to the plan year beginning after December 31, 1995. (b) Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum compens…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) ‘‘Annual compensation’’ means compensation during the determination period. Such term shall include any cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year if the determination period begins with or within such calendar year. (2…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘retirement system’’ means any public retirement system created by this title. Such term also means any association of like political subdivisions the purpose of which is the pooling of funds for retirement or pension purposes. (b) Any …

Unless otherwise expressly stated elsewhere in this title, in the event a person designated by a member of a public retirement or pension system created by this title as the primary beneficiary of a survivors benefit provided by such system does not survive the member by at least…

(a) The boards of trustees or directors, by whatever name known, of any two or more retirement systems created by general law, pursuant to the mutual consent of such boards, may pool their trust funds for the purposes of joint investment. The board of trustees or directors, by wh…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘local retirement system’’ means any retirement, pension, or emeritus system covering an employee or employees of a county, municipality, local board of education, or other political subdivision, or any groups or classifications of such…

Based on the most recent actuarial investigations on file pursuant to subsection (d) of Code Section 47-1-3 and financial reports submitted under subsections (e) through (j) of Code Section 47-1-3, the state auditor, once every two years beginning on January 1, 1997, shall submit…

It shall be the duty of the governing authority of each county, municipality, or other political subdivision whose employees are covered under a local retirement system and the duty of a local board of education whose employees are covered under a local retirement system to cause…

(a) No veteran of World War II who was discharged other than dishonorably and who was furloughed from a position of employment with a county or municipal government which has a retirement or pension plan for the position occupied shall suffer or otherwise lose any seniority towar…

The board of trustees or other person or body having the power to manage, invest, and reinvest the assets of any retirement, pension, or emeritus system or fund created under the laws of this state may authorize any agent, including a bank or trust company, employed to act as cus…

No person becoming a member of the General Assembly for the first time on or after July 1, 1984, shall be entitled to receive or shall receive any creditable service under any local retirement or pension system for service as a member of the General Assembly unless the law, ordin…

(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this Code section, any member of the General Assembly holding office on January 1, 1986, may obtain creditable service for membership in the General Assembly obtained on and after that date only for the purposes of the Georgia Legislati…

As used in this article, the term: (1) ‘‘Conviction’’ means a judgment of conviction for the commission of a crime which is entered upon a verdict or plea of guilty. (1.1) ‘‘Drug related crime’’ means a felony specified in subsection (b) of Code Section 16-13-30 and any felony sp…

(a) This Code section shall apply to public employees in service on July 1, 1985, as long as such employees remain in continuous service as public employees. Any public employee in service on July 1, 1985, who ceases to be a public employee on or after that date and who subsequen…

(a) This Code section shall apply to public employees first or again becoming public employees after July 1, 1985. (b) If a public employee commits a public employment related crime in the capacity of a public employee and is convicted for the commission of such crime, upon final…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, this Code section shall not apply to any public employee in service on July 1, 1990, and shall apply only to those public employees entering public service after July 1, 1990. A public employee in service on July 1, 1990, who c…

Upon the final conviction of any person for a public employment related crime, the prosecuting attorney shall so notify the defendant’s former public employer and any public retirement system in which he or she knows the convicted public employee to be an active, inactive, or ret…

Nothing in this article shall be construed to create a right for any public employee who is charged with the commission of a public employment related crime to remain a public employee or a member of a public retirement system until such employee is finally convicted for the comm…

No person who commits or conspires to commit the murder or voluntary manslaughter of a member, retiree, or beneficiary under a public retirement system shall receive any refund of contributions or any benefit under the public retirement system upon the death of the member, retire…

Within 30 days following the day the board of trustees receives notice that a member of the retirement system has been convicted of a public employment related crime, the board shall initiate proceedings in the Office of State Administrative Hearings, under the provisions of Arti…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) ‘‘Board of trustees’’ means the board of trustees or other fiscal authority or governing body, by whatever name designated, of a retirement system. (2) ‘‘Retirement system’’ means a retirement or pension system or fund created by or…

Any other provision of this title to the contrary notwithstanding, any discretionary postretirement benefit increase granted on or after July 1, 1993, by the board of trustees of any public retirement system pursuant to the authority to grant such increases within the limits of a…

As used in this article, the term: (1) ‘‘Public employee’’ means an active member of a retirement system defined in paragraph (2) of this Code section. (2) ‘‘Retirement system’’ means: (A) The Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia provided for in Chapter 2 of this title; (B) Th…

A public employee may receive creditable service under the public employee’s respective retirement system for a maximum of 12 months of temporary disability. A public employee wishing to obtain such creditable service shall apply to the board of trustees or other official or body…

Obtaining creditable service pursuant to the provisions of this article shall not preclude the use of the provisions of this article to obtain creditable service for another future temporary disability, provided that there is a period of at least five years of active service as a…

The provisions of this article shall apply to periods of temporary disability which occurred prior to July 1, 1994, as well as those which occur on or after that date. The boards of trustees or other officials or bodies administering retirement systems may by rule or regulation r…

As used in this article, the term: (1) ‘‘Creditable service’’ means service with a public retirement system or fund used in the same manner as actual service in the computation of all rights and benefits. (2) ‘‘Public retirement system or fund’’ means a public retirement system o…

Any qualified returning veteran shall be eligible to establish creditable service with his or her retirement system or fund for not more than five years of qualified service by complying with the provisions of this article; provided, however, that such five-year period shall be e…

(a) Any qualified returning veteran desiring to establish creditable service for a period of qualified service shall so notify the board of trustees of the public retirement system or fund. The board of trustees shall calculate the amount of employee or member contribution which …

Notwithstanding any other provision of this title to the contrary, distributions from any public retirement or pension system shall conform to a good-faith interpretation of Section 401(a)(9) of the federal Internal Revenue Code and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such se…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title to the contrary, any public retirement or pension system shall be subject to the following provisions: (1)(A) Benefits shall begin by the required beginning date, which is the later of April 1 of the calendar year following th…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) ‘‘Direct rollover’’ means a payment by the public retirement or pension system subject to this title to the eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee or to the surviving spouse of the distributee. (2) ‘‘Distributee’’ mea…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) ‘‘Annual benefit’’ means a retirement benefit under the public retirement or pension system which is payable annually in the form of a straight life annuity. (2) ‘‘Applicable mortality table’’ means the table prescribed by the feder…

(a) Notwithstanding anything in this Code section to the contrary, the annual benefit payable to a plan member shall not be deemed to exceed the limits of Section 415 of the federal Internal Revenue Code if the annual benefit payable to the plan member under a public retirement o…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title to the contrary, the board of trustees of a retirement or pension system may modify a request by a plan member to make a contribution to the public retirement or pension system if the amount of the contribution would exceed th…

(a) The assets of a public retirement or pension system shall be held in trust, and it shall not be possible at the time prior to satisfaction of all liabilities to plan members and their beneficiaries under the public retirement or pension system for any part of said assets to b…

Any other provision of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, to the extent that the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System created by Chapter 5 of this title has adopted a plan document or rules and regulations that are in compliance with Sect…