Title 19, Title 19

(1) A retired member who returns to employment covered by the retirement system for 480 hours or more in a calendar year must become an active member of the system. Upon reinstatement as an active member, benefit payments must cease until subsequent retirement. (2) A retired memb…

(1) A retired member who returns to active service pursuant to 19-7-1101(1) and accrues less than 5 years of service credit before again terminating service: (a) may not be awarded service credit for the period of reemployment; (b) must, upon termination of service and pursuant t…

(1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (1)(b), each sheriff shall become a member of the sheriffs' retirement system. (b) A sheriff who was a member of the public employees' retirement system on July 1, 1974, may remain a public employees' retirement system member or elect to b…

(1) After July 1, 1974, a sheriff may not become a member of the public employees' retirement system and the provisions of The Public Employees' Retirement System Act do not apply to sheriffs. (2) After July 1, 1993, an investigator is not eligible to become a member of the publi…

A person who elects to become a member of the sheriffs' retirement system pursuant to 19-7-301 may transfer the member's previous service credit in the public employees' retirement system or in another system provided for in chapter 5, 6, 8, 9, or 13 of this title into the sherif…

The following money must be paid to the board, which shall credit the payments to the pension trust fund: (1) all contributions by the various counties as required by this chapter; (2) all contributions by members as required by this chapter; (3) all interest on and increase of t…

(1) (a) Subject to subsection (1)(b), each member's contribution is 10.495% of the member's compensation. (b) The member's contribution required under this subsection (1) must be reduced to 9.245% on July 1 following the board's receipt of the system's actuarial valuation if: (i)…

(1) Each employer shall pay 9.535% of the compensation paid to all of the employer's employees plus any additional contribution under subsection (3), except for those employees properly excluded from membership. (2) (a) If the required contributions under subsections (1) and (3)(…

When a member receives compensation from both the member's employer and the workers' compensation program, the member's compensation reported by the employer is the same as if the member was in active service, and the member and employer contributions required by this chapter mus…

(1) (a) Subject to a member's right to a refund of the member's accumulated contributions under Title 19, chapter 2, part 6, a member hired on or before June 30, 2023, who has completed at least 20 years of membership service is eligible for a nonforfeitable service retirement be…

A member with at least 5 but less than 20 years of membership service may retire with a retirement benefit commencing no sooner than the first day of the month following the member's 50th birthday. The retirement benefit must be calculated to be the actuarial equivalent of the me…

(1) The amount of any service retirement benefit granted to a member is 2.5% of the member's highest average compensation for each year of service credit. (2) When a retired member receiving an option 1 retirement benefit under 19-7-1001 dies, the member's designated beneficiary …

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a vested member who becomes disabled must be granted a disability retirement benefit that is the actuarial equivalent of the service retirement benefit under 19-7-503 standing to the member's credit at the time of the member's disability …

(1) The board, in its discretion, may require the recipient of a disability retirement benefit to undergo a medical examination. The examination must be made by a board-approved physician or surgeon at a place mutually agreed on by the board, the disabled member, and the physicia…

(1) Subject to subsection (2), on January 1 of each year, the permanent monthly benefit payable during the preceding January to each recipient who is eligible under subsection (3) must be increased by the applicable percentage provided in subsection (4). (2) (a) If a recipient's …

(1) A law enforcement officer who has not changed employment but who has, because of a city-county consolidation, been transferred either from a city police force to a county sheriff's office or from a county sheriff's office to a city police force as a law enforcement officer is…

(1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (1)(b) and subject to 19-7-805, a member with at least 5 years of membership service may, at any time prior to retirement, file a written application with the board to purchase service credit and membership service for up to 5 years of the…

(1) Subject to 19-7-805, a member with at least 5 years of membership service may, at any time before retirement, file a written application with the board to purchase 1 additional year of service credit for each 5 years of membership service. (2) To purchase service credit under…

A member may not purchase a combined total of more than 5 years of service credit under 19-7-803 and 19-7-804.

If a member dies before retirement, the member's designated beneficiary may elect one of the following options for which the member qualified and for which the designated beneficiary qualifies: (1) a lump-sum payment of the accumulated contributions standing to the member's credi…