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NRS 286.541 Application for service retirement allowance or disability retirement allowance; effective date of retirement; rights of present or former spouse; System exempted from liability for false designation of marital status by member or retired member. 1. Applications for s…

NRS 286.545 Consent of spouse to retirement plan of member. 1. If the spouse of the member does not consent to the retirement plan chosen by the member before the date on which the retirement becomes effective pursuant to NRS 286.541 the System shall: (a) Notify the spouse that t…

NRS 286.551 Determination of monthly service retirement allowance. Except as otherwise required as a result of NRS 286.535 or 286.537: 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2: (a) For a member who has an effective date of membership before January 1, 2010, a monthly servi…

NRS 286.555 Refund of portion of contributions to certain persons who became members on or after January 1, 2010. 1. A person who becomes a member of the System on or after January 1, 2010, and whose monthly service retirement allowance is determined using an average compensation…

NRS 286.571 Postretirement increases: Calculation of increase for persons who became members on or after January 1, 2010, and before July 1, 2015. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, for a person who retires and who has an effective date of membership on or after Jan…

NRS 286.574 Postretirement increases: Calculation of increase for persons who became members on or after July 1, 2015. 1. For a person who retires and who has an effective date of membership on or after July 1, 2015, allowances or benefits must be increased once each year on the …

NRS 286.575 Postretirement increases: Payment; effect on monthly benefit. 1. Except as otherwise required as a result of NRS 286.537, a postretirement allowance must be paid from the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund or the Police and Firefighters’ Retirement Fund to each member …

NRS 286.5756 Postretirement increases: Persons receiving benefits before September 1, 1983, or for 3 years before increase. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 286.571 and 286.574, a person is entitled to the increase provided in this section if the person began receiving an a…

NRS 286.5765 Postretirement increases: Persons retired before July 1, 1963; persons retired before September 1, 1975, with 20 years’ credit for service; persons retired before July 1, 1989, with 20 years’ credit for service; separate account. 1. The System shall provide an increa…

NRS 286.577 Postretirement increases: Persons receiving allowance before July 1, 1975; persons with benefits commencing in 1975. 1. The System shall pay a postretirement allowance from the appropriate retirement fund to each member receiving a disability retirement allowance or s…

NRS 286.5775 Postretirement increases: Increases based on years allowance received; beneficiaries of deceased employees; limitations. 1. In addition to the other postretirement allowances and increases provided by law, if adequate money is available which has been designated for …

NRS 286.578 Postretirement increases: Increases payable July 1, 1979, and July 1, 1980. 1. In addition to other postretirement allowances or benefits provided by law, and subject to the limitation provided in subsection 3, the Public Employees’ Retirement System shall provide a p…

NRS 286.5785 Postretirement increases: Increases payable July 1, 1981, and July 1, 1982. 1. On July 1, 1981, and July 1, 1982, the System shall provide a cost-of-living increase to each retired employee or beneficiary. The increase must be based on the number of years the person …

NRS 286.579 Postretirement increases: Increase for persons receiving benefits before January 1, 1977. 1. In addition to the other postretirement allowances and increases provided by law, the System shall provide a monthly postretirement increase to each person who began receiving…

NRS 286.590 Alternatives to unmodified service retirement allowance. The alternatives to an unmodified service retirement allowance are as follows: 1. Option 2 consists of a reduced service retirement allowance payable monthly during the retired employee’s life, with the provisio…

NRS 286.592 Optional plans: Death of beneficiary; change of selection; effective date of termination or adjustment of allowance. 1. If a member enters retirement status under one of the optional plans described in NRS 286.590 and the designated beneficiary predeceases the retired…

NRS 286.612 Charges for deferred protection: Termination; adjustments of allowances or benefits. 1. Charges for deferred protection must not be made on or after July 1, 1995, against the: (a) Allowance payable to a beneficiary pursuant to NRS 286.600 or 286.610, as those sections…

NRS 286.615 Optional deduction from benefits for payments for group insurance, plan of benefits or medical and hospital service or other obligations; regulations; exemption of Executive Officer, Board and System from liability for errors or omissions. 1. In addition to the option…

NRS 286.620 Disability retirement allowance: Eligibility; calculation of amount; beneficiaries; effective date of termination or adjustment of allowance. 1. A member of the System who has 5 years or more of service credit and who becomes totally unable to perform the member’s cur…

NRS 286.630 Disability retirement allowance: Approval or denial of application; medical examination. 1. The Board shall designate medical advisers to review information which has been submitted by the private physician of the member, conduct medical examinations, make recommendat…

NRS 286.634 Disability retirement allowance: Effective date of retirement. 1. The effective date of disability retirement for a member whose application for disability retirement has been approved by the Board is: (a) The day after the member’s last day of employment; or (b) The …

NRS 286.637 Disability retirement allowance: Recipient to provide copy of federal income tax return; Board may require medical examinations. 1. Each recipient of a disability retirement allowance shall provide to the System a copy of the recipient’s federal income tax return and …

NRS 286.638 Disability retirement allowance: Reporting to Internal Revenue Service. The System shall, to the extent allowed by federal law, report to the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury a disability retirement allowance that is paid to a m…

NRS 286.640 Disability retirement allowance: Cancellation. 1. When the recipient of a disability retirement allowance is determined by the Board to be no longer disabled, the allowance must be cancelled. 2. An employee retired on account of disability whose benefit is cancelled m…

NRS 286.650 Disability retirement allowance: Consequences of employment of recipient. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, whenever a recipient of a disability retirement allowance returns to employment with a participating public employer, the allowance must be disco…

NRS 286.655 Payments for rehabilitation in lieu of disability retirement allowance. The Board may make direct payments to a public employer for the rehabilitation of a member eligible to receive a disability retirement allowance. These payments, up to but not exceeding the disabi…

NRS 286.660 Death of certain member before retirement: Disposition of money to member’s credit in Public Employees’ Retirement Fund. 1. If a person who is a member of the System and has less than 2 years of accredited contributing service or has more than 2 years of accredited se…

NRS 286.665 Death of member, retired employee or beneficiary: Transfer of contributions to retirement fund under certain circumstances; procedure for claiming transferred money. 1. Any contributions remaining in a member’s, retired employee’s or beneficiary’s individual account m…

NRS 286.667 Allowance for retired police officer or firefighter: Benefits for spouse upon death; credit for certain other service prohibited; costs of benefit paid by employee. 1. A retired employee whose service or disability retirement allowance is payable from the Police and F…

NRS 286.668 Forfeiture of rights and benefits under System for conviction of certain felonies; return of contributions upon conviction. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, a member who is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to any felony involving…

NRS 286.669 Person convicted of murder or voluntary manslaughter of member ineligible to receive benefits. Any person convicted of the murder or voluntary manslaughter of a member of the System is ineligible to receive any benefit conferred by any provision of this chapter by rea…

NRS 286.670 Right to benefits not subject to taxes, process, bankruptcy, assignment or assessment for impairment or insolvency of insurance company; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 31A.150 and 286.6703 and as limited by subsection 2, the right of a person to a …

NRS 286.6703 Payment of allowance or benefit to alternate payee pursuant to domestic relations order. 1. A person may submit a judgment, decree or order of a district court, the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada relating to child support, alimony or the…

NRS 286.6705 Transfer of unpaid check for benefits or refund to retirement fund; claim for payment of money; period of limitation. 1. Any check for benefits or a refund which has not been paid within 5 years after being transferred to the account for unclaimed benefits or refunds…

NRS 286.671 Definitions. As used in NRS 286.671 to 286.679, inclusive: 1. “Child” means an unmarried person under 18 years of age who is the issue or legally adopted child of a deceased member. As used in this subsection, “issue” means the progeny or biological offspring of the d…

NRS 286.672 Eligibility. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 and NRS 286.67665 and 286.67695, if a deceased member had 2 years of accredited contributing service in the 2 1/2 years immediately preceding the member’s death or was a regular, part-time employee who had 2…

NRS 286.673 Payments to child of deceased member. 1. Except as limited by NRS 286.6775, each child of a deceased member is entitled to receive a cumulative benefit of at least $400 per month, beginning on the first day of the month following the member’s death. 2. Payments to any…

NRS 286.674 Payments to spouse of deceased member. 1. The spouse of a deceased member is entitled to receive a cumulative benefit of at least $450 per month. The payments must begin on the first day of the month immediately following the death of the member and must cease on the …

NRS 286.676 Payments to spouse of deceased member who had 10 or more years of accredited contributing service. 1. Except as limited by subsections 3 and 4, the spouse of a deceased member who had 10 or more years of accredited contributing service is entitled to receive a monthly…

NRS 286.6765 Payments to spouse if deceased member was eligible to retire. 1. Except as limited by subsection 2, the spouse of a deceased member who was fully eligible to retire, both as to service and age, is entitled to receive a monthly allowance equivalent to that provided by…

NRS 286.6766 Payment in lump sum to spouse; exception. Any spouse eligible for payments under the provisions of NRS 286.674 or 286.676 may elect to waive payment of a monthly allowance and to receive instead in a lump sum a refund of all contributions to the Public Employees’ Ret…

NRS 286.67665 Payments to spouse of member killed in line of duty or course of employment on or after July 1, 2013. 1. The spouse of a member who is a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty on or after July 1, 2013, or the spouse of any other member killed in th…

NRS 286.6767 Designation of survivor beneficiary and additional payees by member. 1. A member may designate, in writing, a survivor beneficiary and one or more additional payees to receive the payments provided pursuant to NRS 286.67675, 286.6768 or 286.67685 if the member is unm…

NRS 286.67675 Payments to survivor beneficiary of and to additional payees designated by deceased member. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the survivor beneficiary of a deceased member is entitled to receive a cumulative benefit of at least $450 per month. If a…

NRS 286.6768 Payments to survivor beneficiary of and to additional payees designated by deceased member who had 10 or more years of accredited contributing service. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and as limited by subsection 4, the survivor beneficiary of a decea…

NRS 286.67685 Payment to survivor beneficiary of and to additional payees designated by deceased member if deceased member was eligible to retire. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and as limited by subsection 3, the survivor beneficiary of a deceased member who was…