Title 36, Title 36 Officers and Employees

(a) Any state employee who shall have rendered service as a teacher as defined under the provisions of chapters 16 and 17 of title 16 shall be entitled to credit for that service for the various purposes of this system, provided the member shall have been a contributing member of…

Notwithstanding any general or public law to the contrary, any state employee or teacher participating in the employees’ retirement system who is on workers’ compensation may purchase up to four (4) years of service credit for time currently permitted to be purchased under law wi…

It shall be the duty of the head of each department and agency to furnish at the times and in the manner that the retirement board and/or the retirement system may direct, information concerning the name, title, compensation, duties, date of birth, and length of service of each m…

If any member becomes a beneficiary, dies, or receives a refund of contributions, he or she shall thereupon cease to be a member, subject, however, to the provisions of § 36-10-8 in regard to reinstatement of membership in the case of a member who has received a refund and who ha…

If a member leaves the service of the state but does not receive a refund of his or her contributions, his or her membership in the system shall continue but his or her status shall be that of an inactive member. In no event shall an inactive member be entitled to an annuity, ben…

(a) Whenever any state school lunch employee, who is a member of the system as a full-time employee is involuntarily transferred to a position of less than twenty (20) hours per week, the employee shall remain a contributing member of the retirement system and receive full credit…

(a) The retirement board shall fix and determine, by appropriate rules and regulations, how much service in any year is equivalent to a year of service, but in computing that service or in computing the compensation it shall credit no period of more than a month’s duration during…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the retirement law or rulings of the retirement board in accordance with the powers vested therein, state employees with at least one year of service who have been granted by their appointing authority a leave of absence without pay to …

(a) Members who are laid off for any reason and are not on leave without pay may purchase up to one years’ credit for retirement purposes; provided the member did not withdraw his or her retirement contributions while on layoff, and returns to active membership; provided, further…

At retirement, the total service credited a member shall consist of the service rendered by him or her as an employee during his or her membership, and also, if he or she has a prior service certificate which is in full force and effect, the service as an employee certified on hi…

Whenever any retired member of the Rhode Island state police shall be an employee of the state or any of its agencies, commissions, or bureaus in any capacity, other than as a member of the state police, as defined in chapter 8 of this title, that employee shall be eligible to pa…

(a) Any active member of the retirement system, who served on active duty in the armed service of the United States or in the Merchant Marine service of the United States as defined in P.L. 1946, ch. 1721, § 2 may purchase credit for that service up to a maximum of four (4) years…

(a) Any active member who served in the peace corps, teacher corps, or in volunteers in service to America may purchase credit for that service up to a maximum of four (4) years in the aggregate; provided, that any member on an official leave of absence for illness or injury shal…

(a) In the event that the Narragansett Bay water quality management commission, hereinafter referred to as “commission”, shall acquire a sewage treatment facility, hereinafter referred to as “facility”, of any city, town, or district, or in the event of the merger or consolidatio…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of the retirement law or rulings of the retirement board in accordance with the powers vested to the board, no member of the retirement system shall be allowed to purchase service credits for time while incarcerated in prison, including, but n…

Notwithstanding any other provision of the retirement laws of this state, any active member of the employees’ retirement system who was 60 years of age or greater when his or her employment commenced, and commenced employment before June 22, 1989, and was ineligible by state law …

(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (i) “Airport corporation” means the Rhode Island airport corporation, a governmental agency and public instrumentality of the state of Rhode Island. (ii) “Employee contribution accumulation” means an amount equal to the total mem…

In the event of an adverse employer initiated action by the Rhode Island airport corporation, transferred employees shall be entitled to exercise their bumping rights within the corporation to bump within other bargaining units within Council 94. An adverse employer initiated act…

Transferred employees who return to employment with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the Rhode Island airport corporation shall have their length of service at the Rhode Island airport corporation deemed to be uninterrupted active state servic…

(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (1) “Economic development corporation” means the Rhode Island economic development corporation, a governmental agency and public instrumentality of the state of Rhode Island. (2) “Employee contribution accumulation” means an amou…

Transferred employees, as defined in § 36-9-42, who return to employment with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the Rhode Island economic development corporation shall have their length of service at the Rhode Island economic development corpor…

(a) Definitions. — For the purposes of this section: (1) “Commission” means the Narragansett Bay Water Quality Management District Commission, a public corporation of the state of Rhode Island. (2) “Employee contribution accumulation” means an amount equal to the total member con…

Transferred employees, as defined in § 36-9-44, who return to employment with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the commission shall have their length of service at the commission deemed to be uninterrupted active state service for purposes of …

The transfer of state employees to commission employees shall not alter existing bargaining units, any provision of the general laws to the contrary notwithstanding.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or of any other public or general law to the contrary, the retirement board shall permit individuals who purchase service credit to do so in installments. The retirement board shall create, by rule and regulation, provisions al…

(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (1) “UST Board” means the Rhode Island Underground Storage Tank Financial Review Board, a governmental agency and a public instrumentality of the state of Rhode Island. (2) “Transfer date” means July 1, 2006. (3) “Transferred emp…

(a) The members of the general assembly and the general officers of the state, except to the extent herein provided, the judges of the supreme, superior, family, district courts, the traffic tribunal, judges of the workers’ compensation court except to the extent herein provided,…

Notwithstanding the fact that their business time may not be devoted exclusively to the services of the state, any member of the general assembly or any of the general officers of the state, may elect to participate in the benefits provided by chapters 8 — 10 of this title by fil…