Title 36, Title 36 Officers and Employees

(a) An employee who is a member of the retirement system may be a member of the retirement system of any union provided the union retirement plan is covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) [29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.] and is tax qualified pursuant to …

(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…

(a)(1) Prior to July 1, 2012, each member of the retirement system shall contribute an amount equal to eight and three-quarters percent (8.75%) of his or her compensation as his or her share of the cost of annuities, benefits, and allowances. Effective July 1, 2012, each member o…

(a) Each department, pursuant to the provisions of § 414(h)(2) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 414(h)(2), shall pick up and pay the contributions that would be payable by the employees as members under §§ 36-10-1, 8-3-16, 8-8-10.1, 8-8.2-7, 28-30-18.1, and…

(a)(1)(i) For employees eligible to retire on or before September 30, 2009, upon retirement from service under § 36-10-9, a member whose membership commenced before July 1, 2005, and who has completed at least ten (10) years of contributory service on or before July 1, 2005, shal…

(a) Every person who shall have served as a member of the senate or of the house of representatives as provided in § 36-10-9.1 shall be entitled to receive, upon retirement from service as a member of the general assembly and not otherwise regularly employed by the state of Rhode…

(a) Upon retirement for service under § 36-10-9.2, a member with twenty-five (25) or more years of service as of June 30, 2012, shall receive a retirement allowance of an amount determined under (1) below. All other members shall receive a retirement allowance of an amount equal …

(a) In lieu of the lifetime service retirement allowance, a vested member who has completed at least ten (10) years of contributory service on or before July 1, 2005 who retires in accordance with §§ 16-16-12, 36-10-9 and 36-10-9.2 may choose an optional form of retirement benefi…

(a) If subsequent to January 1, 1991, a member sustains a loss of salary due to a deferral of salary or a reduction in salary in order to avoid shutdowns, layoffs, or because of a retrenchment of state or local finances, then in calculating the service retirement allowance of the…

The right of a service retirement allowance under the provisions of this chapter shall vest in a member who shall withdraw from service prior to his or her attainment of the minimum age of retirement specified in §§ 36-10-9 — 36-10-9.3 who shall not have received a refund, provid…

(a) Application for ordinary disability may be made by a member, his or her department head, or a person acting in the member’s behalf, while in active service or on leave of absence for illness, provided that the member has had five (5) or more years of total service of which at…

Upon retirement for ordinary disability under § 36-10-12, a member shall receive a benefit equal to the rate prescribed for service retirement under § 36-10-10, subject to the provisions of § 36-10-31; provided, however, that no member retiring with less than ten (10) years of to…

(a) Medical examination of an active member for accidental disability and investigation of all statements and certificates by him or her or in his or her behalf in connection therewith shall be made upon the application of the head of the department in which the member is employe…

(a) For disability applications submitted on or before September 30, 2009, upon retirement for accidental disability under § 36-10-14, a member shall receive a benefit which shall be equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent (662/3%) of his or her annual compensation at the time …

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of chapters 3 and 4 of this title, and/or any existing regulations of the director of administration or the state retirement board, the state retirement board shall accord to a civil service employee, so entitled under present existing regula…

Once each year the retirement board may, and upon his or her application shall, require any disability beneficiary under the minimum age of service retirement to undergo a medical examination. The examination to be made at the place of residence of the beneficiary or other place …

(a) A beneficiary, or, if the beneficiary be an incompetent, then the beneficiary’s spouse or domestic partner or if there is no spouse or domestic partner, a guardian of the beneficiary’s estate, may elect to receive the benefit in a retirement allowance, payable throughout life…

The optional provisions of § 36-10-18 shall be applicable only to a member applying for a service retirement allowance, an accidental disability retirement allowance, and an ordinary disability retirement allowance or any inactive member applying for retirement under vested right…

(a) Upon the death of a member having: (1) At least ten (10) years of membership service on or before June 30, 2012; or (2) For active contributing members on or after July 1, 2012, at least five (5) years of membership service, the spouse or domestic partner of the member shall …