Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

(a) Any retired member or any member who completes one (1) year or more of current membership service in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system shall be entitled to establish retirement credit for time during which such member was employed by a political subdivision if the …

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a full-time employee assuming office as an elected purchasing agent or appointed administrator of elections for an employer on or after July 1, 2025, shall participate in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system in the same man…

(a) The Tennessee Association of County Mayors shall be eligible to be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon passage of a resolution by the association's board of directors authorizing and funding an actuarial study, and passage by the asso…

(a) The Tennessee Municipal League (TML), the Tennessee Municipal League risk management pool (TML Pool), and the Tennessee municipal bond fund (TMBF), or any or all of them, shall be eligible to be participating employers in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon:(1) …

(a) Any member employed as a teacher with a political subdivision on the date the political subdivision began participation in the retirement system shall be entitled to establish retirement credit for such periods of previous service rendered to such political subdivision if the…

(a) All teachers and employees of a public charter school that converts from a public school shall continue to participate in the same retirement program as the teachers and employees of the local board of education to which the charter school is associated. Such participation sh…

(a) Notwithstanding anything in § 8-35-201 to the contrary, a solid waste authority created by two (2) or more counties or municipalities pursuant to title 68, chapter 211, part 9, may request approval of the board of trustees to become a participating employer in the Tennessee c…

(a) The County Officials Association of Tennessee may be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon passage of a resolution by the board of directors of the association authorizing and funding an actuarial study and passage by the board of direc…

(a) The retirement system, on request of the chief governing body of a political subdivision participating in the retirement system, may administer on behalf of such political subdivision any preexisting public employee retirement plan maintained by the political subdivision. How…

(a) The Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers may be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon passage of a resolution by the board of directors of the association authorizing and funding an actuarial study and passage by the board of dir…

(1) Any member who is employed by a county which participated in the Tennessee Appalachia Education Cooperative shall be eligible to establish retirement credit for time during which such member was employed with the cooperative if the following conditions are met:(1) The member …

(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, should any department, agency, or instrumentality of a participating political subdivision become a separate local governmental entity from the political subdivision, the employees of such entity are not entitled to future member…

(a) A regional jail authority created by two (2) or more counties or municipalities pursuant to title 41, chapter 12 may request approval of the board of trustees to become a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon satisfying the following cond…

(a) The chief governing body of any employer participating in the retirement system pursuant to this part may by resolution, legally adopted and approved by a two-thirds (⅔) majority of that body, elect to discontinue the noncontributory provisions of § 8-34-206 for all employees…

(a) The chief governing body of any political subdivision participating in the retirement system may by resolution, legally adopted and approved by a two-thirds (⅔) majority of that body, elect to discontinue the mandatory retirement provisions of § 8-36-205 for all its firefight…

(a) The chief governing body of any employer participating in the retirement system pursuant to this part may by resolution, legally adopted and approved by a two-thirds (⅔) majority of that body, elect to discontinue the base benefit improvement provisions of § 8-36-124 for all …

(a) For purposes of §§ 8-35-253 – 8-35-256, “political subdivision” means any entity authorized to participate in the retirement system pursuant to this part. (b) Sections 8-35-253 – 8-35-256 are not applicable to:(1) State officials, including legislative officials elected by th…

(a) A political subdivision participating in the retirement system prior to July 1, 2012, may continue to do so under the terms and conditions in effect on July 1, 2012, without taking any additional action. (b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary and only as it applies…

(a) There is established an alternate defined benefit plan that shall offer a service retirement allowance of one and four-tenths percent (1.4%) of the member's average final compensation, multiplied by the number of years of creditable service. (b) A political subdivision may, b…

(a) (1) There is established a hybrid plan which consists of a defined benefit plan with a defined contribution plan. The defined benefit plan shall offer a service retirement allowance of one percent (1.0%) of the member's average final compensation, multiplied by the number of …

Any teacher in the service of an employer operating a local retirement fund, who is eligible and participates in membership therein, shall not be a member of the retirement system established by chapters 34-37 of this title, shall make no contributions to this retirement system, …

Any teacher employed by an employer operating a local retirement fund who is not eligible for membership in the local retirement fund shall be eligible for membership in the system established by chapters 34-37 of this title, and shall contribute to and participate in the benefit…

(1) If a teacher in the service of an employer operating a local retirement fund who is eligible for membership therein ceases to be a teacher, and if at such time such person would have been eligible for retirement under this retirement system had such person been a member, the …

Any teacher who becomes a member after July 1, 1972, shall be retired as if such teacher were a member of Group 1 of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system.

It is the duty of the employers operating local retirement funds to report to the board of trustees annually, or at such other intervals as shall be set by the board, the earnable compensation of each teacher in their employ and such other information as may be needed for establi…

(a) If a teacher who is a member of a local retirement fund dies prior to retirement under conditions which, if such teacher were a member of the retirement system, would entitle the teacher's estate or the teacher's designated beneficiary to an employer-provided lump sum payment…

(a) Should a teacher who is a member of the retirement system enter the employ of an employer operating a local retirement fund in which the teacher is eligible for membership, the teacher shall cease to contribute to the retirement system and become subject to the local retireme…

A teacher, in the service of an employer operating a local retirement fund, who becomes a member of this retirement system by entrance into the service of an employer without a local retirement fund, shall contribute to the retirement system while so employed and continue with th…

Notwithstanding any other provision of chapters 34-37 of this title, the actuary in determining the normal and accrued liability contributions and the board in setting such contributions and the amount of the appropriation to be paid by the state to the state accumulation fund sh…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary in chapters 34-37 of this title, if a local retirement fund does not allow a member retirement credit for all years creditable under this retirement system, the state annuity shall be computed on the basis of all years of c…

Any employer, as herein defined, which operates a local retirement system may adopt any of the provisions of chapters 34-37 of this title in effect on July 1, 1972, and as thereafter amended as modified, as part of the provisions and regulations of such local retirement system.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever the managing board of a local retirement fund includes municipal employees who are not elected by the people and who are not members of the board of education, nor employed or appointed by the board of education, the managing board shall pa…

Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, the board of trustees shall pay the entire amount of the state annuity directly to the retired members of a local retirement fund whenever the managing board of the local retirement fund is not permitted by municipal charter or…

Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary, optional retirement allowances may be selected in accordance with chapter 36, part 6 of this title. Until the first payment on account of any benefit becomes normally due, any member of any local retirement system may elect to…

Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary in chapters 34-37 of this title, any member of a local retirement fund whose retirement becomes effective on or after July 1, 1967, and to whom or on whose account a state service or disability retirement allowance or minimum be…

Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary, whenever a local board of education which is a part of a consolidated county-city form of government which was established prior to February 18, 1970, administers a local teacher retirement fund, the retirement payments due on…

(a) Local Board of Education Administering Plan. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary in chapters 34-37 of this title, any teacher who is a member of any local teacher retirement plan shall be eligible to transfer membership into the Tennessee consolidated ret…

(a) Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, a local board of education shall not be entitled to establish a local teacher retirement fund. (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this section shall not affect the rights, benefits and privileges of teachers presently participati…

The Tennessee Sheriffs' Association shall be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon passage of a resolution by the association's board of directors authorizing such participation and accepting the liability incurred as a result of the partic…

(a) The employees of the association shall make the same contributions, participate in the same manner, and shall be eligible for the same benefits as employees of local governments participating in the retirement system. (b) Such employees shall be entitled to credit for such pr…

(a) In case of withdrawal of the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association as a participating employer, the benefits payable on account of service rendered as an employee of the association shall be determined in accordance with § 8-35-211. (b) The retirement system shall not be liable for…

It is the legislative intent that the state shall realize no increased cost in the retirement plan as a result of this part.