Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

(a) The board of trustees shall require from any employer of members of the retirement system such information as the board may deem necessary including, but not limited to, name, address, title, social security number, compensation, duties, date of birth and length of service of…

(a) Any person who becomes a member in accordance with § 8-35-101(b), who immediately prior to becoming a member has been a Class A member of the Tennessee teachers' retirement system or the Tennessee state retirement system shall be classified in Group 1, unless such person shal…

(a) Any state agency, department, board, commission, institution, or political subdivision, covered on July 1, 1972, by chapters 34-37 of this title, or who may thereafter elect to bring its employees into the retirement system as general employees, shall have the option of estab…

A teacher participating in a local retirement fund shall not be eligible for membership in the retirement system.

(a) Except as provided in § 8-35-123(c), any person who assumes office as a state judge, a county judge, a county official, a commissioner, a county chair, a member of the general assembly, or any district attorney general and any assistant thereto by whatever name called, on or …

(a) Except as provided in § 8-35-123(c), any person who becomes a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2025, shall become a member of the retirement system as a condition of taking office. (b) Any person who became a member of the general assembly before July 1, 202…

(a) The general assembly finds and declares that the public policy of this state is that no public official or employee shall have multiple memberships in any retirement program or programs financed from public funds, whereby such official or employee obtains or accrues pensions …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary and except as provided in subsection (b), any current or former member of the retirement system or of a superseded system who accepts, or is elected to, a position on or after July 1, 2018, for which membership in the retirement s…

(a) From and after March 28, 1976, members and employees of boards, commissions, committees, councils, and the like, by whatever name known, whose duties are performed intermittently or periodically for the purpose of fixing rates, issuance of permits or licenses, regulating trad…

The classification and membership rights of any member or prior class member of the retirement system shall continue in force without interruption and remain applicable as long as such member remains in a position for which such classification originated.

(a) Effective July 1, 2002, all present and future employees of any self-sustaining board, commission or agency created by the supreme court of Tennessee shall participate in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system as a condition of employment and any preexisting employee pe…

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a full-time employee assuming office as a county official or county judge, as defined in § 8-34-101, on or after July 1, 2025, shall become a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system as a condition of taking office, a…

Effective July 1, 1978, all former, present and future employees of the University of Tennessee shall be considered to be general employees of the state or teachers employed in state-supported institutions of higher education depending on their position with the university. Their…

(a) The state shall pay the estimated increased pension liability resulting from a benefit improvement affecting general employees or employees at institutions of higher education participating in the retirement system by amortizing the unfunded accrued liability over a period of…

(a) (1) Any person who on June 30, 1983, is a state employee engaged in the administration or operation of a state-owned educational television station and who on or before July 1, 1986, without interruption of such state service becomes an employee of an educational television s…

Any person who is defined as a student in accordance with chapter 34, part 1 of this title and any person engaged in advanced training in medicine or dentistry as an intern or resident shall not be eligible for membership in the retirement system. In any case of doubt, the board …

(a) Blind employees of workshops who are unclassified members of state service immediately preceding the implementation date of a contract under § 71-4-608 are eligible for membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system under the same conditions that apply to state em…

(a) Any person participating in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system prior to July 1, 2025, pursuant to §§ 8-35-101, 8-35-103, 8-35-115, 8-35-116, and 8-35-226, or as a state judge, county judge, county official, commissioner, county chair or attorney general, and who ele…

(a) (1) No employee or elected or appointed official of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall be entitled to receive retirement benefits from the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, any superseded retirement system or any other public pension system, if such …

(a) (1) Any member who is separated from service for reasons other than retirement or death may elect to forfeit all contributory and noncontributory service established by such member under chapters 34-37 of this title for the purpose of establishing such service in another stat…

(a) The chief legislative body of any political subdivision of the state, not participating under §§ 8-35-212 – 8-35-214, may, by resolution legally adopted and approved by the chief legislative body, authorize all its employees in all of its departments or instrumentalities to b…

(a) Whenever any retirement law is passed by the general assembly which does not affirmatively state that it has application to participating political subdivisions, and it is subsequently determined by the retirement division that such act or provisions thereof mandate increased…

(a) (1) (A) Membership in the retirement system for employees of employers that are admitted as provided in this part shall be:(i) Optional for all employees in the service of the employer on the date the approval is given except as provided in subdivision (a)(1)(B); and(ii) Mand…

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any present employee or former employee, employed at any time within three (3) years prior to the participation date of the employer, by an employer admitted as provided in §§ 8-35-201, 8-35-202, 8-35-215 and 8-35-216 shall be eligibl…

The chief fiscal officer of the employer and the heads of its departments shall submit to the board such information and shall cause to be performed in respect to the employees of the employer such duties as shall be prescribed by the board in order to carry out chapters 34-37 of…

(a) (1) The actuary of the retirement system shall compute the rates of contribution payable by employers on behalf of their employees who become members under this part by an actuarial valuation in a manner similar to that provided by chapter 37, part 3 of this title; provided, …

(a) Any political subdivision which elects to authorize all its employees to become members of the retirement system after June 30, 1978, shall have the option to exclude from their retirement benefit plan cost-of-living benefits as provided by § 8-36-701 on account of retired em…

(a) The chief legislative body of any political subdivision employer participating in the retirement system may by resolution legally adopted and approved by two-thirds (⅔) majority of that body elect to discontinue the cost-of-living benefit provisions for all employees employed…

(a) The Tennessee Education Association, the Tennessee School Boards Association and the Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association shall be participating employers in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, and shall be liable for the costs incurred as a result of th…

(a) Notwithstanding anything in this part to the contrary, the retirement system shall not be liable for the payment of any retirement allowances or other benefits on account of the employees or beneficiaries of any employer participating under this part for which reserves have n…

(a) Except for the provisions of this section and the provisions for voluntary withdrawal contained in § 8-35-218, the agreement of any employer participating under this chapter to contribute on account of its employees shall be irrevocable, but should an employer for any reason …

Any political subdivision on June 30, 1972, which shall have been participating in the Tennessee state retirement system under former chapter 36 of this title, with respect to its employees, shall participate in this retirement system as of July 1, 1972, and shall be subject to t…

(a) The Tennessee County Services Association shall be a participating employer as of July 1, 1972, with respect to its employees and shall likewise be subject to all of the provisions of this part applicable to employers electing to participate subsequent to July 1, 1972. (b) (1…

The employees of any employer participating in the retirement system pursuant to §§ 8-35-212 and 8-35-213 shall be credited as of July 1, 1972, with all service which shall have been creditable to them as of June 30, 1972, under the Tennessee state retirement system.

As of July 1, 1999, all assets credited to the state accumulation fund on account of a regional library board's participation in the retirement system shall be transferred to the state. Upon such transfer, the state shall be liable for the payment of any retirement allowances or …

(a) Any educational cooperative established as a separate legal entity under § 49-2-1304 may, by resolution duly adopted by its governing body, elect to authorize its employees to participate in the retirement system, subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the board of tr…

(a) (1) Any political subdivision electing to participate in the retirement system on or after July 1, 1983, in accordance with this part, shall participate in the provisions of the plan as they exist for state employees on the date of participation; except that prior service cre…

(a) Upon giving at least one (1) year's advance notice in writing to the board of trustees, a political subdivision may terminate, effective July 1 following the end of the notice period, its participation in the retirement system, under the following terms and conditions:(1) The…

(a) Notwithstanding §§ 8-35-103 and 8-35-217 to the contrary, any current or future employer which participates in the retirement system pursuant to this part shall have the option to exclude its part-time employees from membership in the retirement system by passage of a resolut…

(a) The Tennessee Historical Society shall be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, upon passage of a resolution by the society's board of directors authorizing such participation and accepting the liability incurred as a result of the particip…

(a) Any entity engaged in the administration of the programs authorized under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. § 3101 et seq.), on behalf of a local workforce investment area designated under [former] 29 U.S.C. § 2831 [repealed] shall be eligible to…

(a) Any member who is employed by a political subdivision that is a participating employer in the retirement system shall be eligible to establish retirement credit for time during which the member was employed by a joint venture between that political subdivision and one (1) or …

(a) The Douglas-Cherokee economic authority shall be eligible to be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon:(1) Passage of a resolution by the authority's board of directors authorizing an actuarial study; and(2) Passage of a resolution by th…

(a) The upper east Tennessee human development agency shall be eligible to be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon:(1) Passage of a resolution by the agency's board of directors authorizing an actuarial study; and(2) Passage of a resolutio…

(a) Appointed or elected school board members of special school districts, and of city or county boards, commissions, committees, councils, and the like, by whatever name known, who are elected by popular vote, and whose duties are performed intermittently or periodically for the…

(a) Any present employee of a political subdivision participating in the retirement system effective August 1, 1973, under this part shall be eligible for retirement credit for service rendered to such employer under the following conditions:(1) Such employee was employed by the …