Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

(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 …

(a) The Tennessee State Employees' Association shall be eligible to be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon:(1) Passage of a resolution by the association's board of directors authorizing an actuarial study; and(2) Passage of a resolution …

(a) The Tennessee County Commissioners' Association shall be eligible to be a participating employer in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system upon:(1) Passage of a resolution by the association's board of directors authorizing and funding an actuarial study; and(2) Passage…

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, no entity shall be eligible to participate in the retirement system if the chair of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system determines, in the chair's sole discretion, that the entity's participation could have a…

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a full-time employee serving as a city judge or city attorney for a municipality on or after July 1, 2025, shall become a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system as a condition of employment, and shall participate in…

(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 …