Title 49, Title 49: Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act

49-14-201. System membership -- Eligibility. (1) Except as provided in Section, a public safety service employee of a participating employer participating in this system is eligible for service credit in this system at the earliest of: 49-15-201 July 1, 1969, if the public safety…

49-14-202. Participation of employers -- Requirements -- Supplemental programs -- Full participation in system. (1) An employer that employs public safety service employees and is required by Sectionorto be a participating employer in the Public Employees' Contributory Retirement…

49-14-203. Exemption of certain employees from coverage. (1) A public safety service employee is excluded from coverage under this system if the employee: is serving: as the Commissioner of Public Safety; as the executive director of the Department of Corrections; or as the elect…

49-14-301. Contributions -- Two divisions -- Election by employer to pay employee contributions -- Accounting for and vesting of member contributions -- Deductions. (1) Participating employers and members shall jointly pay the certified contribution rates to the office to maintai…

49-14-401. Eligibility for service retirement -- Date of retirement -- Qualifications. (1) A member is qualified to receive an allowance from this system when: except as provided under Subsection, the member has a bona fide termination of employment before the member's retirement…

49-14-402. Calculation of retirement allowance. (1) A retiree under this system shall receive an allowance equal to: 2.5% of final average monthly salary multiplied by the number of years of service credit, limited to 20 years; plus 2% of final average monthly salary, multiplied …

49-14-403. Annual cost-of-living adjustment -- Enhanced adjustment -- Eligibility. (1) The office shall make an annual cost-of-living adjustment to: an original allowance paid under Sectionand, of this chapter if the allowance has been paid for at least one year; and 49-14-402 Pa…

49-14-501. Death of active member in Division A -- Payment of benefits. (1) If an active member of this system enrolled in Division A under Sectiondies, benefits are payable as follows: 49-14-301 If the death is classified by the office as a line-of-duty death, the surviving spou…

49-14-502. Death of active member in Division B -- Payment of benefits. (1) If an active member of this system enrolled in Division B under Sectiondies, benefits are payable as follows: 49-14-301 If the death is classified by the office as a line-of-duty death, the surviving spou…

49-14-503. Benefits payable upon death of inactive member. (1) If an inactive member who has less than 20 years of public safety service credit dies, the surviving spouse, or, if there is no surviving spouse, the member's minor children shall receive a refund of the member's memb…

49-14-504. Benefits payable upon death of retired member -- Enhanced benefit election -- Rulemaking. (1) If a retiree who retired under either Division A or Division B dies, the retiree's surviving spouse shall receive an allowance equal to 65% of the allowance that was being pai…

49-14-505. Benefits for surviving spouse under Division A or Division B. The surviving spouse, if eligible, shall receive a benefit computed under either Division A or Division B, whichever provides the larger benefit, but may not receive a benefit under both divisions if it woul…

49-14-506. Benefits payable upon death of active or inactive member without spouse or minor children. If an active or inactive member dies and at the time of death the member does not have a surviving spouse or minor children, the benefit payable to a designated beneficiary is a …

49-14-507. Surviving spouse includes certain former spouses -- Benefit calculation for former spouse. (1) The benefit calculation for a surviving spouse with a valid domestic relations order benefits on file with the office before the member's death date in accordance with Sectio…

49-14-601. Long-term disability coverage. Each participating employer shall cover its public safety employees under, or a substantially similar long-term disability program.

49-14-602. Benefit protection contract. (1) As used in this section: "Objective medical impairment" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 49-21-102 "Qualifying injury or illness" means a physical or mental objective medical impairment resulting from external force or…