Chapter 3. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia
Article 1. General Provisions
Article 2. Creation, Administration, and Management of the Assets of the Retirement System
- OCGA § 47-3-20 Creation and Management of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; Its Powers and Privileges; Name Under Which Business Transacted
- OCGA § 47-3-21 Creation and Membership of Board of Trustees; Filling of Vacancies; Per Diem, Expenses, and Oath of Office; Quorum; Creation, Membership, and Duties of Teachers Retirement System Nomination Committee
- OCGA § 47-3-22 Election of Chairman and Executive Director of the Board of Trustees; Payments By Executive Director of Retirement System Funds; Surety Bond Required of Executive Director
- OCGA § 47-3-23 Designation and Duties of an Actuary For the Board of Trustees; Periodic Actuarial Investigation and Recommendations; Calculation Tables and Regular Interest Rate; Annual Valuation
- OCGA § 47-3-24 Legal Adviser of the Board of Trustees
- OCGA § 47-3-25 Medical Board; Designation; Duties Regarding Medical Examinations Required Under This Chapter
- OCGA § 47-3-26 Powers and Duties of the Board of Trustees Generally
- OCGA § 47-3-27 Investment Powers; Power to Maintain Cash On Deposit For Payments Under the Retirement System; Personal Interests In Investments Prohibited
- OCGA § 47-3-28 Rights Exempted From Levy and Sale, Garnishment, and Other Process; Assignability; Exemptions For Other Retirement Systems; Assets and Investments and Their Transfer Or Sale Exempted
- OCGA § 47-3-29 Deduction of Membership Dues of Nonprofit Organizations From Benefit Payments
Article 3. Employee and Employer Contributions; Creation Offunds For Contributions, Benefits, and Administrative Expenses
- OCGA § 47-3-40 Funds In Which Assets of the Retirement System Are to Be Held
- OCGA § 47-3-41 Annuity Savings Fund Generally
- OCGA § 47-3-41.1 Payment of Employee Contributions By Employers; Mandatory Nature; Vesting
- OCGA § 47-3-42 Employer's Duty to Deduct, Collect, and Remit Employee Contributions; Effect of Failure to Deduct, Collect, and Remit Such Contributions
- OCGA § 47-3-43 Pension Accumulation Fund Generally
- OCGA § 47-3-44 Crediting to Pension Accumulation Fund; Annual Transfer From Pension Accumulation Fund to Provide Regular Interest
- OCGA § 47-3-45 Obligations of the Pension Accumulation Fund; Permissible Uses of the Assets of the Pension Accumulation Fund and of Income, Interest, and Dividends
- OCGA § 47-3-46 Date On Which Contributions to the Retirement System Are to Commence
- OCGA § 47-3-47 Purpose of the Expense Fund
- OCGA § 47-3-48 Certification to Employers of Normal and Accrued Liability Contribution Rates; Estimates By Employers of Contributions For Coming Year; Requests For Appropriations
- OCGA § 47-3-49 Effective Date of Chapter; Effect of Appropriation of Funds On the Obligation to Make Employee and Employer Contributions to the Retirement System
Article 4. Membership In the Retirement System
- OCGA § 47-3-60 Eligibility; Termination; Leaves of Absence; Service Credit For Postgraduate Study; Transfer of Service Credit
- OCGA § 47-3-61 [Repealed] Membership of Persons Who Teach In Both a Public and Private School System; Payment of Employer Contributions For Such Persons.
- OCGA § 47-3-62 Membership of Visiting Teachers and Attendance Officers Employed In Lieu of Visiting Teachers
- OCGA § 47-3-63 Membership of Full-Time Public School Support Personnel; Employee and Employer Contributions; Creditable Service
- OCGA § 47-3-64 [Repealed] Public School Teachers and Employees Who Are Covered By Local Retirement Fund and Who Accept Employment With Private Nonsectarian Schools Eligible For State Grants.
- OCGA § 47-3-65 Membership, Rights, and Benefits In Local Retirement Funds
- OCGA § 47-3-66 Membership of Teachers Who Are Employed By Independent School Systems; Creditable Service
- OCGA § 47-3-67 Membership of Teachers Who Are Employed By Certain County School Systems; Transfer From Local Retirement Fund; Creditable Service; Contributions
- OCGA § 47-3-68 Membership of Eligible University System Employees
Article 5. Service Creditable Toward Retirement Benefits
- OCGA § 47-3-80 Power of the Board of Trustees to Determine Which Service Is Creditable Service
- OCGA § 47-3-81 Transfer of Service Credits From Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Limitations; Additional Contributions Or Adjustments Required
- OCGA § 47-3-82 Reestablishment of Creditable Service By Persons Who Have Withdrawn Their Contributions
- OCGA § 47-3-83 Service Credit For Active Duty Service In the Armed Forces of the United States; Limitations On Credit For Such Service If Used to Obtain Other State Or Federal Retirement Benefits
- OCGA § 47-3-84 Credit For Service Rendered By Members Who Have Breaks In Membership; Payments Required to Obtain Such Credit
- OCGA § 47-3-84.1 Certain Former Members of the System Who Have Not Withdrawn Contributions
- OCGA § 47-3-84.2 [Repealed] Credit For Service By Members Described In Subparagraphs (N) and (P) of Paragraph (28) of Code Section 47-3-1.
- OCGA § 47-3-85 Credit For Service By Former Member of Employees' Retirement System of Georgia Who Withdrew Contributions; Credit For Service Before that Retirement System Established
- OCGA § 47-3-86 Issuance of a Prior Service Certificate; Evidentiary Effect of Such Certificate; Credit For Prior Service Rendered By Members Who Previously Elected Nonmembership
- OCGA § 47-3-87 [Repealed] Accumulated Contributions For Prior Service; Local Retirement Fund Service Included; Determination of Earnable Compensation Received During Prior Service.
- OCGA § 47-3-87.1 Credit For Service Rendered In Independent School System Prior To, But Not Later Than, June 30, 1979
- OCGA § 47-3-88 Credit For Service Rendered to a Local School System By Persons Who Became Members On Or After April 1, 1966; Payments Required In Order to Obtain Such Credit
- OCGA § 47-3-89 Credit For Service Rendered In Governmentally Supported Or Operated Schools Other Than Public Schools In Georgia; Payments Required to Obtain Credit For Such Service
- OCGA § 47-3-90 Absence From Employment Because of Pregnancy
- OCGA § 47-3-91 Credit For Service For Visiting Scholars
- OCGA § 47-3-92 Absence From Employment Because of Sick Leave; Creditable Service
- OCGA § 47-3-93 Additional Creditable Service For Members With At Least 25 Years of Creditable Service
- OCGA § 47-3-94 [Repealed] Credit For Service While Employed By Nonprofit Corporation Under Contract With State Agency; Requirements.
- OCGA § 47-3-95 Credit For Service In Private Schools
Article 6. Retirement and Eligibility For Retirement Allowances
- OCGA § 47-3-100 Service Which Is Creditable Toward a Retirement Allowance
- OCGA § 47-3-101 Eligibility and Application For Retirement; Retirement Age; Duration of Benefits Paid to a Retired Member; Payment to Maintain Teachers Retirement System
- OCGA § 47-3-102 Early Retirement After 30 Years' Service; Time For Application; Payment By Member of Actuarial Cost
Article 7. Retirement Allowances, Disability Benefits, and Spouses' Benefits
- OCGA § 47-3-120 Allowance On Service Retirement; Minimum Retirement Allowance; Reduced Allowance; Increase; Computation of Average Compensation
- OCGA § 47-3-121 Optional Retirement Allowances; Election of Such Options; Revocation of Election; Effect of Divorce
- OCGA § 47-3-122 Eligibility and Application For Disability Benefits; Amount of Disability Benefits; Reexamination of Recipients; Reduction
- OCGA § 47-3-123 Benefits Payable Upon the Death of a Member Before Retirement
- OCGA § 47-3-124 Application of Minimum Retirement Allowances to Persons Who Retired Pursuant to County, Municipal, Or Local Board of Education Retirement Or Pension Systems
- OCGA § 47-3-125 Application of Increases In Retirement Benefits to Persons Who Retired Pursuant to County, Municipal, Or Local Board of Education Retirement Or Pension Systems
- OCGA § 47-3-126 Postretirement Benefit Adjustments
- OCGA § 47-3-126.1 Postretirement Benefit Adjustments Effective July 1, 1984
- OCGA § 47-3-126.2 Postretirement Benefit Adjustments Effective July 1, 1986
- OCGA § 47-3-126.3 Postretirement Benefit Adjustments
- OCGA § 47-3-126.4 Postretirement Benefit For Beneficiary
- OCGA § 47-3-127 Effect of Restoration to Service On Retirement Allowances; Creditable Service After Restoration to Service
- OCGA § 47-3-127.1 [Repealed] Employment of Retired Teacher As Full-Time Teacher Or In Other Capacities.
- OCGA § 47-3-128 Payment of Accumulated Contributions Upon Request After Termination of Membership; Payment of Taxable Portion to Eligible Retirement Plan
- OCGA § 47-3-129 Rights When Retire Before 60 With Ten Years of Service Or 20 Years Before 1954; Reestablishment of Credits Earned Before that Retirement
- OCGA § 47-3-130 Commencement of Benefits Under This Retirement System; Retirement After January 1, 1943, But Before the Commencement Date
Article 8. Miscellaneous Provisions
- OCGA § 47-3-140 Application of Other State Funded Pension Or Retirement Benefits to Members and Beneficiaries of This Retirement System
- OCGA § 47-3-141 Attempts to Defraud the Retirement System By Means of False Statements Or Falsified Records; Adjustment of Erroneous Payments
- OCGA § 47-3-142 Rights and Benefits of Persons Convicted of Murder, Voluntary Manslaughter, Or Conspiracy to Commit Either Upon a Member Or Retiree