Chapter 3. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia
Article 1. General Provisions
Article 2. Creation, Administration, and Management of the Assets of the Retirement System
- § 47-3-20. Creation and Management of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; Its Powers and Privileges; Name Under Which Business Transacted
- § 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
- § 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
- § 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
- § 47-3-24. Legal Advisor of the Board of Trustees
- § 47-3-25. Medical Board; Designation; Duties Regarding Medical Examinations Required Under This Chapter
- § 47-3-26. Powers and Duties of the Board of Trustees Generally
- § 47-3-27. Investment Powers; Power to Maintain Cash On Deposit For Payments Under the Retirement System; Personal Interests In Investments Prohibited
- § 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
- § 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
- § 47-3-40. Funds In Which Assets of the Retirement System Are to Be Held
- § 47-3-41. Annuity Savings Fund Generally
- § 47-3-41.1. Payment of Employee Contributions By Employers
- § 47-3-42. Employer's Duty to Deduct, Collect, and Remit Employee Contributions; Effect of Failure to Deduct, Collect, and Remit Such Contributions
- § 47-3-43. Pension Accumulation Fund Generally
- § 47-3-44. Crediting to Pension Accumulation Fund; Annual Transfer From Pension Accumulation Fund to Provide Regular Interest
- § 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
- § 47-3-46. Date On Which Contributions to the Retirement System Are to Commence
- § 47-3-47. Purpose of the Expense Fund
- § 47-3-48. Certification to Employers of Normal and Accrued Liability Contribution Rates; Estimates By Employers of Contributions For Coming Year; Requests For Appropriations
- § 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
- § 47-3-60. Eligibility; Termination; Leaves of Absence; Service Credit For Postgraduate Study; Transfer of Service Credit
- § 47-3-61. Membership of Persons Who Teach In Both a Public and Private School System; Payment of Employer Contributions For Such Persons
- § 47-3-62. Membership of Visiting Teachers and Attendance Officers Employed In Lieu of Visiting Teachers
- § 47-3-63. Membership of Full-Time Public School Lunchroom, Maintenance, Or Warehouse Managers Or Supervisors Or Transportation Managers Or Supervisors; Employee and Employer Contributions; Creditable Service
- § 47-3-64. Public School Teachers and Employees Who Are Covered By Local Retirement Fund and Who Accept Employment With Private Nonsectarian Schools Eligible For State Grants
- § 47-3-65. Membership, Rights, and Benefits In Local Retirement Funds; Issuance of Prior Service Certificates to Such Persons; Dissolution of Local Retirement Fund; Election of Additional Contributions and Benefits For Persons In Service to Employers Who Operate Local Retirement Funds
- § 47-3-66. Membership of Teachers Who Are Employed By Independent School Systems; Creditable Service; Employee and Employer Contributions; Effect of Failure to Pay Required Contributions
- § 47-3-67. Membership of Teachers Who Are Employed By Certain County School Systems; Transfer From Local Retirement Fund; Creditable Service; Contributions; Failure to Pay Contributions
- § 47-3-68. Membership of Eligible University System Employees
Article 5. Service Creditable Toward Retirement Benefits
- § 47-3-80. Power of the Board of Trustees to Determine Which Service Is Creditable Service
- § 47-3-81. Transfer of Service Credits From Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Limitations; Additional Contributions Or Adjustments Required
- § 47-3-82. Reestablishment of Creditable Service By Persons Who Have Withdrawn Their Contributions
- § 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
- § 47-3-84. Credit For Service Rendered By Members Who Have Breaks In Membership; Payments Required to Obtain Such Credit
- § 47-3-84.1. Certain Former Members of the System Who Have Not Withdrawn Contributions
- § 47-3-84.2. Credit For Service By Members Described In Subparagraphs (N) and (P) of Paragraph (28) of Code Section 47-3-1
- § 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
- § 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
- § 47-3-87. Accumulated Contributions For Prior Service; Local Retirement Fund Service Included; Determination of Earnable Compensation Received During Prior Service
- § 47-3-87.1. Credit For Service Rendered In Independent School System Prior To, But Not Later Than, June 30, 1979
- § 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
- § 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
- § 47-3-90. Absence From Employment Because of Pregnancy
- § 47-3-91. Credit For Service For Visiting Scholars
- § 47-3-92. Absence From Employment Because of Sick Leave; Creditable Service
- § 47-3-93. [Additional Creditable Service]
Article 6. Retirement and Eligibility For Retirement Allowances
- § 47-3-100. Service Which Is Creditable Toward a Retirement Allowance
- § 47-3-101. Eligibility and Application For Retirement; Duration of Benefits Paid to a Retired Member; Payment to Maintain Teachers Retirement System
- § 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
- § 47-3-120. Allowance On Service Retirement; Minimum Retirement Allowance; Reduced Allowance; Increase; Computation of Average Compensation
- § 47-3-121. Optional Retirement Allowances; Election of Such Options; Revocation of Election
- § 47-3-122. Eligibility and Application For Disability Benefits; Amount of Disability Benefits; Reexamination of Recipients; Reduction
- § 47-3-123. Benefits Payable Upon the Death of a Member Before Retirement
- § 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
- § 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
- § 47-3-126. Postretirement Benefit Adjustments
- § 47-3-126.1. Postretirement Benefit Adjustments Effective July 1, 1984
- § 47-3-126.2. Postretirement Benefit Adjustments Effective July 1, 1986
- § 47-3-126.3. Postretirement Benefit Adjustments
- § 47-3-127. Effect of Restoration to Service On Retirement Allowances; Creditable Service After Restoration to Service
- § 47-3-127.1. [Definitions]
- § 47-3-128. Payment of Accumulated Contributions Upon Request After Termination of Membership; Payment of Taxable Portion to Eligible Retirement Plan
- § 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
- § 47-3-130. Commencement of Benefits Under This Retirement System; Retirement After January 1, 1943, But Before the Commencement Date
Article 8. Miscellaneous Provisions
- § 47-3-140. Application of Other State Funded Pension Or Retirement Benefits to Members and Beneficiaries of This Retirement System
- § 47-3-141. Attempts to Defraud the Retirement System By Means of False Statements Or Falsified Records; Adjustment of Erroneous Payments
- § 47-3-142. Rights and Benefits of Persons Convicted of Murder, Voluntary Manslaughter, Or Conspiracy to Commit Either Upon a Member Or Retiree