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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 9 - Retirement Systems
Chapter 8 - RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR JUDGES AND SOLICITORS
Section 9-8-40 - Membership in System; cessation of membership.
SC Code § 9-8-40 (2012) What's This?
(1) All persons who are judges or solicitors on July 1, 1979, and who have not attained age seventy-two shall become members of the system as of that date. All other persons become members of the system on taking office as judge, solicitor, or circuit public defender before attaining age seventy-two.
(2) If a member of the system ceases to be a judge, solicitor, or circuit public defender for reasons other than death or retirement, he then ceases to be a member of the system, whether or not he withdraws his accumulated contributions.
HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 150 Section 4; 2007 Act No. 108, Section 8.D, eff June 21, 2007.
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