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2020 Georgia Code
Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions
Chapter 7 - Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund
Article 6 - Retirement, Retirement Allowances, Disability Benefits, and Death Benefits
§ 47-7-104. Benefits Payable to Volunteer Firefighters Erroneously Found to Be Eligible for Such Benefits
Universal Citation: GA Code § 47-7-104 (2020)
Any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding:
- Any person who served as a volunteer firefighter prior to March 3, 1955, and who began receiving retirement benefits at a later date from the fund, based on the board of trustees' belief that such person was eligible for such benefits, but whose retirement benefits were ceased or canceled by the board of trustees based upon its subsequent realization that such person was not in fact eligible for such benefits; or
- Any person who left service as a volunteer firefighter after receiving written notice from the executive director of the fund that such person was eligible for retirement benefits except for not having reached the age of 60 years, which written notice was later determined by the board to be erroneous,
shall be eligible to receive the retirement benefits under this chapter in the same manner as if such service had been rendered in a class nine or better fire department, regardless of the fact that such service was not rendered in a class nine or better fire department.
(Ga. L. 1976, p. 973, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 86, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1376, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 438, § 7/HB 1150.)
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted "executive director of the fund that such person" for "secretary-treasurer of the fund that he" near the beginning of paragraph (2) and substituted "nine" for "eight" twice in the ending undesignated paragraph.
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