2021 Georgia Code
Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions
Chapter 2 - Employees' Retirement System of Georgia
Article 5 - Service Creditable Toward Retirement Benefits
- § 47-2-90. Rules and Regulations With Regard to Credit for Service; Credit for Service in the Georgia National Guard, Georgia State Guard, and General Assembly
- § 47-2-91. Credit for Accumulations of Forfeited Annual and Sick Leave
- § 47-2-92. Reestablishment of Service Credit After Withdrawal of Accumulated Contributions From This Retirement System or the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; Payments Required to Obtain Credit
- § 47-2-93. Credit for Service Rendered After December 31, 1953, by Persons Who Were Not Members at the Time; Payments Required to Obtain Credit
- § 47-2-94. Service Credit Provided for Persons Whose Membership Was Terminated for Failure to Render at Least One Year of Service in a Five-Year Period
- § 47-2-95. Credit for Service During World War I, World War Ii, or the Korean Conflict; Credit for Service in the Georgia National Guard or the Georgia State Guard
- § 47-2-96. Prior Service Credit; Payments Required to Obtain Credit
- § 47-2-96.1. Creditable Service for Temporary Full-Time Employment by Legislative Branch
- § 47-2-96.2. Creditable Service for Uncredited Full-Time Service With Executive Branch
- § 47-2-97. Applicability of Creditable Service Under Code Section 47-2-93 or Subsection (B) of Code Section 47-2-96 Toward Involuntary Separation Benefits; Requirement as to Full-Time Employment for Credit
- § 47-2-98. Creditable Service for Member Who Was Officer or Employee of Georgia Housing and Finance Authority
- § 47-2-99. Applicability of Creditable Service Under Code Section 47-2-334 and Chapter 22 of This Title; Obtaining Service and Application for Creditable Service
- § 47-2-100. Additional Creditable Service
- § 47-2-101. Creditable Service for Prior Service as Member of Georgia Defined Contribution Plan
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Editor's notes.
- In light of the similarity of the provisions, decisions under Ga. L. 1948, p. 138, § 4, as amended, are included in the annotations for this article.
When retirement benefits become vested.- Retirement rights become vested in the claimant immediately upon any participation in active service while the civil service provisions are in effect, irrespective of whether at the time in question the claimant has completed sufficient length of service to be eligible for retirement as a matter of right; such rights cannot be constitutionally divested by any subsequent Act of the General Assembly. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-5 (decided under Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 4).
Retirement credit authorized to county tax officials for forfeited leave, and the rules and regulations of the board of trustees adopted thereunder must be followed as to the manner and method in which this forfeited leave is documented and certified as to any tax officials and employees not covered by a county merit system or other established leave practice or policy. 1979 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 79-69 (decided under Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 4).
Forfeited leave may be used as creditable service for computing beneficiary's death allowances in the event of the death in service of a constitutional officer, or any other eligible member of the retirement system, so long as all other requirements for death allowances are met. 1979 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 79-34 (decided under Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 4).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 316 et seq. 81A C.J.S., States, § 216.
ALR.
- Statute or ordinance providing pension for public officers or employees as available to one who had left service before the passage of the statute, 142 A.L.R. 938.
Disciplinary suspension of public employee as affecting computation of length of service for retirement or pension purposes, 6 A.L.R.2d 506.
Constitutionality, construction, and application of statute or ordinance providing for reduction of pension or retirement benefit of public officer or employee because of independent income, 7 A.L.R.2d 692.
