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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions (Chs. 1 — 25)
Chapter 6 - Georgia Legislative Retirement System (Arts. 1 — 7)

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Opinion Notes

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Credit as membership service in determining involuntary separation benefit eligibility. —

Service as a member of the General Assembly after January 1, 1954, paid for as membership service in the Legislative Retirement System and transferred to the Employees’ Retirement System is creditable as membership service for determination of eligibility for the involuntary separation benefits provided by Ga. L. 1972, p. 360, § 3 and Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 160, § 2 (see now O. C. G. A. §§ 47-2-123 and 47-2-124). 1973 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U73-17.

Research References & Practice Aids

Cross references.

Disqualifications for holding public office in Georgia, § 45-2-1.

Administrative rules and regulations.

Eligibility, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of the State Personnel Board, Flexible Benefits Program, Rule 478-2-.04.

Georgia Legislative Retirement System, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rule 513-3-1-.01 et seq.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d.

60A Am. Jur. 2d, Pensions and Retirement Funds, § 1166 et seq.

C.J.S.

67 C. J. S., Officers and Public Employees, § 311 et seq. 81A C. J. S., States, § 211 et seq.

ALR.

Reasonableness of classification, as regards beneficiaries, by statute providing for retirement fund or pension for public officers or employees, 163 A. L. R. 870.

Gift to or for employees’ pension fund as valid charitable gift or trust, 28 A. L. R.2d 428.

Unemployment compensation: eligibility of employee laid off according to employer’s mandatory retirement plan, 50 A. L. R.3d 880.

Mandatory retirement of public officer or employee based on age, 81 A. L. R.3d 811.

Hierarchy Notes:

O. C. G. A. Title 47


Universal Citation:
O.C.G.A. Title 47, Ch. 6
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