2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 61 - GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO OFFICES AND OFFICERS -- SOCIAL SECURITY FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM 61.525 Membership.
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61.525 Membership.
Membership in the system shall consist of the following:
(1) All persons who become employees of a participating department after the
date such department first participates in the system, except a person who did
not elect membership pursuant to KRS 61.545(3);
(2) (a) All persons who are employees of a department on the date the
department first participates in the system, either in service or on
authorized leave from service, and who elect within thirty (30) days
following the department's participation, or in the case of persons on
authorized leave, within thirty (30) days of their return to active service, to
become members and thereby agree to make contributions as provided in
KRS 61.515 to 61.705;
(b) All persons who are employees of a department who did not elect to
participate within thirty (30) days of the date the department first
participated in the system or within thirty (30) days of their return to active
service and who subsequently elect to participate the first day of a month
after the department's date of participation;
(3) All persons who are employees of any credit union whose membership was
initially limited to employees of state government and their families and which
subsequently may have been extended to local government employees and
their families;
(4) All persons who were professional staff employees of the Council on
Postsecondary Education or the Higher Education Assistance Authority and
were contributing to the system on the effective date of Executive Order 74-762
or 75-964, respectively, and file a written election of their desire to continue in
the system and all administrative and professional staff employees of the
Higher Education Assistance Authority who, on or after January 1, 1993, are
not participating in another retirement plan sponsored by the Higher Education
Assistance Authority;
(5) All persons who were professional staff employees of the Kentucky Authority
for Educational Television on and after July 1, 1974;
(6) All persons who are employees of the Teachers' Retirement System except
employees who are required to participate under the Teachers' Retirement
System under KRS 161.220(4)(d);
(7) Membership in the system shall not include those employees who are
simultaneously participating in another state-administered defined benefit plan
within Kentucky other than those administered by the Kentucky Retirement
Systems, except for employees who have ceased to contribute to one (1) of the
state-administered retirement plans as provided in KRS 21.360; and
(8) Effective January 1, 1998, employees of the Kentucky Community and
Technical College System who were previously contributing members and are
not required to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System as a member;
employees who were previously contributing members transferred from the
former Cabinet for Workforce Development as provided in KRS 164.5805(1)(a)
and who have not exercised the option to participate in the new Kentucky
Community and Technical College personnel system as provided in KRS
164.5805(1)(e); and new employees as of July 1, 1997, who are not eligible
under the Teachers' Retirement System or who are not contributing to an
optional retirement plan established by the board of regents for the Kentucky
Community and Technical College System.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 13, effective July 12, 2006. -Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 11, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 105, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1997 (1st
Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 37, effective May 30, 1997. -- Amended 1994
Ky. Acts ch. 485, sec. 8, effective July 15, 1994.
Amended 1992 Ky. Acts
ch. 240, sec. 12, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 222,
sec. 2, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 349, sec. 9,
effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 8, effective July
15, 1986. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 253, sec. 2, effective July 1, 1984. -Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 104, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended
1976 Ky. Acts ch. 321, secs. 12 and 40. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 116,
sec. 23. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 251, sec. 1. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts
ch. 165, Part II, sec. 3. -- Created 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 4.
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