2025 Utah Code
Title 49 - Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act
Chapter 12 - Public Employees' Contributory Retirement Act
Part 2 - Membership Eligibility
Section 201 - System membership -- Eligibility.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 49-12-201 (2025)
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Effective 3/3/2014
49-12-201. System membership -- Eligibility.
  • (1) A regular full-time employee of a participating employer is eligible for service credit in this system upon the later of:
    • (a) the date on which the participating employer began participating in this system; or
    • (b) the effective date of employment of the regular full-time employee with the participating employer.
  • (2) Beginning July 1, 1986, a person entering employment with the state and its educational institutions may not participate in this system.
  • (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (1), a person initially entering employment with a participating employer on or after July 1, 2011, who does not have service credit accrued before July 1, 2011, in a Tier I system or plan administered by the board, may not participate in this system.


Amended by Chapter 15, 2014 General Session
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