Georgia § 47-2-262 - Membership in retirement system of assistant district attorneys and employees of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council; notice of election to become a member; contributions.

§ 47-2-262. Membership in retirement system of assistant district attorneys and employees of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council; notice of election to become a member; contributions.

As used in this Code section, the term: "Assistant district attorneys" means assistant district attorneys who are compensated from state funds pursuant to Code Section 15-18-14. "Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia" means the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia created by Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 15. Each assistant district attorney and each employee of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia, hereinafter in this Code section collectively referred to as "employee" or "employees," who becomes an employee on or after July 1, 1979, shall become a member of the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia as a condition of his or her employment, unless he or she is eligible for membership in another publicly supported retirement or pension system or fund which provides retirement benefits based wholly or partially on compensation of such employee paid from state funds. An employee who is eligible for membership in any such other publicly supported retirement or pension system or fund may elect to become a member of the retirement system in lieu of membership in such other publicly supported retirement or pension system or fund by notifying the board of trustees of such election within 90 days after becoming employed with the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia. Any such employee who fails to notify the board of trustees within such time shall not at any time thereafter be eligible for membership in the retirement system. The state salary paid to employees who become members of the retirement system shall be the basis for employee and employer contributions for such employees. All employer contributions required by this chapter for such members shall be paid from funds appropriated or otherwise available. The Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia shall deduct from the state salaries payable to such members the employee contributions required by this chapter. (Ga. L. 1978, p. 2173, § 22; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 47; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 19; Ga. L. 1994, p. 92, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 126, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 586, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 753, § 2/SB 109; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 30/SB 436.) The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, in subsection (b), in the fourth sentence, inserted "or her" and inserted "or she", in the eighth sentence, substituted "available" for "made available for the operation of the superior courts" at the end, and, in the last sentence, substituted "Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia" for "commissioner of administrative services". The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, deleted "employed on June 30, 1979, may elect to become a member of the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia. Any such employee electing to become a member of the retirement system shall so notify the board of trustees not later than October 1, 1979. Any such employee who failed to notify the board of trustees by that date shall not at any time thereafter be eligible for membership in the retirement system. Any person" following "'employees,"' in the middle of the present first sentence of subsection (b); and deleted former subsection (c), which read: "Any person who was required to become a member of this retirement system by operation of subsection (b) of this Code section but who failed to do so at the time he or she was so required because of an administrative error may receive creditable service for all or a portion of such period of prior service by paying to the board of trustees an amount which would warrant the grant of creditable service without creating any additional actuarial accrued liability as to the retirement system. Such payment may include a transfer of funds from a money purchase pension plan maintained by the employee's employer prior to July 1, 2004, which shall be credited to the employee's annuity account established by the retirement system. The employee's employer is authorized to supplement such amount." Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "The intent of this Act is to repeal obsolete and inoperative provisions and to make certain stylistic corrections in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Nothing in this Act shall deny, abridge, increase, renew, revive, or on any way affect any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled pursuant to such title on June 30, 2010, and the board of trustees of each public retirement system is authorized and directed to provide by regulation for the continuation of any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election not otherwise covered in this Act; provided, however, that any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election shall be subject to the statutory provisions in effect on June 30, 2010."