Florida Statute 122.61 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title X
PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS

Chapter 122
STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM

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F.S. 122.061

122.061 Hospital districts and county hospital corporations; officers and employees included.—

(1) Boards of hospital districts and county hospital corporations may elect to bring employees of such districts or corporations under the provisions of the retirement law. Once this election is made it may not be revoked and all present and future employees shall be compulsory members of the State and County Officers and Employees’ Retirement System.

(2) All boards of hospital districts and county hospital corporations who now have officers and employees participating in the State and County Officers and Employees’ System will continue to have such coverage as provided by this chapter. The presumption being that such boards have elected to come under the law.

(3) The rights of any officer or employee who is a member of the State and County Officers and Employees’ Retirement System or who is receiving benefits under the provisions of this chapter, by virtue of Attorney General’s opinion and Comptroller’s rulings rendered prior to the declaratory decree of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida, March 1957, shall not be impaired or reduced.

History.—ss. 1-4, ch. 57-47; s. 1, ch. 67-612.

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Cases Citing Statute 122.061

Total Results: 2

Citrus Memorial Health Foundation, Inc. v. Citrus County Hospital Board

108 So. 3d 675, 2013 WL 535769, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 2262

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 14, 2013 | Docket: 60229198

Published

a public entity the Board was precluded by section 122.061, Florida Statutes, and Article VII, section

Waterman Memorial Hospital Ass'n v. Division of Retirement, Department of Administration

424 So. 2d 57, 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 21766

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 10, 1982 | Docket: 64594363

Published

a hospital district within the meaning of Section 122.061, Florida Statutes (1965),1 (during all of which