O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 47-1-85 (2019)

Assets of public retirement or pension system to be held in trust

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) The assets of a public retirement or pension system shall be held in trust, and it shall not be possible at the time prior to satisfaction of all liabilities to plan members and their beneficiaries under the public retirement or pension system for any part of said assets to be used for, or diverted to, purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of plan members and their designated beneficiaries and for paying reasonable expenses of the public retirement or pension system and trust fund.

(b) The board of trustees of a public retirement or pension system shall not engage in a transaction prohibited by Section 503(b) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

History

(Code 1981, § 47-1-85, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 947, § 8/HB 202.)

Annotations

Effective date. - This Code section became effective May 11, 2009.