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O.C.G.A. § 47-2-263 — Credit for certain past service as an assistant district attorney or employee of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council; payment of employee contributions; credit for service as full-time law assistant | Georgia Code
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TITLE 47 RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS

Section 2. Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, 47-2-1 through 47-2-360.

ARTICLE 8 PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR GROUPS OF EMPLOYEES

47-2-263. Credit for certain past service as an assistant district attorney or employee of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council; payment of employee contributions; credit for service as full-time law assistant.

  1. As used in this Code section, "past service as an assistant district attorney" shall include service rendered in that position pursuant to an Act authorizing assistant district attorneys in certain judicial circuits, Ga. L. 1970, p. 716, as amended, notwithstanding its subsequent repeal.
  2. Any member who is subject to Code Section 47-2-262 may receive creditable service under this chapter for past service as an assistant district attorney or as an employee of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of the State of Georgia upon payment to the board of trustees of the employee contributions which he would have paid had he been a member of the retirement system at the time such past service was rendered. The basis for employee contributions to obtain creditable service under this Code section shall be the state salary paid to the members claiming such past service at the time the service was rendered.
  3. Any member who is subject to Code Section 47-2-262 may receive up to four years of creditable service under this chapter for past service as a full-time law assistant for a judicial circuit employed pursuant to the provisions of Code Section 15-6-28 upon payment to the board of trustees of such amount as determined by the actuary as necessary to grant such benefit without creating any accrued actuarial liability as to this retirement system. The basis for employee contributions to obtain creditable service under this Code section shall be the state salary paid to the member claiming such past service at the time the service was rendered. Such payment must be made not later than July 1, 2003, or within six months of first or again becoming a member, whichever is later.

(Ga. L. 1978, p. 2173, § 23; Ga. L. 1998, p. 126, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1483, § 1.)

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