O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 47-2-330 (2019)

Application of other state funded pension or retirement programs to members or beneficiaries, their surviving spouses, or dependents

✓ 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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Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, no program of pensions or retirement benefits for employees, their surviving spouses, or dependents, which program is funded wholly or partially by the state, shall apply to members or beneficiaries of this retirement system, their surviving spouses, or dependents.

History

(Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 12; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1447, § 2.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Other retirement provisions cannot vary this chapter’s provisions. - Prohibition evidenced by Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 12 (see O.C.G.A. § 47-2-330) should be read to prevent the operation of other retirement laws to vary the provisions of Ga. L. 1949, p. 138 et seq. (see O.C.G.A. Ch. 2, T. 47) as applicable to members or beneficiaries, or their widows or dependents. 1979 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 79-15.

Cessation of benefits to retired teacher not required. - Statute does not require the cessation of retirement benefits from the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia to a retiree who was subsequently employed by an agency covered under the Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia. 1979 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 79-15 (see O.C.G.A. § 47-2-330).