O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 47-23-120 (2019)

No abridgement of rights under predecessor retirement provisions

✓ 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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This chapter shall not deny or abridge any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled under a predecessor retirement system on June 30, 1998, and the board of trustees 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 chapter. All other persons who become members shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.

History

(Code 1981, § 47-23-120, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 513, § 1.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Effect of transfer of membership. - Transfer of membership from the Superior Court Judges Retirement System to the Judicial Retirement System does not alter any right or entitlement which the person held

as a member of the former system except to the extent provision of the latter system have the effect of increasing benefit entitlement. 2000 Op. Atty. Gen. No. U2000-8.