Georgia Code
Article 5 - Retirement Benefits, Disability Benefits, and Spouses’ Benefits
§ 47-14-72. Benefits Payable in the Event of Death Before Retirement; Rights of Surviving Spouse

History. Ga. L. 1964, p. 202, § 3; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1547, § 3; Ga. L. 2008, p. 722, § 4/SB 460; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 66/SB 436.
The 2008 amendment, effective July 1, 2008, designated the existing provisions as subsection (a); in subsection (a), substituted “such clerk” for “the clerk” at the end of the last sentence; and added subsection (b).
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted “board of commissioners” for “board of trustees” in the first sentence of paragraph (b)(1) and near the beginning of paragraph (b)(2).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “The intent of this Act is to repeal obsolete and inoperative provisions and to make certain stylistic corrections in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Nothing in this Act shall deny, abridge, increase, renew, revive, or on any way affect any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled pursuant to such title on June 30, 2010, and the board of trustees of each public retirement system 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 Act; provided, however, that any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election shall be subject to the statutory provisions in effect on June 30, 2010.

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