Any such increase may be uniform or may vary in accordance with the time of retirement, length of service, age, nature of the retirement, or such other factors as the board of commissioners shall determine; provided, however, that no such increase shall be made to become effective within six months of the effective date of any increase in the maximum retirement benefit granted by the General Assembly through amendment of this Code section;
History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 630, § 18; Ga. L. 1972, p. 705, § 4; Ga. L. 1973, p. 1414, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1194, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 332, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1977, p. 1291, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1690, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1979, p. 994, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1853, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1889, § 2; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1185, § 5; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1348, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 604, § 2; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1566, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1990, p. 553, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 130, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 608, § 2; Ga. L. 1994, p. 92, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 325, § 4; Ga. L. 1995, p. 789, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 375, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 155, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1167, § 2; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, §§ 64, 66/SB 436; Ga. L. 2012, p. 675, § 1/HB 337.
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted “board of commissioners” for “board of trustees” in the last sentence of paragraph (a)(1), at the end of subparagraph (a)(1)(A), and in the last undesignated paragraph of subsection (a); and substituted “member and,” for “member and” near the end of subsection (b).
The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, designated the existing provisions of subsection (b) as paragraph (b)(1); and added 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.”
Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 67, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “In the event of an irreconcilable conflict between a provision of Sections 62 through 64 of this Act and a provision of another Act enacted at the 2010 regular session of the General Assembly, the provision of such other Act shall control over this Act to the extent of the conflict.