Georgia Code
Article 6 - Retirement Benefits and Death Benefits
§ 47-16-102. Death Benefits; Beneficiaries; Procedure for Designation of Beneficiary to Receive Such Benefits

In addition to the retirement benefits provided in this chapter, death benefits shall be paid to members in accordance with the following:
History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 630, § 19; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1191, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 904, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 768, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1853, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 694, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 36; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1185, § 6; Ga. L. 1985, p. 209, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 607, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 325, § 5; Ga. L. 2008, p. 132, § 1/HB 358; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 64/SB 436.
The 2008 amendment, effective July 1, 2008, substituted “$15,000.00” for “$7,000.00” twice in paragraph (2).
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, added “and” at the end of paragraph (3).
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.