Georgia Code
Article 6 - Retirement, Retirement Allowances, and Disability Benefits
§ 47-4-100. Normal, Early, and Delayed Retirement; Vesting of Right to a Retirement Benefit

History. Ga. L. 1969, p. 998, § 6; Ga. L. 1971, p. 917, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 1197, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 2000, p. 131, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 947, § 22/HB 202; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 50/SB 436.
The 2009 amendment, effective May 11, 2009, in subsection (e), throughout the subsection, substituted “the member” for “he” and substituted “the member’s” for “his”, and added the second and third sentences.
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, inserted “or she” or “or her” in subsections (a) and (b); substituted “subsection (c)” for “subsections (b) through (e)” in the last sentence of subsection (a); deleted former subsections (b) and (c), which read: “(b) At the request of his local unit of administration, a member may remain actively employed beyond his normal retirement date on a year-to-year basis as shall be mutually agreed upon by the member and his local unit of administration. In such cases, the member shall retire on the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the end of the last agreed upon period of employment, which date shall be the delayed retirement date of the member.
“(c) Any person who was a public school employee for a period of ten or more years at any time after July 1, 1945, and who on April 14, 1971, had attained age 60 or over shall be eligible for membership and may retire. The effective date of such individual’s retirement shall be the first day of the first month which occurs at least 30 days after receipt of his application for retirement by the board of trustees. Such effective date shall be the early retirement date of the member.”; redesignated former subsections (d) and (e) as present subsections (b) and (c), respectively; and substituted “The early” for “Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, the early” at the beginning of present subsection (b).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1988, p. 885, § 1, which would have amended subsection (a) of this Code section, was not concurrently funded as required by § 47-20-50 and, therefore, did not become law and was repealed on July 1, 1988. See the state auditor’s report at Ga. L. 1988, p. CCLXXXIV. This Act was subsequently repealed by Ga. L. 1989, p. 250, § 1, effective March 30, 1989.
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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