As used in this chapter, the term:
History. Ga. L. 1969, p. 998, § 2; Ga. L. 1976, p. 577, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 575, § 11; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1742, § 5; Ga. L. 1989, p. 52, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 535, § 16/HB 460; Ga. L. 2008, p. 562, § 1/SB 434; Ga. L. 2009, p. 947, § 20/HB 202; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 48/SB 436.
The 2008 amendment, effective July 1, 2008, substituted “Technical College System of Georgia” for “Department of Technical and Adult Education” in the first sentence of paragraph (20).
The 2009 amendment, effective May 11, 2009, substituted “the sum of all of the amounts deducted from the earnable compensation of a member and paid by the member to establish or reestablish credit for service, which amounts are credited to the member’s individual account in this retirement system” for “an employee’s contributions” near the middle of paragraph (1).
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted “Reserved.” for the former provisions of paragraph (8), which read: “ ‘Delayed retirement date’ means the date of retirement under subsection (b) of Code Section 47-4-100.”; and substituted “subsection (b)” for “subsection (d)” in the middle of paragraph (9).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2005, p. 535, § 16, which amended this Code section, purported to amend Code Section 47-4-1 but actually amended Code Section 47-4-2.
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.