Georgia Code
Article 5 - Service Creditable Toward Retirement
§ 47-4-80. Determination of Membership Service; Prior Service Credit and Prior Service Certificate; Creditable Service; Credit for Membership in Teachers Retirement System

History. Ga. L. 1969, p. 998, § 5; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1242, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1490, § 1; Ga. L. 1977, p. 311, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1888, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 638, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 86, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 49/SB 436.
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, deleted former subsection (b), which read: “Under such rules and regulations as the board shall adopt, each member who was a public school employee at any time from July 1, 1945, until the commencement date shall be entitled to file a detailed statement of all services as a public school employee rendered by him prior to the commencement date and for which he claims credit. If any person who would otherwise have qualified under this subsection is on leave in the armed forces of the United States, such person shall have six months after termination of his military service to qualify under this subsection for prior service credit. Upon verification of such statement of service, the board shall issue a prior service certificate based on the member’s statement of service and certifying to the member the period of service prior to the commencement date with which he is credited. As long as a membership continues, a prior service certificate shall be final and conclusive proof of such service for retirement purposes. A member may within one year from the date of issuance or modification of his prior service certificate request the board to modify or correct such certificate. When membership ceases, such prior service certificate shall become void.”; redesignated former subsections (c) and (d) as present subsections (b) and (c), respectively; in present subsection (b), inserted “or her” twice and inserted “or she” near the middle; deleted former subsections (e) through (i); and redesignated former subsection (j) as present subsection (d).
Cross references.
Creditable service not allowed for military service from which discharge was other than honorable, § 47-1-11 .
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.