Election of Chairperson and Director; Actuarial Services; Application of State System of Personnel Administration; Payment of Costs of Personnel Administration

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Retirement and Pensions
  4. Employees' Retirement System of Georgia
  5. Creation, Administration, and Management of the Assets of the Retirement System
  6. Election of Chairperson and Director; Actuarial Services; Application of State System of Personnel Administration; Payment of Costs of Personnel Administration

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  1. The board of trustees shall elect a chairperson from its membership and shall employ a director who shall not be a trustee.
  2. The board of trustees shall engage such actuarial and other services as shall be required to transact the business of the retirement system.
  3. The director and all other employees of the board of trustees shall be governed by such rules of position, classification, appointment, promotion, demotion, dismissal, transfer, qualification, compensation, seniority, privileges, tenure, and other employment standards as may now or hereafter be established under the state system of personnel administration provided for by Chapter 20 of Title 45, including the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Personnel Board.
  4. The board of trustees shall pay its share of the administrative costs of operating the state system of personnel administration in the manner prescribed in Code Section 45-20-4.

(Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 6; Ga. L. 2009, p. 752, § 1/SB 98; Ga. L. 2012, p. 413, § 5/HB 805.)

The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, substituted "State Personnel Administration" for "State Merit System of Personnel Administration" at the end of subsection (c) and in the middle of subsection (d).

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted "chairperson" for "chairman" in subsection (a); substituted "state system of personnel administration provided for by Chapter 20 of Title 45, including the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Personnel Board" for "State Personnel Administration" in subsection (c); and substituted the present provisions of subsection (d) for the former provisions, which read: "The board of trustees shall pay its pro rata share of the administrative costs of operating the State Personnel Administration in the manner prescribed in paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of Code Section 45-20-4."

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2012, p. 413, § 1/HB 805, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "The purpose of this Act is to make conforming amendments and correct references in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement and pensions, relative to the abolition of the State Personnel Administration and the transfer of certain functions of such agency to the Department of Administrative Services as provided by a separate Act." The separate Act referred to is Ga. L. 2012, p. 446/HB 642, which became effective July 1, 2012, and which provides for the abolition of the State Personnel Administration and the transfer of functions.

Ga. L. 2012, p. 413, § 13/HB 805, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012, only if an Act abolishing the State Personnel Administration and providing for the transfer of certain functions of such agency to the Department of Administrative Services is enacted and becomes effective on that same date; otherwise, this Act shall not become effective and shall stand repealed on July 1, 2012." Ga. L. 2012, p. 446/HB 642, effective July 1, 2012, provides for the abolition of the State Personnel Administration and the transfer of functions.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Ross v. Odom, 401 F.2d 464 (5th Cir. 1968).


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