Rules and Regulations With Regard to Credit for Service; Credit for Service in the Georgia National Guard, Georgia State Guard, and General Assembly

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  6. Rules and Regulations With Regard to Credit for Service; Credit for Service in the Georgia National Guard, Georgia State Guard, and General Assembly

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  1. The board of trustees shall establish rules and regulations setting forth the amount of service in a year which is equivalent to one year of creditable service.
  2. In no case shall more than one year of service be creditable for all service in one calendar year.
  3. One year of creditable service shall be given for each year of service in the Georgia National Guard, Georgia State Guard, or the General Assembly, provided that no credit shall be given for such service unless the individual was a member of the retirement system at that time; provided, further, that no more than five years of creditable service may be so obtained.

(Ga. L. 1949, p. 138, § 4; Ga. L. 1951, p. 394, § 5; Ga. L. 1952, p. 175, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 10/SB 436.)

The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, deleted ", provided that creditable service performed as a member of the General Assembly shall be in addition to all other service" following "year" at the end of subsection (b).

Cross references.

- Effect of transfer to state retired list for members of organized militia, § 38-2-9.

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."


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