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The following classes of employees and officers shall not be or become members of this system:

(1)  Elected or appointed officials or employees of this state who are contributing members of any other state retirement system, or any retirement system covering employees of any political subdivisions of the state, unless by transfer in accordance with the provisions of the optional reciprocal transfer agreement provided for by this Chapter.

(2)  Public officials and state employees who receive a per diem allowance in lieu of earned compensation.

(3)  Persons employed on or after July 1, 1991, on a part-time, intermittent, temporary, emergency, or job appointment basis, except those employees who have ten or more years of creditable service in the system.

(4)  Patient or inmate help in state charitable, penal, or correctional institutions.

(5)  Students, interns, and resident physicians at any state educational institutions who are employed by any agency of the state for temporary, part-time, or intermittent work, except those on educational leave.

(6)  Independent contractors pursuing an independent business or profession pursuant to a contract for a specific price to perform a specific task.

(7)  Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 843, §2, eff. July 8, 1992.

(8)  Retirees of this system, who return to state employment within the same benefit class of the system except as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 11:416.

(9)  Judges and court officers in office on October 2, 1976, who did not timely exercise their option to become members.

(10)  Full-time career civilian employees of any federal facility which is or was on or after November 1, 1981, absorbed in whole or in part by the state of Louisiana or any of its subsidiaries, agencies, or boards, who on the day preceding the absorption are within five years of meeting the age and service requirements for retirement eligibility in the Federal Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and who are permitted by federal law to retain membership in that federal retirement fund, and if the arrangement for transfer provides that the state entity to which the federal facility is transferred shall make the legally required contributions to that federal fund.

(11)  Repealed by Acts 1992, No. 249, §1.

(12)  Repealed by Acts 2005, No. 223, §4, eff. July 1, 2005.

(13)  Unclassified, temporary seasonal income tax rush employees, and unclassified work-as-needed (WAE) employees at the Department of Revenue excluding the Louisiana Tax Commission.

(14)(a)  Employees of the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association.

(b)(i)  The New Orleans City Park Improvement Association and its board of commissioners were transferred to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and were duly authorized to exercise and perform their powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities, all pursuant to Act No. 865 of the 1982 Regular Session of the Legislature.

(ii)  This Item is an expression of contemporaneous legislative intent in that it is hereby resolved that the employees covered by Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph were not meant to be members of this system on or after the effective date of the New Orleans City Park Improvement Association’s transfer to the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, or on any date prior to that transfer.

(15)(a)  Employees of any political subdivision with a parishwide jurisdiction created, as authorized by state law, by local services agreement and intergovernmental contract for the purpose of stimulating and encouraging the development of an industrial air park for economic development in Calcasieu Parish whose employment commences on or after July 1, 2004, shall not be eligible to become members of the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System.

(b)  Any employee who, on or before June 30, 2004, has at least ten years of creditable service credit in the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System and who continues employment with such political subdivision must, no later than thirty days from July 6, 2004, make an irrevocable election to either transfer to another qualified retirement plan or remain in the system.  Any employee who elects to transfer from the system must sign a hold harmless agreement with the system releasing the system from any claims arising out of, or relating to, such employee’s withdrawal from the system, and the system shall transfer all employee contributions made by that employee to the system and any employer contributions attributable to the normal cost of that employee as established by the system’s actuary.  Such funds shall be rolled over to another qualified plan or IRA by a Trustee to Trustee transfer.  If no such transfer is available, the funds, as defined above, shall be returned to the political subdivision for distribution in a manner determined by the political subdivision.  Any member having ten or more years of creditable service in the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System on or before June 30, 2004, who elects to remain in the system shall continue to have contributions remitted at the employee and employer contribution rates as established by law until or unless the employee terminates employment with the political subdivision.  After termination of employment the member may elect to leave the account inactive until the member becomes eligible to collect his retirement benefit.  Any member may, at any time after termination of the system covered employment, request a refund of employee contributions in accordance with applicable law.

(c)  Those employees who have less than ten years of creditable service in the system on or before June 30, 2004, shall be ineligible to remain in the system and shall be removed from the system effective July 1, 2004.  These members shall be eligible to receive all employee contributions made by that employee to the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System and any employer contributions attributable to the normal cost of that employee as established by the system’s actuary.  Such funds shall be rolled over to another qualified plan or IRA by a Trustee to Trustee transfer.  If no such transfer is available, the funds, as defined above, shall be returned to the political subdivision for distribution in a manner determined by the political subdivision.

Acts 1972, No. 135, §1, eff. July 26, 1972.  Amended by Acts 1976, No. 239, §1; Acts 1978, No. 67, §2; Acts 1982, No. 190, §1; Acts 1982, No. 878, §1; Acts 1982, No. 879, §1; Acts 1985, No. 472, §1; Acts 1989, No. 69, §1, eff. June 16, 1989; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 42:553 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 249, §1; Acts 1992, No. 518, §1, eff. June 26, 1992; Acts 1992, No. 843, §2, eff. July 8, 1992; Acts 1997, No. 658, §2; Acts 1997, No. 1201, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 1999, No. 42, §1, eff. May 28, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 120, §1, eff. May 25, 2001; Acts 2004, No. 727, §1, eff. July 6, 2004; Acts 2005, No. 223, §4, eff. July 1, 2005; Acts 2010, No. 861, §4; Acts 2011, 1^st Ex. Sess., No. 15, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.