Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 33 > Article 38 > Chapter 6 - Judges' Retirement System

• Americans with Disabilities Act: refers to the Americans with Disabilities Act (Indiana Code 33-38-6-1
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• board: refers to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system established by Indiana Code 33-38-6-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• employer: means the state of Indiana. See Indiana Code 33-38-6-3
• fund: refers to the Indiana judges' retirement fund established by section 12 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 33-38-6-5
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• judge: means a person who serves or has served as a regular judge or justice of one (1) or more of the following courts:

  Indiana Code 33-38-6-7

• judge pro tempore service: means service in Indiana as a full-time judge pro tempore appointed under Trial Rule 63(B) that:

  Indiana Code 33-38-6-8

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• participant: means a judge who participates in the fund. See Indiana Code 33-38-6-9
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• salary: means the total salary paid to a participant by the state and by a county or counties, determined without regard to any salary reduction agreement established under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Indiana Code 33-38-6-10
• services: means the period beginning on the first day a person first becomes a judge or, after December 31, 2010, a judge or full-time magistrate, and ending on the date under consideration and includes all intervening employment as a judge or, after December 31, 2010, a judge or full-time magistrate. See Indiana Code 33-38-6-11
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5