Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1112

  • Board of Trustees: means the board provided to administer the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
  • Employee: means any person legally occupying a position as a school bus driver who actually renders a service by driving a school bus during the full time of his employment, a school janitor, a school custodian, a school maintenance employee, school bus aide, monitor or attendant, or other regular school employee who actually works on a school bus helping with the transportation of school children, and who is a legal employee of a parish or city school board of the state of Louisiana, and shall include the employees of this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
  • Member: means any school employee, as defined in Paragraph (13) of this Section, as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
  • Prior service: means service rendered prior to July 1, 1947, for which credit is allowable under Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
  • Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002

All persons who become employees after December 31, 1946, may become members of the retirement system provided that within one year from the date of their employment they file with the board of trustees on a form prescribed by it a notice of their election to be covered in the membership of the system, together with their enrollment as a member, executed on a form prescribed by the board.  Any such employee who fails to file notice of his election and his enrollment may become a member of the system at any future date, but he shall not be entitled to any prior service credit.  Any employee who has failed to file this notice prior to July 28, 1948, but who does so within sixty days thereafter shall be privileged to become a member and as such shall be entitled to prior service credit.  

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 643, §1; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 17:892 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.  

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