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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1617

  • 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.
  • Annuity: shall mean payments for life derived from the "accumulated contributions" of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Employee: shall mean any district attorney of the state of Louisiana, or any assistant district attorney in any parish of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
  • Employer: shall mean any parish in the state of Louisiana; the state of Louisiana, or the police jury or any other governing body of a parish or political corporation or subdivision of the state of Louisiana which employs and pays persons as district attorneys or assistant district attorneys. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
  • Member: shall include any employee, as defined in Paragraph (10) of this Section, included in the membership of this system as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
  • Retirement: shall mean withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
  • Service: shall mean service rendered as an employee as described in Paragraph (10) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581

A.  Any person who retired from this system and was reemployed in a capacity as a district attorney or assistant district attorney but was denied membership in this system based on provisions of law regarding age requirements shall have the option of establishing credit for the full-time service in that capacity by paying into the system the employer and employee amount plus interest that would have been withheld and paid into the system for such service based on the member‘s gross salary for the period of such reemployment.

B.  The system shall accept as the member’s payment of amounts payable by the member  under this Section any assets held in an individual retirement account or annuity or a system qualified under 26 U.S.C. § 401(a) or 26 U.S.C. § 403(a), a governmental deferred compensation arrangement subject to 26 U.S.C. § 457(g) or a tax sheltered annuity or other arrangement under 26 U.S.C. § 403(b).

Acts 1995, No. 830, §1; Acts 2012, No. 523, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.