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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1111

  • 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
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • 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

A.  The membership of this retirement system shall be composed of all persons who are employees on December 31, 1946, except those hereinafter specifically excluded, provided that before July 1, 1947, any such employee files with the board of trustees on a form prescribed by such board a notice of election to be covered in the membership of the system and also files enrollment as a member on a form prescribed by the board of trustees.  Except as hereafter provided, after June 30, 1948, no person who has attained the age of fifty years shall be eligible to become a member.  

B.  Any person who was not employed on December 31, 1946, by a parish or city school board, but who prior to that time has been so employed, may become a member of the system and shall be entitled to receive credit for such prior service upon entering the system, provided he applies for membership on or before July 31, 1955.  

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 703, §1; Acts 1972, No. 643, §1; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 17:891 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.