Tennessee Code 17-529 – Termination of employment after four years but before eight years of credited service
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 17-529
- County judge: means any person who is, or when such office existed was, a judge of a general sessions court, trial justice court, county chair, county judge, probate judge, or judge of a juvenile and/or domestic relations court, and whose compensation for such judicial service is paid wholly by a county of the state, or any person who is a county attorney who receives regular monthly or quarterly compensation from a county of the state, or any county manager or county administrator who receives regular monthly or quarterly compensation from a county of the state. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Member: means any person included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 35, part 1 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Retirement: means withdrawal from membership with a retirement allowance granted under chapters 34-37 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Retirement system: means the Tennessee consolidated retirement system as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Service: means service as a general employee, a teacher, a state police officer, a wildlife officer, a firefighter, a police officer, a state judge, a county judge, an attorney general, a commissioner or a county official which is paid for by an employer, and also includes service for which a former member of the general assembly is entitled to under former §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
If a member has completed at least four (4) years but less than eight (8) years of credited service at the time of his termination of employment as judge he shall have a right to withdraw or leave his contributions in the fund. If he is not reemployed as a judge at the end of ten (10) years from his date of termination of employment as judge, he shall receive a refund of his contributions and thereafter shall have no rights under the system unless he is eligible for participation in accordance with § 17-517.
All other provisions of this title notwithstanding any person on February 1, 1970, who as of that date is a member of any retirement system of the state of Tennessee and who prior to that date had served as county judge for eight (8) years and had withdrawn his contributions from the retirement system for county paid judges shall be eligible to the amount of credited service which he had at the time of termination of membership in such system upon the repayment of his withdrawn contribution with interest at six per cent (6%) per annum from the time of his withdrawal of such contributions to the time of repayment of his withdrawn contributions.