(a) Any person who becomes a member in accordance with § 8-35-101(b), who immediately prior to becoming a member has been a Class A member of the Tennessee teachers’ retirement system or the Tennessee state retirement system shall be classified in Group 1, unless such person shall elect, within ninety (90) days after July 1, 1972, or if such person is on leave of absence or otherwise not in service on July 1, 1972, within ninety (90) days after returning to service, on a form prescribed by the board of trustees, to remain covered by the benefit and contribution provisions of the superseded system of which such person is a member.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-35-106

  • Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member, together with any amount transferred to the account of the member established pursuant to chapters 34-37 of this title from the respective account of the member under one (1) or more of the superseded systems, with interest thereon, as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Attorney general: means the attorney general and reporter and any assistant thereto by whatever name known, any district attorney general and any assistant thereto by whatever name called, and any officer or full-time employee of the general assembly or any committee thereof established by statute, who is duly licensed to practice law in Tennessee, whose duty it is to provide facilities for drafting bills or to assist individual legislators in drafting bills or who renders legal advice and services to the members of the general assembly or committees thereof. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • board: means the board provided for in part 3 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • 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
  • Prior class member: means a member who, on the day preceding the date of establishment, shall have been a member of a superseded system and who elects to remain covered by the benefit and contribution provisions of the superseded system, or who fails to elect to become covered by the benefit and contribution provisions of the retirement system applicable to new employees, as the case may be, in accordance with chapter 35, part 1 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • 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
  • State judge: means any person in office as a judge of a court of record in this state, whose salary for the judge's judicial position has been paid during the period of the judge's service wholly from the treasury of the state, including the administrative director of the courts. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Superseded system: means , where applicable, the Tennessee state retirement system, the Tennessee teachers' retirement system, the Tennessee judges' retirement system, the retirement system for county paid judges of Tennessee, the attorneys general retirement system of Tennessee, the public service commissioners' retirement system, and the Tennessee retirement system for county officials, any one (1) of them, or any combination thereof. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
(b) A member making this election shall be classified as a prior class member and shall be subject to §§ 8-34-602(e), 8-34-703, 8-34-706 and 8-34-712.
(c) Any other person who becomes a member in accordance with § 8-35-101(b) shall be classified as a prior class member and shall be subject to §§ 8-34-602(e), 8-34-703, 8-34-706 and 8-34-712, unless such person shall elect, within ninety (90) days after July 1, 1972, or if such person is on leave of absence or otherwise not in service on July 1, 1972, within ninety (90) days after returning to service, on a form prescribed by the board of trustees, to become covered by the benefit and contribution provisions of this retirement system applicable to new employees.
(d) Any member making this election shall be classified in Group 1, 2 or 3 on the basis of such member’s employment category in the same manner as provided in § 8-35-105.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any state judge, county judge or attorney general who becomes a member in accordance with § 8-35-101(b) may make the election herein provided at any time after July 1, 1972, but any such member making such election shall be required to contribute to the retirement system an amount equal to the excess of the contributions which such member would have made during the period since July 1, 1972, had such member made such election on such date over the actual contributions made during such period, together with interest on such amount at the rate or rates credited to members’ accumulated contributions during such period.
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