--- title: Title 47, Chapter 17. Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund collection: code id: code:chapter:47-17 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/47/chapter/17 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-16.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-18.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: PEACE OFFICERS’ ANNUITY AND BENEFIT FUND title_heading: RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS section_count: 30 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17.md?full=1 --- # Title 47, Chapter 17. Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund Title 47. Retirement and Pensions 30 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 47-17-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-1.md - 47-17-20, Membership of the board; manner of appointment; filling of vacancies; reimbursement of expenses; election of officers; quorum, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-20.md - 47-17-21, Creation of the office of executive director; duties and compensation; quarterly report and accounting to the board; performance bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-21.md - 47-17-22, Powers and duties of the board generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-22.md - 47-17-23, Special account for funds; investment powers of board; gifts, grants, and bequests, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-23.md - 47-17-24, Duty of the board to keep permanent records of annuities and benefits granted; contents, preservation, and transfer of records, papers, and other data, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-24.md - 47-17-25, Duty of the state auditor to make an annual audit and report; audit upon request of the board; contents of annual report, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-25.md - 47-17-26, Methods of providing increases in maximum benefit payable under Article 6 of this chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-26.md - 47-17-27, Board authorized to employ hearing officer; powers and duties of hearing officer; appeal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-27.md - 47-17-40, Application for membership in the fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-40.md - 47-17-41, Retention of membership during absence from employment as a peace officer; credit for such period; payments due from the member for such period, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-41.md - 47-17-42, Other benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-42.md - 47-17-43, Participation of members in other retirement, annuity, or benefit systems, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-43.md - 47-17-44, Amount of dues; deadline and minimum period for payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-44.md - 47-17-60, Payments to the fund from fines and bonds collected in criminal and quasi-criminal cases; duty of collecting authority to record and remit sums collected; penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-60.md - 47-17-61, Employer contributions by Georgia Composite Medical Board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-61.md - 47-17-62, Payment of employment contributions by Board of Dentistry, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-62.md - 47-17-63, Coordination to ensure funding, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-63.md - 47-17-70, Credit for service as peace officer; credit for service in the armed forces of the United States, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-70.md - 47-17-71, Grant of creditable service for active members previously denied membership in fund because of race or ethnicity, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-71.md - 47-17-80, Retirement benefit options; payment to surviving spouse; requirements; effect of reemployment; effect of changes in retirement benefits; payment on death of member, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-80.md - 47-17-81, Eligibility for disability benefits; periodic medical examination; termination of disability benefits; application; hearings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-81.md - 47-17-82, Amount of death benefits; provisions for payment of death benefits; refund of dues paid, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-82.md - 47-17-83, Refunds of membership dues; eligibility for reinstatement; refunds of overpaid dues, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-83.md - 47-17-100, Effect of funding on provisions for benefits and annuities; coverage of claims before funds available; credit for service after February 1, 1950, but before this effective date, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-100.md - 47-17-101, Vesting of rights under this chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-101.md - 47-17-102, Reduction of benefits upon determination that available funds are insufficient; liability of members of the board for such reductions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-102.md - 47-17-103, Exemption of rights and benefits under this chapter from taxation; exemption from garnishment, attachment, or other process; assignability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-103.md - 47-17-104, Attempts to defraud the fund by false information; failure to remit sums provided for in Code Section 47-17-60, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-104.md - 47-17-105, Member’s obligation to notify board of employment change, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-17-105.md