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title: O.C.G.A. § 47-20-51. Accrued retirement benefits are not created, enhanced, or diminished by this chapter.
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# O.C.G.A. § 47-20-51. Accrued retirement benefits are not created, enhanced, or diminished by this chapter.

No provision of this chapter generally and no provision of Code Section 47-20-50 in particular shall:

(1) Create or be construed to create a contractual right to a retirement benefit or a contractual right in the provisions of a retirement system law which does not exist independently of the provisions of this chapter; and

(2) Impair, alter, or diminish or be construed to impair, alter, or diminish a contractual right to a retirement benefit or a contractual right in the provisions of a retirement system law which exists independently of the provisions of this chapter.

## History

Code 1981, § 47-20-51, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1368, § 1.