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title: Title 47, Chapter 6. Georgia Legislative Retirement System
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date: 2025
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heading: GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT SYSTEM
title_heading: RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
section_count: 22
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# Title 47, Chapter 6. Georgia Legislative Retirement System

Title 47. Retirement and Pensions

22 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 47-6-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-1.md
- 47-6-20, Creation and administration of the retirement system; commencement of operations; corporate powers and privileges; name in which retirement system to transact business, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-20.md
- 47-6-21, Creation of the office of executive secretary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-21.md
- 47-6-22, Powers and duties of the board of trustees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-22.md
- 47-6-23, Investment powers of board; members’ and employees’ dealings with funds; vouchers for payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-23.md
- 47-6-24, Members’ account; accumulation account; crediting of interest and dividends, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-24.md
- 47-6-25, Plan year designated, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-25.md
- 47-6-40, Qualifications for membership; irrevocable election for certain members of General Assembly; membership of persons who cease to become members before age 60; termination of membership; application for additional creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-40.md
- 47-6-41, Transition of membership from Georgia Legislative Retirement System to Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia; current beneficiaries; state contributions; rules and regulations, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-41.md
- 47-6-42, State contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-42.md
- 47-6-60, Employee contributions to the retirement system; payment of employee contributions on behalf of the member; additional contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-60.md
- 47-6-70, Creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-70.md
- 47-6-70.1, Prior service credit for military service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-70.1.md
- 47-6-70.2, Reestablishment of creditable service by current members who ceased being members of General Assembly and who withdrew retirement contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-70.2.md
- 47-6-80, Eligibility and application for a retirement allowance; early retirement; monthly retirement allowance; amount of retirement allowance; compliance with federal tax laws; increases in retirement allowance, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-80.md
- 47-6-81, Optional retirement allowances, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-81.md
- 47-6-82, Manner in which retirement allowances to be paid; termination of payments upon death, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-82.md
- 47-6-83, Payments made upon the death of a member, upon death of a beneficiary who has not elected an optional retirement allowance, or upon death of a member before retirement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-83.md
- 47-6-84, Termination of retirement allowance upon return to service; retirement benefits for retired members returning to service in the General Assembly; board of trustees to be notified within 30 days if public employer employs retired plan member, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-84.md
- 47-6-85, Refund of accumulated contributions upon termination of membership, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-85.md
- 47-6-100, Exemption of rights and benefits from taxation; exemption from legal process; assignability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-100.md
- 47-6-101, Attempts to defraud the retirement system by means of false statements or falsified records; adjustment of erroneous payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-6-101.md