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Title 47. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS · Chapter 7. GEORGIA FIREFIGHTERS’ PENSION FUND · Article 2. ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE ASSETS OF THE FUND

47-7-20. Membership of the board; manner of election; compensation and expenses.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    To carry out this chapter, there is created the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Firefighters’ Pension Fund. The board shall consist of five members as follows:#

    1. (1)

      The Governor or the Governor’s designee;#

    2. (2)

      The Commissioner of Insurance or the Commissioner of Insur-ance’s designee;#

    3. (3)

      Two active members of the fund appointed by the Governor; and#

    4. (4)

      One retired member of the fund appointed by the Governor.#

  2. (b)

    The first members appointed by the Governor pursuant to paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be appointed to take office on July 1, 1984. One of the persons appointed pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of this Code section and the person appointed pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall each be appointed for an initial term of two years. The remaining person appointed pursuant to paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be appointed for an initial term of four years. Thereafter, successors shall be appointed by the Governor to take office upon the expiration of the respective terms of office for terms of four years. All such members shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. In the event of a vacancy during the term of office of any such member, the Governor shall appoint a qualified person to fill such vacancy for the unexpired term.#

  3. (c)

    The Georgia State Firefighters’ Association shall be authorized to submit to the Governor the names of nominees for each position on the board appointed by the Governor pursuant to subsection (b) of this Code section. The Governor, in making such appointments, may consider the nominees submitted by said association, but all such appointments shall be at the sole discretion of the Governor, and the Governor shall not be required to appoint members of the board from such nominees.#

  4. (d)

    Members of the board shall serve without pay but all members of the board shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses that they may incur through service on the board.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1955, p. 339, § 2; Ga. L. 1984, p. 828, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 477, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 332, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1376, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 898, § 6/HB 266.

Amendments

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted “retired member” for “retired beneficiary” in paragraph (a)(4).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t47-(v35)-pdf.pdf, Volume V35, 2010 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 119 to 120; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b2fa8236f7f1.