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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 47. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS · Chapter 7. GEORGIA FIREFIGHTERS’ PENSION FUND · Article 5. SERVICE CREDITABLE TOWARD RETIREMENT

47-7-88. Impact of active duty military service upon receipt of creditable service time.

Active

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

  1. (a)

    The provisions of this Code section apply solely to any member of the fund who left active employment as a firefighter as a result of being called to active duty as a member of the Army or Air National Guard or the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, or Marine Corps Reserve and who returned to employment as a firefighter upon being released from such active duty.#

  2. (b)

    Any member of the fund shall be entitled to receive creditable service for a period of break in service due to being called to active military duty. To receive such creditable service, a member must make application to the board and pay the normal monthly dues for each month of such period of break in service not later than one year following the member’s release from active duty and return to employment.#

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

Code 1981, § 47-7-88, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 426, § 1/HB 660; Ga. L. 2024, p. 90, § 2/HB 385, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, in subsection (a), substituted “Air National Guard or the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, or Marine” for “Air Force National Guard or the Army, Air Force, Navy, or Marine”.

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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, page 128; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b2fa8236f7f1.