--- title: Title 47, Chapter 1. General Provisions collection: code id: code:chapter:47-1 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/47/chapter/1 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1.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 next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-2.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: GENERAL PROVISIONS title_heading: RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS section_count: 43 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1.md?full=1 --- # Title 47, Chapter 1. General Provisions Title 47. Retirement and Pensions 43 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 47-1-1, Intent of codification and enactment of this title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-1.md - 47-1-2, Pooling of funds by retirement systems for investment purposes; accounting practices with regard to pooled funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-2.md - 47-1-3, Power of a local retirement system to hire an actuary; payment of the administrative costs of a local retirement system; periodic actuarial investigations; annual financial report, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-3.md - 47-1-4, Report of the state auditor on the condition of local retirement systems, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-4.md - 47-1-5, Duty of governing authorities to make and file actuarial investigations and to file financial reports; withholding of state funds for failure to meet this duty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-5.md - 47-1-6, Effect of World War II armed forces service on retirement benefits; payments to retirement systems for such periods, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-6.md - 47-1-7, Powers of retirement, pension, or emeritus systems or funds with regard to agents employed to act as custodians of assets or investment advisers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-7.md - 47-1-8, Restrictions on ability of members of the General Assembly to receive pension plan credit for service in the General Assembly, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-8.md - 47-1-9, Crediting of time toward Georgia Legislative Retirement System; restriction on crediting; options for members; refund of contributions; construction of conflicting provisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-9.md - 47-1-10, Adoption, amendment, or repeal of rules by boards of trustees of state retirement or pension systems; procedure; immediate adoption; filing of rules with Secretary of State; adoption of rules and regulations appropriate or necessary to maintain qualified status, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-10.md - 47-1-11, Creditable service not allowed for military service from which discharge was other than honorable, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-11.md - 47-1-12, Investment and reinvestment of assets of local retirement system; valuation and limitation on investments; duties of state auditor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-12.md - 47-1-13, Maximum compensation used in computing employee and employer contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-13.md - 47-1-13.1, Annual compensation limits in determining benefits or contributions due, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-13.1.md - 47-1-14, ‘‘Retirement system’’ defined; records exempt from public inspection, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-14.md - 47-1-15, Circumstances when survivors benefits are paid to secondary beneficiary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-15.md - 47-1-16, Public retirement systems prohibited from having insurable interest in members; prohibition on expending or obligating funds for purchase of life insurance on members; exception, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-16.md - 47-1-17, Required education for public retirement system trustees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-17.md - 47-1-20, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-20.md - 47-1-21, Termination of membership in public retirement system for committing public employment related crimes; applicability to employees on July 1, 1985; determination of benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-21.md - 47-1-22, Reduction and forfeiture of rights and benefits by public employees after July 1, 1985, for committing public employment related crimes; reimbursement of contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-22.md - 47-1-22.1, Rights and benefits of employees convicted of drug related crimes, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-22.1.md - 47-1-22.2, Notification to public retirement system of conviction for public employment related crime, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-22.2.md - 47-1-23, Rights of public employee charged with committing public employment related crime, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-23.md - 47-1-24, Benefits denied to beneficiary who murders or commits voluntary manslaughter of member of public retirement system, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-24.md - 47-1-25, Determination of economic impact of public employment related crime, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-25.md - 47-1-30, Authority to increase benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-30.md - 47-1-31, Discretionary postretirement benefit increases subject to reduction by subsequent legislation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-31.md - 47-1-40, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-40.md - 47-1-41, Employees authorized to receive creditable service for period of temporary disability; application for creditable service; payment of employee contributions during period, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-41.md - 47-1-42, Use of other provisions of article not precluded, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-42.md - 47-1-43, Applicability of article; proof of temporary disability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-43.md - 47-1-60, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-60.md - 47-1-61, Eligibility of veteran to establish creditable service; period of qualified service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-61.md - 47-1-62, Procedure for establishment of creditable service; computations; employer contributions; system or fund unable to provide creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-62.md - 47-1-80, Distributions to conform to regulations issued under the Internal Revenue Code, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-80.md - 47-1-80.1, Provisions applicable to all public retirement or pension systems; maximum annuity paid; limitation on death and disability benefits; application of federal provisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-80.1.md - 47-1-81, Election to have a portion of an eligible rollover distribution paid to an eligible retirement plan under federal law; limitations; application to nonspouse designated beneficiary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-81.md - 47-1-82, Maximum annual additions and maximum benefit payable limited to that allowed by federal law, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-82.md - 47-1-83, Vesting of member’s accrued benefit as of date of termination or partial termination of public retirement or pension system, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-83.md - 47-1-84, Modifications by board of trustees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-84.md - 47-1-85, Assets of public retirement or pension system to be held in trust, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-85.md - 47-1-86, Adopted plan document or rules and regulations govern, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-1-86.md