--- title: Title 47, Chapter 3. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia collection: code id: code:chapter:47-3 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/47/chapter/3 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3.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 previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-2.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF GEORGIA title_heading: RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS section_count: 72 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3.md?full=1 --- # Title 47, Chapter 3. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia Title 47. Retirement and Pensions 72 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 47-3-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-1.md - 47-3-20, Creation and management of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; its powers and privileges; name under which business transacted, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-20.md - 47-3-21, Creation and membership of board of trustees; filling of vacancies; per diem, expenses, and oath of office; quorum; creation, membership, and duties of Teachers Retirement System Nomination Committee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-21.md - 47-3-22, Election of chairman and executive director of the board of trustees; payments by executive director of retirement system funds; surety bond required of executive director, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-22.md - 47-3-23, Designation and duties of an actuary for the board of trustees; periodic actuarial investigation and recommendations; calculation tables and regular interest rate; annual valuation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-23.md - 47-3-24, Legal adviser of the board of trustees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-24.md - 47-3-25, Medical board; designation; duties regarding medical examinations required under this chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-25.md - 47-3-26, Powers and duties of the board of trustees generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-26.md - 47-3-27, Investment powers; power to maintain cash on deposit for payments under the retirement system; personal interests in investments prohibited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-27.md - 47-3-28, Rights exempted from levy and sale, garnishment, and other process; assignability; exemptions for other retirement systems; assets and investments and their transfer or sale exempted, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-28.md - 47-3-29, Deduction of membership dues of nonprofit organizations from benefit payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-29.md - 47-3-40, Funds in which assets of the retirement system are to be held, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-40.md - 47-3-41, Annuity savings fund generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-41.md - 47-3-41.1, Payment of employee contributions by employers; mandatory nature; vesting, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-41.1.md - 47-3-42, Employer’s duty to deduct, collect, and remit employee contributions; effect of failure to deduct, collect, and remit such contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-42.md - 47-3-43, Pension accumulation fund generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-43.md - 47-3-44, Crediting to pension accumulation fund; annual transfer from pension accumulation fund to provide regular interest, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-44.md - 47-3-45, Obligations of the pension accumulation fund; permissible uses of the assets of the pension accumulation fund and of income, interest, and dividends, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-45.md - 47-3-46, Date on which contributions to the retirement system are to commence, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-46.md - 47-3-47, Purpose of the expense fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-47.md - 47-3-48, Certification to employers of normal and accrued liability contribution rates; estimates by employers of contributions for coming year; requests for appropriations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-48.md - 47-3-49, Effective date of chapter; effect of appropriation of funds on the obligation to make employee and employer contributions to the retirement system, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-49.md - 47-3-60, Eligibility; termination; leaves of absence; service credit for postgraduate study; transfer of service credit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-60.md - 47-3-61, Membership of persons who teach in both a public and private school system; payment of employer contributions for such persons, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-61.md - 47-3-62, Membership of visiting teachers and attendance officers employed in lieu of visiting teachers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-62.md - 47-3-63, Membership of full-time public school support personnel; employee and employer contributions; creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-63.md - 47-3-64, Public school teachers and employees who are covered by local retirement fund and who accept employment with private nonsectarian schools eligible for state grants, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-64.md - 47-3-65, Membership, rights, and benefits in local retirement funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-65.md - 47-3-66, Membership of teachers who are employed by independent school systems; creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-66.md - 47-3-67, Membership of teachers who are employed by certain county school systems; transfer from local retirement fund; creditable service; contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-67.md - 47-3-68, Membership of eligible university system employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-68.md - 47-3-80, Power of the board of trustees to determine which service is creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-80.md - 47-3-81, Transfer of service credits from Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia; limitations; additional contributions or adjustments required, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-81.md - 47-3-82, Reestablishment of creditable service by persons who have withdrawn their contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-82.md - 47-3-83, Service credit for active duty service in the armed forces of the United States; limitations on credit for such service if used to obtain other state or federal retirement benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-83.md - 47-3-84, Credit for service rendered by members who have breaks in membership; payments required to obtain such credit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-84.md - 47-3-84.1, Certain former members of the system who have not withdrawn contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-84.1.md - 47-3-84.2, Credit for service by members described in subparagraphs (N) and (P) of paragraph (28) of Code Section 47-3-1, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-84.2.md - 47-3-85, Credit for service by former member of Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia who withdrew contributions; credit for service before that retirement system established, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-85.md - 47-3-86, Issuance of a prior service certificate; evidentiary effect of such certificate; credit for prior service rendered by members who previously elected nonmembership, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-86.md - 47-3-87, Accumulated contributions for prior service; local retirement fund service included; determination of earnable compensation received during prior service, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-87.md - 47-3-87.1, Credit for service rendered in independent school system prior to, but not later than, June 30, 1979, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-87.1.md - 47-3-88, Credit for service rendered to a local school system by persons who became members on or after April 1, 1966; payments required in order to obtain such credit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-88.md - 47-3-89, Credit for service rendered in governmentally supported or operated schools other than public schools in Georgia; payments required to obtain credit for such service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-89.md - 47-3-90, Absence from employment because of pregnancy, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-90.md - 47-3-91, Credit for service for visiting scholars, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-91.md - 47-3-92, Absence from employment because of sick leave; creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-92.md - 47-3-93, Additional creditable service for members with at least 25 years of creditable service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-93.md - 47-3-94, Credit for service while employed by nonprofit corporation under contract with state agency; requirements, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-94.md - 47-3-95, Credit for service in private schools, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-95.md - 47-3-100, Service which is creditable toward a retirement allowance, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-100.md - 47-3-101, Eligibility and application for retirement; retirement age; duration of benefits paid to a retired member; payment to maintain Teachers Retirement System, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-101.md - 47-3-102, Early retirement after 30 years’ service; time for application; payment by member of actuarial cost, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-102.md - 47-3-120, Allowance on service retirement; minimum retirement allowance; reduced allowance; increase; computation of average compensation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-120.md - 47-3-121, Optional retirement allowances; election of such options; revocation of election; effect of divorce, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-121.md - 47-3-122, Eligibility and application for disability benefits; amount of disability benefits; reexamination of recipients; reduction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-122.md - 47-3-123, Benefits payable upon the death of a member before retirement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-123.md - 47-3-124, Application of minimum retirement allowances to persons who retired pursuant to county, municipal, or local board of education retirement or pension systems, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-124.md - 47-3-125, Application of increases in retirement benefits to persons who retired pursuant to county, municipal, or local board of education retirement or pension systems, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-125.md - 47-3-126, Postretirement benefit adjustments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-126.md - 47-3-126.1, Postretirement benefit adjustments effective July 1, 1984, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-126.1.md - 47-3-126.2, Postretirement benefit adjustments effective July 1, 1986, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-126.2.md - 47-3-126.3, Postretirement benefit adjustments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-126.3.md - 47-3-126.4, Postretirement benefit for beneficiary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-126.4.md - 47-3-127, Effect of restoration to service on retirement allowances; creditable service after restoration to service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-127.md - 47-3-127.1, Full-time employment of beneficiaries permitted under limited conditions; required employer contributions; areas of highest need, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-127.1.md - 47-3-128, Payment of accumulated contributions upon request after termination of membership; payment of taxable portion to eligible retirement plan, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-128.md - 47-3-129, Rights when retire before 60 with ten years of service or 20 years before 1954; reestablishment of credits earned before that retirement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-129.md - 47-3-130, Commencement of benefits under this retirement system; retirement after January 1, 1943, but before the commencement date, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-130.md - 47-3-140, Application of other state funded pension or retirement benefits to members and beneficiaries of this retirement system, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-140.md - 47-3-141, Attempts to defraud the retirement system by means of false statements or falsified records; adjustment of erroneous payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-141.md - 47-3-142, Rights and benefits of persons convicted of murder, voluntary manslaughter, or conspiracy to commit either upon a member or retiree, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-3-142.md