--- title: Title 47, Chapter 4. Public School Employees Retirement System collection: code id: code:chapter:47-4 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/47/chapter/4 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4.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/47-3.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-5.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM title_heading: RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS section_count: 28 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4.md?full=1 --- # Title 47, Chapter 4. Public School Employees Retirement System Title 47. Retirement and Pensions 28 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 47-4-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-1.md - 47-4-2, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-2.md - 47-4-20, Creation and administration of the retirement system; corporate powers and privileges; rights in actions; name under which retirement system business shall be transacted, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-20.md - 47-4-21, Creation and administration of the retirement fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-21.md - 47-4-22, Membership of the board; expenses and per diem; quorum for the transaction of business; chairman, secretary, and treasurer of the board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-22.md - 47-4-23, Exemption of members of the board from liability for their acts, omissions, and conduct; indemnification of members of the board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-23.md - 47-4-24, Legal adviser of the board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-24.md - 47-4-25, Powers and duties of the board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-25.md - 47-4-26, Power of board over funds; special account for deposit of funds and payment of benefits and expenses; investment powers; power to employ agents, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-26.md - 47-4-27, Power of board to take, hold, and invest any gift, grant, or bequest, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-27.md - 47-4-28, Duty of board to keep records of accounts in granting benefits and records of the operations of the board; annual financial statement to the General Assembly, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-28.md - 47-4-29, Appropriations for employer contributions; creation of an expense fund; payment prior to commencement date of employer contributions and expenses of retirement system, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-29.md - 47-4-30, Plan year designated, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-30.md - 47-4-40, Eligibility; leaves of absence; termination; transfer of service credits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-40.md - 47-4-41, Membership of persons employed by local units of administration which operate local retirement systems, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-41.md - 47-4-60, Amount of contributions; manner of payment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-60.md - 47-4-61, Date for start of employee contributions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-61.md - 47-4-80, Determination of membership service; prior service credit and prior service certificate; creditable service; credit for membership in Teachers Retirement System, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-80.md - 47-4-81, Effect of appropriations on credit for prior service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-81.md - 47-4-100, Normal, early, and delayed retirement; vesting of right to a retirement benefit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-100.md - 47-4-101, Retirement benefits payable upon normal, early, or delayed retirement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-101.md - 47-4-102, Optional retirement benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-102.md - 47-4-103, Disability retirement benefits; determination of disability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-103.md - 47-4-104, Benefits payable upon the death of a member; refunds to members whose employment has been terminated, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-104.md - 47-4-105, Postretirement benefit adjustments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-105.md - 47-4-106, Return to public service of retired member, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-106.md - 47-4-120, Exemption of rights and benefits from state and local taxes and from legal process; restriction on assignability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-120.md - 47-4-121, Attempts to defraud the retirement system by means of false statements or falsified records; adjustment of erroneous payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/47-4-121.md