47-7-83. Service credit of member who is also member of Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund.

Code 1981, § 47-7-83, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 339, § 3; Ga. L. 1993, p. 476, § 4; Ga. L. 1996, p. 264, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 54/SB 436.

Former Code Section 47-7-83, concerning credit for prior service, was based on Ga. L. 1984, p. 990, § 4 and was repealed by Ga. L. 1987, p. 1040, § 6 effective April 14, 1987. Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘The intent of this Act is to repeal obsolete and inoperative provisions and to make certain stylistic corrections in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Nothing in this Act shall deny, abridge, increase, renew, revive, or on any way affect any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled pursuant to such title on June 30, 2010, and the board of trustees of each public retirement system is authorized and directed to provide by regulation for the continuation of any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election not otherwise covered in this Act; provided, however, that any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election shall be subject to the statutory provisions in effect on June 30, 2010.’’

The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, deleted the subsection (a) designation and deleted former subsection (b), which read: ‘‘(b)(1) Any member who first became a member of the fund on or after July 1, 1993, and who is also a member of the Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund shall not be eligible for creditable service in the fund for any period after that date with respect to which such member is also entitled to any creditable service in the Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund. ‘‘(2) Any person who was a member of the fund on July 1, 1993, and who subsequent to that date was placed on a leave of absence from the fund by action of the board of trustees and who from that date to July 1, 1996, was continuously employed as a firefighter or who was continuously enrolled as a volunteer firefighter may, upon again becoming a regular, active member of the fund, obtain creditable service for 36 months of service by paying the regular dues which would have been made for each month of service if such leave of absence had not been imposed, provided that such member otherwise satisfied the requirements for creditable service during such period. Such payment must be made to the board of trustees not later than December 31, 1996.’’