Chapter 135 Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; Health Insurance Program for Children
Article 1 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees.
- § 135-1 Definitions
The following words and phrases as used in this Chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:...
- § 135-1.1 Licensing and examining boards
(a) Any State board or agency charged with the duty of administering any law relating to the examination and licensing of persons to practice a...
- § 135-2 Name and date of establishment
A Retirement System is hereby established and placed under the management of the Board of Trustees for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other...
- § 135-3 Membership
The membership of this Retirement System shall be composed as follows: (1) All persons who shall become teachers or State employees after the date as...
- § 135-3.1, 135-3.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1961, c. 516, s. 9
- § 135-4 Creditable service
(a) Under such rules and regulations as the Board of Trustees shall adopt, each member who was a teacher or State employee at any time...
- § 135-4.1 Reciprocity of creditable service with other State-administered retirement systems
(a) Only for the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits accruing under this Article, creditable service standing to the credit of a member of the...
- § 135-4A Recodified as G.S. 135-4.1 by Session Laws 2006-264, s. 14, effective August 27, 2006
- § 135-5 Benefits
(a) Service Retirement Benefits. (1) Any member may retire upon written application to the Board of Trustees setting forth at what time, as of the...
- § 135-5.1 Optional retirement program for The University of North Carolina
(a) An Optional Retirement Program provided for in this section is authorized and established and shall be implemented by the Board of Governors of The...
- § 135-5.2 Chapel Hill utilities and telephone employees
Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, all persons employed by Chapel Hill Telephone Company or University Service Plants at the time the Chapel Hill...
- § 135-5.3 Optional participation for charter schools operated by private nonprofit corporations
(a) The board of directors of each charter school operated by a private nonprofit corporation shall elect whether to become a participating employer in the...
- § 135-5.4 Optional retirement program for State-funded community colleges
(a) An Optional Retirement Program provided for in this section is authorized and established and shall be implemented by the North Carolina Community Colleges System,...
- § 135-6 Administration
(a) Administration by Board of Trustees; Corporate Name; Rights and Powers; Tax Exemption. The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the Retirement...
- § 135-7 Management of funds
(a) Vested in Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall be the trustee of the several funds created by this Chapter as provided in...
- § 135-7.1 through 135-7.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 467, ss. 16, 17
- § 135-8 Method of financing
(a) Funds to Which Assets of Retirement System Credited. All of the assets of the Retirement System shall be credited according to the purpose for...
- § 135-9 Exemption from garnishment, attachment, etc
Except for the applications of the provisions of G.S. 110‑136, and G.S. 110‑136.3 et seq., and in connection with a court‑ordered equitable distribution under G.S....
- § 135-10 Protection against fraud
Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this Retirement System...
- § 135-10.1 Failure to respond
If a member fails to respond in any way within 90 days after preliminary option figures and Form 6‑E, Election of Benefits, are mailed, the...
- § 135-11 Application of other pension laws
Subject to the provisions of Article 2, Chapter 135 of the General Statutes, Volume 17, as amended, no other provisions of law in any other...
- § 135-12 Obligation of maintaining reserves and paying benefits
The maintenance of annuity reserves and pension reserves as provided for and regular interest creditable to the various funds as provided in G.S. 135‑8, and...
- § 135-13 Certain laws not repealed; suspension of payments and compulsory retirement
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to repeal or invalidate any of the provisions of Chapter 483 of the Public‑Local Laws of 1919, or...
- § 135-14 Pensions of certain former teachers and State employees
On and after July 1, 1983, special pensions and allowances of certain former teachers and State employees shall be paid out of the Pension Accumulation...
- § 135-14.1 Certain school superintendents and assistant superintendents
Any person who has been a superintendent or assistant superintendent in the public schools of North Carolina for a total of 20 years or more...
- § 135-15 Repealed by Session Laws 1949, c. 1056, s. 9
- § 135-16 Employees transferred to North Carolina State Employment Service by act of Congress
Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Chapter, any employee of the United States Employment Service who was transferred to and became employed by the State...
- § 135-16.1 Blind or visually impaired employees
(a) On July 1, 1971, all blind or visually impaired employees employed by the Department of Health and Human Services shall be enrolled as members...
- § 135-17 Facility of payment
In the event of the death of a member or beneficiary not survived by a person designated to receive any return of accumulated contributions or...
- § 135-18 Repealed by Session Laws 1969, c. 1223, s. 14
- § 135-18.1 Transfer of credits from the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System
(a) Any person who is a member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System of North Carolina on July 1, 1951, and who was...
- § 135-18.2 Repealed by Session Laws 1959, c. 538, s. 3
- § 135-18.3 Conditions under which amendments void
If for any reason the federal‑state agreement provided in Article 2 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes, Volume 17, as amended, is not entered...
- § 135-18.4 Reservation of power to change
The General Assembly reserves the right at any time and from time to time, and if deemed necessary or appropriate by said General Assembly in...
- § 135-18.5 Provision for emergency expenses of integration of System
For the purpose of meeting the expenses involved in administering the provisions of this Article to June 30, 1959, and in holding the referendum described...
- § 135-18.6 Termination or partial termination; discontinuance of contributions
In the event of the termination or partial termination of the Retirement System or in the event of complete discontinuance of contributions under the Retirement...
- § 135-18.7 Internal Revenue Code compliance
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, compensation for any calendar year after 1988 in which employee or employer contributions are made...
- § 135-18.8 Deduction for payments to certain employees' or retirees' associations allowed
Any beneficiary who is a member of a domiciled employees' or retirees' association that has at least 2,000 members, the majority of whom are active...
- § 135-18.9 Transfer of members from the Legislative Retirement System or the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System
(a) The accumulated contributions, creditable service, and reserves, if any, of a member of the Legislative Retirement System, as provided for in Article 1A of...
- § 135-18.10 Forfeiture of retirement benefits for certain felonies
(a) Except as provided in G.S. 135‑4(gg), the Board of Trustees shall not pay any retirement benefits or allowances, except for a return of member...
Article 2 - Coverage of Governmental Employees under Title II of the Social Security Act.
- § 135-19 Declaration of policy
In order to extend to employees of the State and its political subdivisions and of the instrumentalities of either, and to the dependents and survivors...
- § 135-20 Definitions
For the purposes of this Article: (1) The term "employee" includes an officer of the State, or one of its political subdivisions or instrumentalities. (2)...
- § 135-21 Federal-State agreement; interstate instrumentalities
(a) The State agency, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized to enter on behalf of the State into an agreement with the...
- § 135-22 Contributions by State employees
(a) Every employee of the State whose services are covered by an agreement entered into under G.S. 135‑21 shall be required to pay for the...
- § 135-23 Plans for coverage of employees of political subdivisions
(a) Each political subdivision of the State is hereby authorized to submit for approval by the State agency a plan for extending the benefits of...
- § 135-24 Contribution fund
(a) There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the contribution fund. Such fund shall consist of and there shall be deposited...
- § 135-25 Rules and regulations
The State agency shall make and publish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Article, as it finds necessary or appropriate...
- § 135-26 Studies and reports
The State agency shall make studies concerning the problem of old age and survivors insurance protection for employees of the State and local governments and...
- § 135-27 Transfers from State to certain association service
(a) Any member whose service as a teacher or State employee is terminated because of acceptance of a position prior to July 1, 1983, with...
- § 135-28 Transfer of members to employment covered by the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System
(a) Any member whose services as a teacher or State employee are terminated for any reason other than retirement or death, who, while his account...
- § 135-28.1 Transfer of members to employment covered by the Uniform Judicial Retirement System
(a) Any member whose service as a teacher or State employee is terminated other than by retirement or death and, who, while still a member...
- § 135-29 Referenda and certification
(a) With respect to employees of the State and any other individuals covered by Article 1 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes, Volume 17,...
- § 135-30 State employees members of Law-Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Retirement Fund
The federal‑state agreement provided in G.S. 135‑21 shall be revised and extended to provide that, effective on, or retroactively as of, such date as may...
- § 135-31 Split referendums
The provisions of this Article shall be construed as authorization for the State or political subdivisions or instrumentalities of government which have not heretofore secured...
Article 3 - Other Teacher, Employee Benefits; Child Health Benefits.
- § 135-32 through 135-33.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1981 (Regular Session, 1982), c. 1398, s. 1
- § 135-34 Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 738, s. 29(l)
- § 135-35 Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 859, s. 13.17; 1981 (Regular Session, 1982), c. 1398, s. 1
- § 135-36 Repealed by Session Laws 1981 (Regular Session, 1982), c. 1398, s. 1
- § 135-37 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Confidentiality
(a) Any information as herein described in this section which is in the possession of the Executive Administrator and the Board of Trustees of the...
- § 135-38 Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits
(a) The Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits shall consist of 12 members as follows: (1) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate or...
- § 135-38.1 Committee on Actuarial Valuation of Retired Employees' Health Benefits
(a) There is established the Committee on Actuarial Valuation of Retired Employees' Health Benefits. The Committee shall be responsible for collecting data and reviewing assumptions...
- § 135-39 Board of Trustees established
(a) (Effective until July 1, 2008) There is hereby established the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan. (a)...
- § 135-39.1 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Auditing of the Plan
The Board of Trustees and the Executive Administrator of the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees and the Claims Processor shall be subject...
- § 135-39.2 Officers, quorum, meetings
(a) The Board of Trustees shall elect from its own membership such officers as it sees fit. (b) Six members of the Board of Trustees...
- § 135-39.3 Oversight team
(a) The Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits may use employees of the Legislative Services Office and may employ contractual services as approved by...
- § 135-39.3A Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 857, s. 4
- § 135-39.4 Repealed by Session Laws 1985 (Regular Session, 1986), c. 1020, s. 2
- § 135-39.4A Executive Administrator
(a) The Plan shall have an Executive Administrator and a Deputy Executive Administrator. The Executive Administrator and the Deputy Executive Administrator positions are exempt from...
- § 135-39.5 Powers and duties of the Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees
The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan shall have the following powers and duties: (1)...
- § 135-39.5A Termination
The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees may terminate the contract with the Claims Processor as provided in the request for proposal. (1981 (Reg. Sess.,...
- § 135-39.5B (Repealed effective July 1, 2008) Optional plans
(a) The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees may, after consultation with the Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits, provide for optional prepaid hospital...
- § 135-39.6 Special funds created
(a) There are hereby established two special funds, to be known as the Public Employee Health Benefit Fund and the Health Benefit Reserve Fund for...
- § 135-39.6A Premiums set
(a) (Effective until July 1, 2008) The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees shall, from time to time, establish premium rates for the Teachers' and...
- § 135-39.7 Administrative review
(a) If, after exhaustion of internal appeal handling as outlined in the contract with the Claims Processor any person is aggrieved, the Claims Processor shall...
- § 135-39.8 Rules and regulations
The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees may issue rules and regulations to implement Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Article. The Executive...
- § 135-39.9 Reports to the General Assembly
(a) The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees shall report to the General Assembly at such times and in such forms as shall be provided...
- § 135-39.10 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Meaning of "Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees"
Whenever in this Article the words "Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees" appear, they mean that the Executive Administrator shall have the power, duty, right,...
- § 135-39.11 Contract disputes
A dispute involving the performance, terms, or conditions of a contract between the Plan and an entity under contract with the Plan is not a...
- § 135-40 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Undertaking
(a) The State of North Carolina undertakes to make available a State Health Plan (hereinafter called the "Plan") exclusively for the benefit of its employees,...
- § 135-40.1 (Effective until July 1, 2008) General definitions
As used in Parts 2 and 3 of this Article, the following terms have the meaning specified as follows: (1) Chemical Dependency. The term "chemical...
- § 135-40.2 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Eligibility
(a) The following persons are eligible for coverage under the Plan, on a noncontributory basis, subject to the provisions of G.S. 135‑40.3: (1) All permanent...
- § 135-40.3 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Effective dates of coverage
(a) Employees and Retired Employees. (1) Employees and retired employees covered under the Predecessor Plan will continue to be covered, subject to the terms hereof....
- § 135-40.3A Optional participation for charter schools operated by private nonprofit corporations
(a) The board of directors of each charter school operated by a private nonprofit corporation shall elect whether to become a participating employer in the...
- § 135-40.4 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Benefits in general
- § 135-40.5 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Benefits not subject to deductible or coinsurance
(a) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 192, s. 5. (b) Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 427, s. 20. (c) Preadmission Testing. The Plan...
- § 135-40.6 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Benefits subject to deductible and coinsurance (comprehensive benefits)
- § 135-40.6A Prior approval procedures
(a) The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees shall establish procedures to require prior medical approvals for the following services: (1) Home Health Care Agency...
- § 135-40.7 (Effective until July 1, 2008) General limitations and exclusions
(a) (Expires June 30, 2009 See note.) The Plan and optional plans or programs shall not limit the number of visits for covered services for...
- § 135-40.7A Repealed by Session Laws 1997-512, s. 15
- § 135-40.7B (Effective until July 1, 2008) Special provisions for chemical dependency and mental health benefits
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, benefits for the treatment of mental illness and chemical dependency are covered by the Plan and shall...
- § 135-40.8 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Out-of-pocket expenditures
(a) For the balance of any fiscal year after each eligible employee, retired employee, or dependent satisfies the cash deductible, the Plan pays eighty percent...
- § 135-40.9 (Effective until July 1, 2008) Maximum benefits
- § 135-40.10 Persons eligible for Medicare
(a) Benefits payable for covered expenses under this Plan in G.S. 135‑40.5 through G.S. 135‑40.9 will be reduced by any benefits payable for the same...
- § 135-40.11 Cessation of coverage
(a) Coverage under this Plan of an employee and his or her surviving spouse or eligible dependent children or of a retired employee and his...
- § 135-40.12 Conversion
(a) Upon a cessation of group coverage under the Plan and/or eligibility for group coverage under the Plan, an employee or dependent shall be entitled...
- § 135-40.13 Coordination of benefits
(a) Benefits Subject to This Provision. All of the benefits provided under this Comprehensive Major Medical Plan. (b) Definitions. (1) "Plan" means any Plan providing...
- § 135-40.13A Liability of third person; right of subrogation; right of first recovery
(a) The Plan shall have the right of subrogation upon all of the Plan member's right to recover from a liable third party for payment...
- § 135-40.14 Right to amend
The General Assembly reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Parts 2 and 3 of this Article. (1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1398, s....
- § 135-41 Undertaking
(a) The State of North Carolina undertakes to make available an optional program of long‑term care benefits for the benefit of its qualified employees, retired...
- § 135-41.1 Long-term care benefits
Long‑term care benefits provided by this Part are subject to elimination periods, coinsurance provisions, and other limitations separate and apart from those provided for in...
- § 135-41.2 Conversion
Upon cessation of group coverage under this Part, an employee, retired employee, or dependent shall be entitled to a conversion to a nongroup plan of...
- § 135-41.3 Right to alter, amend, or repeal
The General Assembly reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Part. (1997‑468, s. 7.)
- § 135-42 Undertaking
(a) (Effective until July 1, 2008) The State of North Carolina undertakes to make available a health insurance program for children (hereinafter called the "Program")...
- § 135-42.1 Right to alter, amend, or repeal
The General Assembly reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Part. (1998‑1, s. 4(a).)
- § 135-43 through 135-49 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.
- § 135-50 Short title and purpose
(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act." (b) The purpose of this Article is to improve...
- § 135-51 Scope
(a) This Article provides consolidated retirement benefits for all justices and judges, district attorneys, and solicitors who are serving on January 1, 1974, and who...
- § 135-52 Application of Article 1; administration
(a) References in Article 1 of this Chapter to the provisions of "this Chapter" shall not necessarily apply to this Article. However, except as otherwise...
- § 135-53 Definitions
The following words and phrases as used in this Article, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:...
- § 135-54 Name and date of establishment
A Retirement System is hereby established and placed under the management of the Board of Trustees for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other...
- § 135-55 Membership
(a) The membership of the Retirement System shall consist of: (1) All judges and district attorneys in office on January 1, 1974; (2) All persons...
- § 135-56 Creditable service
(a) Subject to such rules and regulations as the Board of Trustees shall adopt with regard to the verification of a judge's prior service, the...
- § 135-56.01 Reciprocity of creditable service with other State-administered retirement systems
(a) Only for the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits accruing under this Article, creditable service standing to the credit of a member of the...
- § 135-56.1 Repealed by Session Laws 1983 (Regular Session, 1984), c. 1031, s. 16
- § 135-56.2 Creditable service for other employment
Any member may purchase creditable service for service as a State teacher or employee, as defined under G.S. 135‑1(10) and (25), and for service as...
- § 135-56.3 Repayments and Purchases
(a) Purchase of Service Credits Through Rollover Contributions From Certain Other Plans. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, and without regard to any limitations...
- § 135-57 Service retirement
(a) Any member on or after January 1, 1974, who has attained his fiftieth birthday and five years of membership service may retire upon written...
- § 135-58 Service retirement benefits
(a) Any member who retires under the provisions of subsection (a) or subsection (c) of G.S. 135‑57 before July 1, 1990, after he either has...
- § 135-59 Disability retirement
(a) Upon application by or on behalf of the member, any member in service who has completed five or more years of creditable service and...
- § 135-60 Disability retirement benefits
(a) Upon retirement for disability in accordance with G.S. 135‑59, a member shall receive a disability retirement allowance computed and payable as provided for service...
- § 135-61 Election of optional allowance
Any member who retires under the provisions of this Article shall have the right to elect to have his allowance payable under any one of...
- § 135-62 Return of accumulated contributions
(a) Should a member cease membership service otherwise than by death or retirement under the provisions of this Article, he shall, upon submission of an...
- § 135-63 Benefits on death before retirement
(a) Upon receipt of proof, satisfactory to the Board of Trustees, of the death of a member in service, there shall be paid in a...
- § 135-64 Benefits on death after retirement
(a) In the event of the death of a former member while in receipt of a retirement allowance pursuant to his retirement under the provisions...
- § 135-65 Post-retirement increases in allowances
(a) Commencing with the post‑retirement adjustment, effective July 1, 1974, all retirement allowances payable under the provisions of this Article shall be adjusted annually in...
- § 135-66 Administration; management of funds
The State Treasurer shall be the custodian of the assets of this Retirement System and shall invest them in accordance with the provisions of G.S....
- § 135-67 Assets of Retirement System
(a) All of the assets of the Retirement System shall be credited according to the purpose for which they are held to one of two...
- § 135-68 Contributions by the members
(a) Each member shall contribute by payroll deduction for each pay period for which he receives compensation six percent (6%) of his compensation for such...
- § 135-69 Contributions by the State
(a) The State shall contribute annually an amount equal to the sum of the "normal contribution" and the "accrued liability contribution." (b) The normal contribution...
- § 135-70 Transfer of members to another system
(a) Any member whose membership service is terminated other than by retirement or death and, who, while still a member of this Retirement System becomes...
- § 135-70.1 Transfer of members from the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, or the Legislative Retirement System
(a) The accumulated contributions, creditable service, and reserves, if any, of a former teacher or employee, as defined in G.S. 135‑1(25), 135‑1(10), and 128‑21(10), respectively,...
- § 135-71 Return to membership of retired former member
(a) In the event that a retired former member should at any time return to membership service, his retirement allowance shall thereupon cease and he...
- § 135-72 Repealed by Session Laws 1999-237, s. 28.25
- § 135-73 Termination or partial termination; discontinuance of contributions
In the event of the termination or partial termination of the Retirement System or in the event of complete discontinuance of contributions under the Retirement...
- § 135-74 Internal Revenue Code compliance
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, compensation for any calendar year after 1988 in which employee or employer contributions are made...
- § 135-75 Deduction for payments to certain employees' or retirees' associations allowed
Any beneficiary who is a member of a domiciled employees' or retirees' association that has at least 2,000 members, the majority of whom are active...
- § 135-75.1 Forfeiture of retirement benefits for certain felonies
(a) Except as provided in G.S. 135‑56(g), the Board of Trustees shall not pay any retirement benefits or allowances, except for a return of member...
- § 135-76 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 4A - Uniform Solicitorial Retirement Act of 1974.
Article 4B - Uniform Clerks of Superior Court Retirement Act of 1975.
Article 5 - Supplemental Retirement Income Act of 1984.
- § 135-90 Short title and purpose
(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Supplemental Retirement Income Act of 1984". (b) The purpose of the Article is...
- § 135-91 Administration
(a) The provisions of this Article shall be administered by the Department of State Treasurer and a Board of Trustees consisting of the Board of...
- § 135-92 Membership
(a) The membership eligibility of the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan shall consist of any of the following who voluntarily elect to enroll: (1) Members of...
- § 135-93 Contributions
(a) Each member may elect to reduce his compensation by the amount of his contribution to the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan and that amount shall...
- § 135-94 Benefits
(a) The Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees shall establish a schedule of supplemental retirement income benefits for all members of the...
- § 135-95 Exemption from garnishment, attachment
Except for the applications of the provisions of G.S. 110‑136, and G.S. 110‑136.3 et seq., and in connection with a court‑ordered equitable distribution under G.S....
- § 135-96 through 135-99 Reserved for future codification purposes
Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.
- § 135-100 Short title and purpose
(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Disability Income Plan of North Carolina". (b) The purpose of this Article is...
- § 135-101 Definitions
The following words and phrases as used in this Article, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:...
- § 135-102 Administration
(a) The provisions of this Article shall be administered by the Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State...
- § 135-103 Eligible participants
(a) The eligible participants of the Disability Income Plan shall consist of: (1) All teachers and employees in service and members of the Teachers' and...
- § 135-104 Salary continuation
(a) A participant shall receive no benefits from the Plan for a period of 60 continuous calendar days from the onset of disability determined as...
- § 135-105 Short-term disability benefits
(a) Any participant who becomes disabled and is no longer able to perform his usual occupation may, after at least 365 calendar days succeeding his...
- § 135-106 Long-term disability benefits
(a) Upon the application of a beneficiary or participant or of his legal representative or any person deemed by the Board of Trustees to represent...
- § 135-107 Optional Retirement Program
Any participant of the Optional Retirement Program who becomes a beneficiary under the Plan shall be eligible to receive long‑term disability benefits so long as...
- § 135-108 Post disability benefit adjustments
The compensation upon which the short‑term or long‑term disability benefit is calculated under the provisions of G.S. 135‑105(c) or G.S. 135‑106(b) may be increased by...
- § 135-109 Reports of earnings
The Department of State Treasurer and Board of Trustees shall require each beneficiary to annually provide a statement of the beneficiary's income received as compensation...
- § 135-110 Funding and management of funds
(a) A trust fund is hereby created to which all receipts, transfers, appropriations, contributions, investment earnings and other income belonging to the Plan shall be...
- § 135-111 Applicability of other pension laws
Subject to the provisions of this Article, the provisions of G.S. 135‑9, entitled "Exemption from taxes, garnishment, attachment, etc."; G.S. 135‑10, entitled "Protection against fraud";...
- § 135-112 Transition provisions
(a) Any participant in service as of the date of ratification of this Article and who becomes disabled after one year of membership service will...
- § 135-113 Reservation of power to change
The benefits provided in this Article as applicable to a participant who is not a beneficiary under the provisions of this Article shall not be...
- § 135-114 Reciprocity of membership service with the Legislative Retirement System and the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System
Only for the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits accruing under this Article, membership service standing to the credit of a member of the Legislative...
