§ 5-10.4-4-1 — Membership

Indiana § 5-10.4-4-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 5: STATE AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
• Art. 10.4: STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND
• Ch. 4: Fund Membership; Employee Contributions; Creditable

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(a) The members of the fund include:
(1) legally qualified and regularly employed teachers in the public
schools;
(2) persons employed by a governing body, who were qualified
before their election or appointment;
(3) legally qualified and regularly employed teachers at Ball State
University, Indiana State University, University of Southern
Indiana, and Vincennes University;
(4) legally qualified and regularly employed teachers in a state
educational institution whose teachers devote their entire time to
teaching;
(5) legally qualified and regularly employed teachers in state
benevolent, charitable, or correctional institutions;
(6) legally qualified and regularly employed teachers in an
experimental school in a state university who teach elementary or
high school students;
(7) as determined by the board, certain instructors serving in a
state educational institution extension division not covered by a
state retirement law;
(8) employees and officers of the department of education and of
the fund who were qualified before their election or appointment;
(9) a person who:
(A) is employed as a nurse appointed under IC 20-34-3-6 by a
school corporation located in a city having a population of more
than sixty-nine thousand (69,000) and less than sixty-nine
thousand five hundred (69,500); and
(B) participated in the fund before December 31, 1991, in the
position described in clause (A); and
(10) persons who are employed by the fund.
(b) Teachers in any state institution who accept the benefits of a
state supported retirement benefit system comparable to the fund's
benefits may not come under the fund unless permitted by law or the
rules of the board.
(c) The members of the fund do not include substitute teachers who
have not obtained an associate degree or a baccalaureate degree.
(d) The members of the fund do not include individuals who
participate in the teachers' defined contribution plan under IC 5-10.4-8.
[Pre-2006 Education Finance Recodification Citation:
21-6.1-4-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.28. Amended by P.L.2-2007, SEC.95; P.L.119-2012, SEC.14; P.L.217-2017, SEC.57; P.L.104-2022, SEC.16.