§ 49-1511 — Education association and other employees

Should the Tennessee education association request that its administrative employees be permitted to become members of this retirement system or should the Tennessee school boards association or the Tennessee secondary schools athletic association so request and should the association so requesting agree to make in behalf of its employees the employer's contributions required under this chapter, such employees shall be considered as teachers for the purpose of this retirement system and shall be eligible for membership herein. They shall make the same contributions and shall be eligible to the same benefits as teacher members. They shall be allowed such credit for service as shall be certified and paid for by their association. The association shall make normal contributions and special accrued liability contributions corresponding to the contributions payable by the state. The special accrued liability contributions shall be determined by an actuarial valuation of the accrued liability on account of the employees of the association who become members, in the same way as the accrued liability contributions for teacher members were determined. The contributions of the association shall be paid by the association to the board of trustees of this retirement system at the same time the state's contributions on account of teacher members are due and payable, and all benefits payable to employees of the association shall be contingent upon the payment of the necessary contributions by the association and its employees. The administrative employees as of March 1, 1959, of said associations shall be divided into two (2) groups, the first to contribute to the Tennessee teachers' retirement system as though they were class A members, and the second group to contribute as though they were class B members. Each such employee shall have the right to choose the group in which he will be placed. This division shall be effective as of January 1, 1956. Administrative employees of said associations employed after March 1, 1959, who enroll in the Tennessee teachers' retirement system shall contribute to the retirement system as though they were class A members. Administrative employees of said associations who transfer to positions covered by the Tennessee teachers' retirement system shall become class A members and contribute thereafter as such.

Legislative History

Acts 1949, ch. 33, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 2540.3 (Williams, § 2524.3); Acts 1957, ch. 87, § 3; 1959, ch. 122, § 2.