La. Rev. Stat. § 11:926 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 926
Transfers
Status: in_force

A. A current member in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana who elects participation in the optional retirement plan shall have the right to have his accumulated employee contributions transferred to the optional retirement plan. Upon such election, the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana will transfer his accumulated employee contributions directly to the optional retirement plan to purchase benefits thereunder, and the funds will not be available to the employee.

B. A current vested member in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana or a member with sufficient years of service credit but who is not old enough to receive a benefit and who elects participation in the optional retirement plan will have the same rights and privileges accorded by R.S. 11:726.

Acts 1989, No. 90, §1; Acts 1991, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1991; Redesignated from R.S. 17:776 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1385 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1385
Retirement benefits; 1995 cost-of-living increase
Status: in_force

A. The retirement benefits being paid to the surviving spouses of those justices and judges of the plan who retired or died prior to July 1, 1979, shall be increased by five hundred dollars per month.

B. The retirement benefits being paid to the surviving spouses of those justices and judges of the plan who retired or died after June 30, 1979, and prior to July 1, 1984, shall be increased by ten percent of the benefits being paid to them on January 1, 1994, but no increase shall be less than two hundred fifty dollars per month or greater than three hundred fifty dollars per month.

C. The retirement benefits being paid to justices and judges of the plan who retired prior to July 1, 1979, shall be increased by fifteen percent of the benefits being paid to them on January 1, 1994, but no such increase shall be less than two hundred fifty dollars per month or greater than three hundred sixty dollars per month.

D. The retirement benefits being paid to justices and judges of the plan who retire after June 30, 1979, and prior to July 1, 1984, shall be increased by ten percent of the benefits being paid to them on January 1, 1994, but no increase shall be less than two hundred forty dollars per month or greater than two hundred seventy-five dollars per month.

E. The retirement benefits being paid to justices and judges of the plan, or any surviving spouse of such a member, who retired after June 30, 1984, and prior to July 1, 1989, shall be increased by four percent of the benefits being paid to them on January 1, 1994.

F. The provisions of this Section shall apply only to justices and judges and surviving spouses who are receiving retirement benefits governed by the provisions of the noncontributory judges retirement plan and shall not apply to those persons whose retirement is governed by the provisions of the contributory retirement plan for judges and officers of the court established by R.S. 11:551 et seq. as part of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System.

G. If the amount of funds appropriated to provide the cost-of-living adjustment set forth in this Section are not sufficient to cover the actuarial cost of such adjustment, there shall be a pro rata reduction of the adjustment granted to justices and judges named herein to cover such imbalance, provided that the adjustment of any surviving spouse shall not be affected by such reductions.

Acts 1995, No. 626, §1, eff. July 1, 1995.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3648 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3648
Persons employed after December 31, 1967
Status: in_force

A. Any member employed after December 31, 1967, or any member employed before January 1, 1968, who elects to come under provisions of this Act* which applies to members of the police department employed after December 31, 1967 may elect to receive his benefit in a retirement allowance payable throughout life, or he may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent at that time of his retirement allowance in a reduced retirement allowance payable throughout life or he may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent at that time, of his retirement allowance in a reduced retirement allowance payable throughout life with the provision that:

Option 1. If he dies before he has received in annuity payments the present value of his member's annuity as it was at the time of his retirement, the balance shall be paid to his legal representatives or to such person as he shall nominate by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees; or

Option 2. Upon his death, his reduced retirement allowance shall be continued throughout the life of and paid to such person as he shall nominate by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees at the time of his retirement; or

Option 3. Upon his death, one-half, of his reduced retirement allowance shall be continued throughout life, and paid to such person as he shall nominate by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees at the time of his retirement; or

Option 4. Some other benefit or benefits shall be paid either to the member or to such person or persons as he shall nominate provided, such other benefit or benefits, together with the reduced retirement allowance shall be certified by the actuary to be of equivalent actuarial value to his retirement allowance, and approved by the board of trustees.

B. Any such member who is eligible for retirement at the time of his death, and who leaves a widow who has been married to the member for not less than two years immediately preceding his death, shall be deemed to have exercised automatically Option 2 benefits for the benefit of his widow, who shall be paid Option 2 settlement benefits just as though the member had retired and elected Option 2 prior to his death.

C. Should any member employed after December 31, 1967, be killed in the line of duty his widow shall be paid a benefit equal to the amount which would have been payable had he continued in service for the remainder of a period of twenty years from the date of his employment at the same rate of salary and elected to retire under Option 2 hereof with no reduction for age at the date of retirement, such Option 2 shall be based on his age and the age of his widow at the date of death. Should there be no widow, but minor children, these children will be paid fifty dollars per month each until they reach age eighteen. Should the widow remarry all benefits to her will cease but any minor children will be paid fifty dollars per month each until they reach age eighteen.

Added by Acts 1967, No. 69, §4; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2294.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.

*As it appears in Acts 1967, No. 69, which amends R.S. 33:2293, 33:2293.1, 33:2294 and 33:2305 and adds R.S. 33:2294.1 and 33:2294.2.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3681 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3681
Name and date of establishment
Status: in_force

A retirement plan is hereby established and placed under the management of the Board of Trustees for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits under the provisions of this Subpart for Commissioned Members of the Harbor Police Department of the Port of New Orleans hired on or before June 30, 2014.

Acts 1971, No. 80, § 1, designated by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 648, §2 eff. June 30, 2014.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3145 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3145
Military service credit
Status: in_force

A.(1) Time served in the military service of the United States to fulfill military obligation shall be credited as "time served" for retirement benefits. Any voluntary reenlistment time shall not be credited and upon such reenlistment all rights hereunder shall be forfeited. Obligatory time served in military service must interrupt the member's employment with the fire department in order to be credited.

(2) A member serving in the Armed Forces of the United States Government, must apply for reemployment with said fire department within 90 days after his release from military service for said service time to be so applied.

B. Time lost on account of sickness and fire department "service injury" shall constitute "service" in the fire department.

C. "Service" in said fire department, as used in this Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund, shall also include any activity while on or off duty with a view toward saving life or property, excluding injury or disease from other gainful employment.

D. That period of time during which a fireman has a disability by reason of service and is drawing disability benefits pursuant to R.S. 11:3143(1) shall be credited to the member with a disability as "time served" for purposes of retirement on years of service.

E. Time served prior to the enactment of this Part in the active service of said fire department shall be considered as "service" in the said fire department and shall be credited to all active members on July 26, 1972. However, certain active members of the Bastrop Fire Department have heretofore withdrawn certain salary deductions from an existing retirement plan with the City of Bastrop. In order to be eligible for any benefits under this Part, such members must immediately begin a plan of refund of such amounts acceptable to the Board of Trustees, into this Fund and the entire amount of such withdrawals must be recovered within six months of July 26, 1972. No benefits will be paid hereunder until the entire amount withdrawn shall have been replaced.

Designated from Acts 1972, No. 23, §15 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3283 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3283
Control and management
Status: in_force

The fund shall be under the control and management of and shall be administered by a board of directors composed as hereinafter set forth.

Acts 1976, No. 615, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2132 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2216 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2216
City of Lake Charles; mandatory membership for certain employees; permissive transfer of employees
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 11:2214(A)(1) or of any other law to the contrary, all persons who become employees, as defined in R.S. 11:2213, of the city of Lake Charles on and after September 15, 1976, shall become members of this system as a condition of their employment, if they are under fifty years of age on the date of employment.

B. Upon agreement between the governing authority of the city of Lake Charles and the board of trustees of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, current, active police employees of the city of Lake Charles, and retired members of the Lake Charles Police Department who are currently receiving retirement benefits as retirees of said department, may transfer to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, provided that no rights or benefits which would have been realized under the Lake Charles Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund shall be forfeited.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 353, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2373.2 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1935 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1935
Return of accumulated contributions
Status: in_force

A. Subject to the restrictions contained herein, should a member not eligible to retire cease to be an employee under the provisions of this Chapter, he shall be paid the amount of his accumulated contributions upon demand.

B. Should a member die before retirement and not leave survivors eligible for benefits herein, the amount of his accumulated contributions shall be paid to his estate or to such person as he shall have nominated by written designation, duly executed and filed with the board.

C. Should the survivor of a member eligible for any benefit under this Chapter desire a refund of the member's contributions in lieu of such benefit, he shall receive such refund by notifying the board in writing, and executing a waiver of all benefits provided herein.

D. However, refunds of accumulated contributions shall not be required to be made to the member or to his estate until thirty days after the effective date of the member's termination or resignation or death, and until all contributions for said member have been submitted by the member's employer.

E. If a member receives a refund of contributions and is subsequently rehired on or after January 1, 2007, the provisions of this Chapter applicable to members initially hired on or after January 1, 2007, shall apply.

Acts 1979, No. 765, §1; Acts 1983, No. 647, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:6130 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2006, No. 584, §1, eff. July 1, 2006.

NOTE: See Acts 2006, No. 584, §3, relative to Act superseding conflicting provisions of Acts of 2006 R.S.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1965 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1965
Survivor benefits; eligibility
Status: in_force

A. Any member of Plan B with ten or more years of creditable service and not eligible for normal retirement at the time of his death, who leaves a surviving spouse who is not eligible for social security survivorship or retirement benefits and who has been married to the member for not less than twelve months immediately preceding his death, shall be deemed to have exercised Option 2 benefits until he becomes eligible for social security survivorship or retirement benefits or until he remarries; provided, however, that no such benefits shall be paid until the surviving spouse attains the age of fifty. Any surviving spouse who meets the above qualifications, except for survivorship benefits due to minor children, shall become eligible for benefits under this Section when he ceases to receive social security benefits due to ineligibility. The method of calculating such retirement benefits shall be on the same basis as provided in this Part.

B. Any member who is eligible for normal retirement at the time of his death, and who leaves a surviving spouse shall be deemed to have exercised Option 2 benefits on behalf of his surviving spouse, who shall be paid such benefits just as though the member had retired and elected Option 2 benefits prior to his death.

C. In the case of a death of a member occurring on or after January 1, 2007, while performing qualified military service, as defined in Section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code, eligibility for survivor benefits under this Section shall be determined as if the member had resumed employment and then terminated employment on account of death. The retirement system will credit the member's qualified military service for vesting purposes and for eligibility computation purposes as though the member, if eligible to, had met the definition of employee under the retirement system and had resumed employment under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (Chapter 43 of Title 38, United States Code) immediately prior to the member's death. The time spent by the member in qualified military service shall not count for benefit accrual purposes (creditable service) but will count only for eligibility purposes under this Section.

Acts 1979, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Redesignated from R.S. 33:6175 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2001, No. 695, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002; Acts 2011, No. 354, §1, eff. July 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1111 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1111
Employees employed on December 31, 1946; election of coverage under system
Status: in_force

A. The membership of this retirement system shall be composed of all persons who are employees on December 31, 1946, except those hereinafter specifically excluded, provided that before July 1, 1947, any such employee files with the board of trustees on a form prescribed by such board a notice of election to be covered in the membership of the system and also files enrollment as a member on a form prescribed by the board of trustees. Except as hereafter provided, after June 30, 1948, no person who has attained the age of fifty years shall be eligible to become a member.

B. Any person who was not employed on December 31, 1946, by a parish or city school board, but who prior to that time has been so employed, may become a member of the system and shall be entitled to receive credit for such prior service upon entering the system, provided he applies for membership on or before July 31, 1955.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 703, §1; Acts 1972, No. 643, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:891 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3555 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3555
City of Lafayette; eligibility to participate in fund
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary and particularly the provisions of R.S. 11:3520, any person employed as a police officer by the city of Lafayette after attaining the age of thirty-five years shall be eligible for membership in the police pension and relief fund of the city of Lafayette in the same manner and to the same extent as if such person or persons had not attained the age of thirty-five years at the time of employment. Such memberships shall be conditioned upon the filing of an application therefor with the board of trustees of the fund on or before August 1, 1970, together with such information as the board shall require. Any such person who shall be eligible to receive credit in the system for all service rendered as an employee of the police department of the city of Lafayette prior to the date on which he becomes a member in accordance with the provisions of this Section. In order to obtain such credit the member shall make application therefor and shall pay into the fund employee contributions at the current rate on all compensation earned during the period for which credit is claimed, plus two percent per annum interest thereon, provided that said contributions may be paid in one lump sum or in such installments as shall be agreed upon between the board of trustees and the applicant for membership, provided that all of such installments shall be paid on or before the date on which application for retirement is made.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 145, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2240.2 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3298 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3298
Computation of length of service
Status: in_force

The length of service for retirement or disability benefits under this Part shall commence on the first day of employment by the fire department and shall terminate on the date of retirement, unless otherwise provided by this Part.

Acts 1976, No. 615, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2145 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:501 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 501
Supplemental benefits
Status: in_force

A. The board shall provide, commencing October 1, 1977 and thereafter, a supplementary monthly benefit of twenty-five dollars to each member who retired prior to July 1, 1973, and to each beneficiary of a deceased retired member who retired prior to July 1, 1973, under option 2, option 3, or option 4, and to any survivor of a member who died prior to July 1, 1973 and prior to retirement who is receiving survivor benefits in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to affect in any manner any other benefits, including cost-of-living benefits, provided by this Chapter.

C. Beginning January 1, 1978, and in each succeeding year thereafter, the board shall inform the legislature of the amount required to pay the supplementary benefits provided herein for the ensuing fiscal year. Funds appropriated therefor shall be paid to the system and placed in a supplementary benefits account, and the supplementary benefits paid as provided herein shall be charged only to this account.

Added by Acts 1977, No. 637, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 42:625 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3235 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3235
Member participation
Status: in_force

Members of the said fire department, as used in this Part shall constitute every man actively in the employ of said fire department of the City of Houma and who is qualified under the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service System of the City of Houma, Louisiana.

Designated from Acts 1973, No. 139, §15 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:709 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 709
Retirees employed by Department of Education
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who retires from the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana and who becomes employed or reemployed by or within the Department of Education as defined in Title 36 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, shall, upon such employment or reemployment, be governed, with respect to retirement, by the laws governing the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 173, §1, eff. July 1, 1982; Redesignated from R.S. 17:578 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:476 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 476
Payment to named beneficiary in lieu of survivor's benefits; effect
Status: in_force

A. The accumulated contributions of a deceased member shall be paid in a lump sum refund to his named beneficiary or estate if no survivor's benefits are payable.

B. Payment of accumulated contributions shall be made only upon receipt of the deceased member's death certificate. Said payment to the named beneficiary or the estate cancels all liability of the system to the deceased member, his named beneficiary, or his estate.

Acts 1972, No. 135, §1, eff. July 26, 1972. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 239, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 42:606 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 587, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1109, §1, eff. July 14, 1997.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:614 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 614
Eligibility for retirement
Status: in_force

A. Any member of this plan shall be eligible for retirement if he has:

(1) Twenty-five years or more of service, at any age.

(2) Twelve years or more of service, at age fifty-five or thereafter.

(3) Twenty years of service credit at any age, exclusive of military service and unused annual and sick leave, but any person retiring under this Paragraph shall have his benefit, inclusive of military service credit and allowable unused annual and sick leave, actuarially reduced. Any member retiring under this Paragraph who is in state service at the time of his retirement shall have his benefit actuarially reduced from the earliest age that he would normally become eligible for a regular retirement benefit under Paragraph (1) or (2) of this Subsection if he had continued in service to that age. Any member retiring under this Paragraph who is out of state service at the time of his retirement shall have his benefit actuarially reduced from the earliest age that he would normally become eligible for a regular retirement benefit under Paragraph (1) or (2) of this Subsection based upon his years of service as of the date of retirement. Any employee who elects to retire under the provisions of this Paragraph shall not be eligible to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan provided by R.S. 11:447 or the Initial Benefit Option provided by R.S. 11:446(A)(5).

B.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 11:441(A)(2)(b) or any other provision of law to the contrary, any member of this plan who is not eligible for retirement under Subsection A of this Section may elect to retire under the provisions of R.S. 11:441(A)(2)(b)(i) with five years or more of service credit at age sixty or thereafter.

(2)(a) The retirement benefit and survivor benefit provisions of this Subpart, including but not limited to R.S. 11:615 and 621, shall not apply to any member of this plan who elects to retire under the provisions of R.S. 11:441(A)(2)(b)(i).

(b) Any member of this plan who elects to retire under the provisions of R.S. 11:441(A)(2)(b)(i) shall receive a retirement benefit equal to two and one-half percent of his average compensation for every year of creditable service.

(c) Retirement benefits for any member of this plan who elects to retire under the provisions of R.S. 11:441(A)(2)(b)(i) shall be paid in accordance with R.S. 11:446.

Acts 2010, No. 992, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Acts 2011, No. 368, §1, eff. July 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:61 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 61
Purpose of Subpart
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Subpart is to comply with the requirements of Article X, Section 29(E)(2)(a) and (3) of the Constitution of Louisiana that the legislature determine and set all required contributions to be made by members of state and statewide public retirement systems.

Acts 1988, No. 81, §2, eff. July 1, 1989.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2232 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2232
Limitations of membership
Status: in_force

A. No other provisions of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of Louisiana for pensions or retirement benefits for employees of the several parishes or any parish of the State of Louisiana, their widows, or other dependents, shall apply to members or beneficiaries of the retirement system established by this Chapter, their widows or other dependents.

B. Any member of this system who is also a member of the Sheriffs' Retirement System because of separate employment and pay by the sheriff may continue his membership in both systems and may draw retirement from each system provided that there shall be no duplication of credit for either service earned or salary in the two systems.

Added by Acts 1973, No. 189, §1. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 389, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2383 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3821 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3821
Creation; contributions; management; investments; board of trustees
Status: in_force

A. The Sewerage and Water Board shall set up an actuarially sound pension fund for the payment of pensions and service benefits to its employees, which pension fund may be coordinated with and supplementary to Title II of the Federal Social Security Act*; the benefits of which Act shall be made available to employees of the Sewerage and Water Board when requirements of the federal law shall have been met. Employee contributions for coverage pursuant to the agreement entered into between the state of Louisiana and the secretary of health, education, and welfare may be withheld from employees' pay, and, in addition thereto, contributions to the retirement system, not to exceed eight percent of the salary in excess of one thousand two hundred dollars per year with respect to any employee hired subsequent to December 31, 1980, and not to exceed four percent of all salary in excess of one thousand two hundred dollars per year paid to any employee employed as of December 31, 1980, and not to exceed eight percent with respect to any amount subsequently paid to any employee in excess of the salary earned by such employee as of December 31, 1980, may be withheld for the retirement fund; however, for those employees hired on or after January 1, 1996, the first one hundred dollars per month of each employee's salary, equaling one thousand two hundred dollars per year, shall be included for purposes of contributions to this system. Members who were employed prior to January 1, 1996, shall have the option of paying such an actuarial amount to this system as may be necessary to receive credit in this system, proportionate to the credit that was not received as a result of excluding one thousand two hundred dollars per year from the member's contributions to this system. In the event the agreement with the Social Security Administration is cancelled and retirement benefits are increased, employee contributions may be increased to an amount not to exceed ten percent of the total salary. The board shall set aside and pay to the pension fund from each of its funds, however described, against which salaries of its employees are properly chargeable, in proportion to the amount of salaries chargeable to each, such amounts as may be necessary to maintain the pension fund on an actuarial basis, and also to pay out of said funds the board's proportion of contributions under the provisions of the Federal Social Security Act and hospitalization insurance for all of its employees. The board is authorized to withdraw from the presently existing pension fund a sum sufficient to pay the employees' portion of the social security contribution for the period commencing January 1, 1955 to August 1, 1956, and to pay out of its Operating-Maintenance Funds the employers' portion of the social security contributions for the same period.

B. The pension fund shall be under the jurisdiction, control, and management of the board of trustees of the retirement system and shall be used for no other purpose than to pay pensions to employees and may pay plan sponsorship fees under the rules and regulations adopted by the board of trustees of the retirement system. Plan sponsorship fees include but are not limited to fees for money management, investment services, and custodial services.

C. The board of trustees of the retirement system may make such rules and regulations as it deems proper to carry out the purposes and objects of this Part in regard to pensions to be paid to its employees, subject to the following restrictions:

(1) No salaries, fees, commissions or emoluments shall be paid out of the pension fund to anyone serving on the pension committee or in any other capacity. The executive director and the special counsel of the Sewerage and Water Board shall act in the same official capacities for the pension fund without additional compensation.

(2) All assessments, dues, contributions, or monies received from any source for use or benefit of the pension fund and all surpluses, if and when accumulated and established, shall be invested by utilizing the prudent-man rule as provided in R.S. 11:263(C). The prudent-man rule shall require each fiduciary of this retirement system and each member of the board of trustees to act collectively on behalf of this board exercising the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing as a prudent institutional investor of ordinary discretion and intelligence in the management of large investments entrusted to such board.

D. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the board of trustees of the retirement system may invest no more than sixty-five percent of the pension fund portfolio in equities, and no more than twenty-five percent of the pension fund shall be invested in any single equity.

E. The board of trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of the Sewerage and Water Board of the city of New Orleans shall be composed of:

(1) The members of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans as provided in R.S. 33:4071.

(2) The three duly elected employee members of the pension committee, which committee is defined and described in the rules and regulations of the retirement system.

(3) The one retiree member of the pension committee, which committee is defined and described in the rules and regulations of the retirement system.

Amended by Acts 1956, No. 551, §1; Acts 1960, No. 551, §1; Acts 1968, No. 413, §1; Acts 1973, No. 62, §1; Acts 1980, No. 627, §1, eff. July 24, 1980; Redesignated from R.S. 33:4076 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 349, §1, eff. June 3, 1993; Acts 1995, No. 102, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 103, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 670, §1, eff. June 21, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 683, §1, eff. June 21, 1995; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 47, §1, eff. April 17, 2000; Acts 2001, No. 773, §1; Acts 2011, No. 396, §1, eff. July 1, 2011.

*42 U.S.C.A. §401 et seq.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3775 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3775
Disability benefits to cease upon recovery or refusal to return to work
Status: in_force

Any member receiving a pension for disability, who refused to return to duty in the Department upon recovering from said disability, shall forfeit all claims to further benefits hereunder, provided that an opening awaits said member in the Department upon such recovery; the matter of openings in employment is to be subject to the contract currently existing by and between City of Monroe and the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway, Motor Coach Employees, Local No. 1160.

Designated from Acts 1952, No. 187, §16 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2071 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2071
Retirement benefits; application and eligibility requirements
Status: in_force

A. Any member upon withdrawal from service, upon or after attainment of the age of sixty years, who shall have completed at least ten years of creditable service, or after the age of fifty-five years who shall have completed at least twenty years of creditable service, or who shall have thirty years of creditable service, regardless of age shall be entitled to receive a retirement allowance which shall begin as of the date specified by the member in his application for the said allowance but in no event before withdrawal from service.

B. Any member whose withdrawal from service occurs prior to his attaining the age of sixty years, who shall have completed more than ten years of creditable service and shall not have received a refund of his accumulated contributions shall be entitled to receive a retirement allowance beginning upon his attaining the age of sixty years of the amount earned and accrued at the date of withdrawal from service; provided that such benefits shall begin at age fifty-five if he has twenty or more years of creditable service.

Acts 1954, No. 215, §5(1). Amended by Acts 1969, No. 88, §1; Acts 1971, No. 79, §1; Acts 1974, No. 388, §1; Acts 1989, No. 202, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 18:1731 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1196 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1196
Normal and accrued liability contributions payable by state, determination; certification to governor of amounts needed
Status: in_force

A. The amount payable annually by the State of Louisiana on account of normal and accrued liability contributions shall be determined by applying the employer's contribution rate to the amount of compensation earned by employees who are members of the retirement system.

B. On or before March first next preceding each regular session of the legislature, the board of trustees shall determine the amount payable to the state for each of the two years of the ensuing biennium, and shall certify the amounts necessary to the governor and to the state budget officer.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:988 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:901.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 901.2
Administration of supplement; reduction of monthly payments
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, under such rules and regulations as the said board of trustees may adopt not inconsistent herewith, shall administer the benefit or supplement provided by this Part.

Should it appear to the board of trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System that during any fiscal year the total amount of the benefits provided exceeds the sum appropriated to pay the cost of the benefit provided in this Part, the board of trustees is hereby directed and empowered to reduce each monthly payment authorized hereunder by a proportionate percentage.

Added by Acts 1952, No. 568, §2. Amended by Acts 1975, Ex.Sess., No. 3, §2, eff. June 1, 1975. Redesignated from R.S. 17:712 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:752 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 752
Conversion of sick leave to membership service
Status: in_force

A. When a member retires or dies while still a member and before retirement leaving a surviving spouse or dependent or both who are entitled to benefits under this Chapter his unused accumulated sick leave shall be added to his membership service. The additional membership service set forth in this Section shall not be included in the service on which average final compensation is determined.

B. For the purpose of determining the amount of unused sick leave to be added to the member's membership service only, the retirement system shall determine the amount of sick leave earned, but for retirement system purposes only, on the following basis. Nine-month employees earn ten days per year and ten-month employees earn eleven days per year. If the nine-month or ten-month employee works extra during the summer he will receive one day or a portion thereof for each month or portion thereof that he works. Eleven-month and twelve-month employees earn twelve days per year during the first three years, fifteen days per year for the next seven years, and eighteen days per year for each year over ten years. The system shall deduct the actual days of sick leave used by the member from the amount of sick leave earned for retirement purposes. Sick leave last earned shall be used first. The balance of unused sick leave for retirement purposes shall be added to his membership service on the basis of the conversion tables in Subsections C and D of this Section.

C. All unused sick leave credit days earned for membership service credit only under Subsection B of this Section on or before June 30, 1988, shall be converted to years based on the following table:

25

-

45

days

=

.25

year

46

-

90

days

=

.50

year

91

-

135

days

=

.75

year

136

-

180

days

=

1.00

year

181

-

225

days

=

1.25

years

226

-

270

days

=

1.50

years

271

-

315

days

=

1.75

years

316

-

360

days

=

2.00

years

361

-

405

days

=

2.25

years

406

-

450

days

=

2.50

years

451

-

495

days

=

2.75

years

496

-

540

days

=

3.00

years

541

-

585

days

=

3.25

years

586

-

630

days

=

3.50

years

631

-

675

days

=

3.75

years

676

-

720

days

=

4.00

years

D. All unused sick leave credit days earned for membership service credit only under Subsection B of this Section after June 30, 1988, less the number of days for which the employer pays upon the member's retirement, shall be converted to years based upon the following table for the member's type of employment at the time of retirement. Eleven-month and twelve-month employees in Subsection B of this Section shall receive twelve days per year during the first ten years of service and eighteen days per year for each year thereafter.

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Months

Months

Months

Months

Accumulated

Accumulated

Accumulated

Accumulated

Credit

Sick Days

Sick Days

Sick Days

Sick Days

.1 year

10-18

11-20

12-22

13-24

.2 year

19-36

21-40

23-44

25-48

.3 year

37-54

41-60

45-66

49-72

.4 year

55-72

61-80

67-88

73-96

.5 year

73-90

81-100

89-110

97-120

.6 year

91-108

101-120

111-132

121-144

.7 year

109-126

121-140

133-154

145-168

.8 year

127-144

141-160

155-176

169-192

.9 year

145-162

161-180

177-198

193-216

1 year

163-180

181-200

199-220

217-240

E. All unused sick leave credit days earned under Subsections B and D of this Section which are convertible under Subsection D of this Section and which are earned after June 30, 1990, and which are in excess of an amount which would convert to one year of service credit may only be added to the member's membership service if purchased and paid as provided in this Subsection. In order to purchase the unused sick leave as service credit the member shall pay to the retirement system an amount which, on an actuarial basis, totally offsets the increase in accrued liability of the system resulting from the receipt of the credit. The amount payable shall be calculated by use of the actuarial funding method, assumptions, and tables in use by the system at the time of purchase. Any leave purchased under this Section cannot be used to attain eligibility for any benefits and cannot be used in the computation of average compensation. The employer institution, in its discretion, may pay not more than fifty percent of the purchase price. However, if it makes such a payment, it shall then make such payment, in the same percentage, with respect to all employees who make application.

Acts 1988, No. 717, §1; Acts 1990, No. 625, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Redesignated from R.S. 17:623.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 1353, §1, eff. July 1, 1997.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1759 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1759
Return of accumulated contributions
Status: in_force

A. Subject to the restrictions contained herein, should a member not eligible to retire cease to be an employee under the provisions of this Chapter, he shall be paid the amount of his accumulated contributions upon demand.

B. Should a member die before retirement and not leave survivors eligible for benefits herein, the amount of his accumulated contributions shall be paid to his estate or to such person as he shall have nominated by written designation, duly executed and filed with the board.

C. Should the survivor of a member eligible for any benefit under this Chapter desire a refund of the member's contributions in lieu of such benefit, he shall receive such refund by notifying the board in writing, and executing a waiver of all benefits provided herein.

D. However, refunds of accumulated contributions shall not be required to be made to the member or to his estate until and unless the member has been terminated from a participating municipality for thirty days and until all contributions for said member have been submitted by the member's employer.

Acts 1983, No. 648, §1; Acts 1990, No. 48, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:7198 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2020, No. 31, §1, eff. June 30, 2020.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1204 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1204
Unclaimed funds, checks, and property; retention by system
Status: in_force

Any unclaimed employee contributions, other funds, checks, or any other property which is held by the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System which could be claimed by a member or prior member, the member's beneficiary, heirs, or estate shall never be presumed abandoned and shall be continuously held by the retirement system in the proper account for the benefit of the member, prior member, the member's beneficiary, heirs, or estate.

Acts 1984, No. 78, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:994 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:571 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 571
Applicability of other law
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this Subpart the provisions of Chapter 1 of Subtitle II of Title 11 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 shall be applicable to persons covered by this Subpart.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 518, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 13:26 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2225.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2225.3
Unclaimed funds, checks, and property; retention by system
Status: in_force

Any unclaimed employee contributions, other funds, checks, or any other property held by the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System that could be claimed by a member or prior member, the member's beneficiary, heirs, or estate shall never be presumed abandoned and shall be held continuously by the retirement system for the benefit of such member, prior member, the member's beneficiary, heirs, or estate.

Acts 1992, No. 262, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1149 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1149
Contributions of members out of service for five years
Status: in_force

Whenever a member who has less than ten years of service credit has been out of service for five years without having applied for a refund of contributions, the retirement system shall transmit to him by certified mail, return receipt requested, at his last known address, a notification of his rights with respect to the contributions. The notification shall include information regarding his rights to the refund of contributions, his rights to leave the contributions in the system if he plans to reenter service, his rights to use the contributions for reciprocity or transfer of service credit if he becomes a member of another system, and any rights he may have to a retirement allowance pursuant to R.S. 11:1142. Upon a valid request for a refund of contributions, such refund will be made from the annuity savings fund.

Acts 1984, No. 60, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:917.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2016, No. 319, §1, eff. June 30, 2016.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1906 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1906
Protection against fraud
Status: in_force

Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this system in an attempt to defraud the system shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the parish jail not to exceed twelve months, such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

Acts 1979, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Redesignated from R.S. 33:6106 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1845 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1845
Private interest of trustees and employees in financial operation of system prohibited
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise herein provided, no trustee and no employee of the board of trustees shall have any direct interest in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board of trustees, nor as such receive any pay or emolument for his service other than reimbursement of expenses as provided in Part V. No trustee or employee of the board shall, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent in any manner use the same, except to make such current and necessary payments as are authorized by the board of trustees; nor shall any trustee or employee of the board of trustees become an endorser or surety or in any manner an obligor for moneys loaned or borrowed by the board of trustees.

Acts 1978, No. 788, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:7355 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1984 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1984
Administrative director
Status: in_force

The administrative director shall be in charge of the general administration of the system. He shall have such special powers and duties as may be properly delegated or assigned by the board from time to time. Such general administrative duties shall include, but not be limited to: The employment of the system's office staff; the correlation of the board's actions with the authorized agent of each employer; the supervision of periodic disclosure to the members and beneficiaries of information necessary for the full understanding of their rights and obligations under the system; the computation of the amounts of benefits, prior service credits, and contributions required for reinstatement of credits for board consideration; the processing of accrued benefit claims and expenses of administration for payment; the placing of any and all matters before the board which require action or are in the interest of the board or the system; the preparation and maintenance of necessary and proper records for administrative and actuarial purposes; the preparation of any necessary or desirable communications in the course of operations of the system, and the carrying out of any actions of the board which are so delegated.

Acts 1979, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Redesignated from R.S. 33:6194 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3643 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3643
Bond of treasurer
Status: in_force

The treasurer of the board shall give a surety bond in favor of the board in the sum of ten thousand dollars with a surety company duly authorized to write surety bonds in and under the laws of the state. The bond shall be conditioned upon the honest and faithful performance of his duty, and a strict accounting for all monies of the fund entrusted to him.

Redesignated from R.S. 33:2291 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2181 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2181
Physical examination; delinquency
Status: in_force

A.(1) In order for any applicant to be eligible for membership in the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, such applicant must complete the enrollment process including a physical examination to be paid by the employing sheriff. If the current physical or mental condition or medical history of an applicant, as reflected on the physical examination form, is outside the guidelines established by the board physician, said applicant shall be required to execute a waiver for any condition reflected thereon.

(2) The enrollment process, including completion of application forms, physical examination, and completion of any waivers of preexisting conditions, shall be completed and all documents received by the fund by December 1, 1994, or six months after the date of employment, whichever is later, for the applicant to become a member eligible to begin vesting for regular and disability benefits from the date of employment. If the enrollment process is not completed by December 1, 1994, or six months after the date of employment, whichever is later, the applicant will be a member eligible to begin vesting for regular benefits from date of employment, but not eligible to begin vesting for disability benefits until completion of the enrollment process.

(3) It shall be the responsibility of the employing sheriff to insure that the enrollment process is timely completed, or to provide the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund with notification of noncompliance by the applicant. Should any member who has not completed the enrollment process be injured in the line of duty and apply for disability benefits, that member shall be required to prove that the disabling condition was not preexisting.

B. Any sheriff who becomes delinquent for a period in excess of ninety days in the collection and remittance to the secretary-treasurer of the amounts due as monthly contributions, shall be liable to an assessment as a penalty therefor of twenty-five per centum of the aggregate monthly contributions due by him and his deputies.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 218, §1; Acts 1954, No. 239, §1; Acts 1956, No. 464, §1; Acts 1958, No. 173, §1; Acts 1981, No. 236, §1; Acts 1987, No. 50, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1457 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 313, §1; Acts 1995, No. 672, §1, eff. June 1, 1994.

NOTE: Acts 1995, No. 672, §2 provides that provisions of the Act are retroactive to June 1, 1994.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:415 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 415
Termination of membership
Status: in_force

Membership in this system ceases when a member withdraws his accumulated contributions, or when a member withdraws from active service with a retirement allowance, or when a member dies.

Acts 1972, No. 135, §1, eff. July 26, 1972; Redesignated from R.S. 42:556 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3558 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3558
Morgan City; credit for military service
Status: in_force

A. In addition to the provisions of any other law, particularly R.S. 11:3521, any person who is a member of the Morgan City police pension and relief fund shall be entitled to service credit for such pension and relief fund for service in the military of the United States since World War II.

B. Application for credit for such service shall be made and evidence thereof shall be furnished to the board of trustees of the police pension and relief fund at any time prior to application for retirement. In addition, each person claiming such credit shall pay into the fund an amount equal to the employer and employee contributions, at the current rate, together with compound interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum on the compensation which the member would have received during the period of military service for which credit is claimed had he at that time been a member of his respective retirement system. For purposes of computation, the following compensation of the person claiming credit will be considered: if the person was employed as a police officer prior to service in the military, the compensation received immediately prior to entry into military service; if the person enters the police force after service in the military, the compensation which he would have received in each of the years for which credit for military service is claimed had he been employed in his beginning classification for police service in the first year for which credit is claimed. Such contribution shall be paid in one lump sum at any time prior to the member's application for retirement.

C. The board of trustees of the police pension and relief fund shall notify the members of the Morgan City police force of the privilege granted by this Section, together with necessary information for obtaining such credit, as soon as practicable.

Added by Acts 1970, No. 144, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2241.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:951.50 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 951.50
Pensions payable from accumulation account; transfers to reserve account
Status: in_force

A. All pensions payable on account of participants entitled to prior service credit shall be payable from the pension accumulation account.

B. Upon the retirement of a participant not entitled to credit for prior service, an amount equal to his pension reserve shall be transferred from the pension accumulation account to the pension reserve account.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:1080 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1001 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1001
Name and establishment of retirement system; domicile; nominee name; partnership
Status: in_force

A. A retirement system is established and placed under the management of a board of trustees for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for school bus operators, school janitors, school custodians, school maintenance employees, and other school employees employed in the state public school system. The retirement system is created as of July 31, 1946, but shall begin full operation as of July 1, 1947.

B. It shall be a state agency domiciled in East Baton Rouge Parish and shall have the powers and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System and by such name, or its nominee name which is hereby established as "LSERS," all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, and all of its cash and securities and other property held, except as provided in Subsection C hereof. The secretary-treasurer of the system shall be the agent for service of legal process. C. The board of trustees may form a partnership for the purpose of trading in its nominee name. The state treasurer, the secretary-treasurer of the system and the assistant secretary-treasurer of the system shall be members of any such partnership. Other members of the partnership may be appointed by the board of trustees from among its membership. Each member of such partnership shall have the same fiduciary responsibility as do the trustees of the system.

Acts 1983, No. 18, §1, eff. June 9, 1983; Redesignated from R.S. 17:881 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2024, No. 594, §3.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:235 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 235
Minor's benefit placed in trust; payable under trust instrument
Status: in_force

A. If a state or statewide retirement system provides for payment of benefits to the minor child of a deceased member, when there is no surviving spouse or when the surviving spouse does not have legal custody of the minor child, then, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, benefits shall be paid to such minor child in accordance with the law of the respective state or statewide retirement system except as provided in Subsection B of this Section.

B. If a trust has been created under Louisiana law by the deceased member for the benefit of the child, the terms of the instrument creating the trust so provide, and the respective system has been provided with a certified copy of the trust document, then the survivor benefit due the minor child shall be paid to the trustee for addition to the trust property. If the trust is contested by any party, the respective retirement system shall withhold all survivor benefit payments or deposit them in the registry of the court if a concursus proceeding is filed, until there is a final binding legal agreement or judgment regarding the proper payment of the survivor benefits.

Acts 1995, No. 54, §1, eff. June 12, 1995.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:822 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 822
Members of board of trustees; appointment or election; terms of office; vacancies; compensation
Status: in_force

A. The board shall consist of such trustees as follows:

(1) The state superintendent of education, ex officio, or his designee.

(2) One voting member representing the members paid by school food service funds shall be elected by a majority of the members for a four-year term.

(3) The state treasurer, ex officio, or his designee. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 49:307.1, the treasurer may name any person as his designee to this board.

(4) The commissioner of administration, ex officio, or his designee.

(5) A member of the House Committee on Retirement appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, or the member's designee.

(6) The chairman of the Retirement Committee of the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature, ex officio, or his designee.

(7) One voting member representing the state colleges and universities at large shall be elected by a majority of the members of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana employed by the colleges and universities of the state for a four-year term.

(8) One voting member from and to represent each of seven districts, to be elected by a majority of the members employed in the respective districts to a four-year term, except those members who are employed by the state colleges and universities and who elect a representative under Paragraph (7) of this Subsection and those members paid by school food service funds and who elect a representative under Paragraph (2) of this Subsection and who shall not be a parish or city superintendent of schools. The seven districts shall be composed of parishes as follows:

(a) District 1: Ascension, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard.

(b) District 2: Washington, St. Tammany, Orleans.

(c) District 3: East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne.

(d) District 4: Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, DeSoto, Red River, Bienville, Lincoln, Sabine, Natchitoches.

(e) District 5: Union, Morehouse, West Carroll, East Carroll, Jackson, Ouachita, Richland, Madison, Caldwell, Franklin, Tensas, Catahoula, Concordia, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, St. Helena, Livingston, Tangipahoa.

(f) District 6: Winn, Grant, LaSalle, Vernon, Rapides, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Allen, Evangeline, St. Landry, Pointe Coupee, Jefferson Davis, St. Martin, West Baton Rouge.

(g) District 7: Calcasieu, Acadia, Cameron, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Mary.

(9) Two voting members to represent the retired teachers shall be elected by a majority of those voting retired members of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana for a four-year term.

(10) One voting member, who shall be a parish or city superintendent of schools, shall be elected by all parish and city superintendents of schools in Louisiana, for a four-year term.

(11) The commissioner of higher education, ex officio, or his designee.

B. There shall be no restriction as to type of employment or position held as a qualification for any member seeking election under Paragraphs (A)(7) through (9) of this Section; however, an elected member of the board who has served at least twelve months of his term shall be eligible to continue as a member of the board following the effective date of his retirement from the system, until the expiration of the term for which he was elected; however, no elected member of the board shall be eligible to continue as a member of the board after December thirty-first following any change in his principal residence, employment, or status which would otherwise render him ineligible to become a candidate for the position to which he was previously elected.

C. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a trustee, the board of trustees may fill the vacancy by appointment of a person who is otherwise qualified and eligible to hold that particular office which is vacant. When a vacancy occurs in the office of a trustee and the unexpired portion of the term exceeds one year, the vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the board of trustees has adopted for regular elections, and the appointment shall be effective only until a successor takes office. Vacancies in ex officio positions shall be filled as required by law.

D. Members of the board of trustees shall receive for attendance at meetings of the board a per diem of fifty dollars plus the normal expense allowance allowed state employees by the division of administration provided funds are available for this purpose.

E. In order to be certified as a candidate for election to membership on the board of trustees, a member must qualify as a candidate prior to May first of the year in which the election is to be held to fill the position on the board and the qualification must be in compliance with the rules and regulations adopted by the board for qualifications. If the election is to fill an unexpired term on the board, the board of trustees may set any other date by which a person must qualify in order to be certified as a candidate for election to fill the unexpired term. At least thirty days before the election of trustees, the board of trustees shall cause to be transmitted to each member, election information which has been approved by the board of trustees and reviewed by the chairmen of the House of Representatives and Senate committees on retirement.

Acts 1964, No. 202, §1; Acts 1972, No. 144, §1; Acts 1975, Ex.Sess., No. 3, §2, eff. June 1, 1975; Acts 1977, No. 743, §1; Acts 1978, No. 648, §8, eff. July 13, 1978; Acts 1980, No. 176, §1; Acts 1981, No. 233, §1; Acts 1982, No. 718, §1; Acts 1986, No. 404, §1; Acts 1988, No. 141, §1; Acts 1989, No. 74, §1; Acts 1990, No. 631, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1991, No. 73, §1, eff. Jan. 13, 1992; Redesignated from R.S. 17:652 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 598, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 1993, No. 722, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2003, No. 688, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2003, No. 820, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2012, No. 113, §1, eff. June 30, 2012; Acts 2016, No. 621, §1, eff. June 17, 2016; Acts 2025, No. 47, §1, eff. July 1, 2025.

{{NOTE: SEE §2 OF ACT 73 OF 1991.}}
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1383 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1383
Retired judges serving on assignment; pay after completion of assignment
Status: in_force

A. Any person who became a judge of a court of record of this state on July 29, 1960, and who retired from such office on March 3, 1972, his eightieth birthday, and who subsequently was assigned by the Supreme Court of Louisiana to active duty as a judge of any such court of record, and who on April 17, 1978, was serving on such an assignment, and who has served by such assignment or assignments, not necessarily continuous, for at least four years, shall receive, at the time of the completion of duties to which he is assigned on April 17, 1978, pay equal to the full salary paid by the state of Louisiana to a judge of the Eleventh Judicial District as of March 3, 1972, for so long as he lives.

B. Upon the death of any person entitled to benefits under Subsection A hereof, his surviving spouse shall receive one-half of the amount as a pension for the remainder of the life of the spouse.

C. The payments to any person entitled to benefits under Subsection A hereof and the pension to the surviving spouse shall be made from the same sources and in the same manner as that from which salary and retirement benefits paid were received.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 649, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 13:9.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1342 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1342
Definitions
Status: in_force

All definitions provided in R.S. 11:1301 are applicable to this excess benefit plan unless a different definition is provided in this Part, or the context in which a term is used in this Part indicates a different meaning.

(1) "Excess benefit participant" means any member whose retirement benefit as determined on the basis of all qualified plans without regard to the limitations of R.S. 11:1336 and comparable provisions of other qualified plans of the employer would exceed the maximum benefit permitted under Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code.

(2) "Maximum benefit" means the retirement benefit a member is entitled to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter in any month after giving effect to R.S. 11:1336 and any similar provisions of any other qualified plans designed to conform to Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code.

(3) "Unrestricted benefit" means the monthly retirement benefit a member, or the spouse, child, or dependent parent of a member, would have received under the terms of all qualified plans of the employer, except for the restrictions of R.S. 11:1336 and any similar provisions of any other qualified plans designed to conform to Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Acts 2003, No. 876, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2165.5 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2165.5
Annual amount of retirement allowance
Status: in_force

A.(1) The annual amount of the retirement allowance for any member who upon retirement has less than thirty years of creditable service in this system shall be three percent of the average final compensation for each year of creditable service earned in a position covered by this system.

(2) The annual amount of the retirement allowance for any member who upon retirement has at least thirty years of creditable service, with at least twenty years of creditable service earned in a position covered by this system, shall be three and one-third percent of the average final compensation for each year of creditable service earned in a position covered by this system.

(3) Creditable service transferred to this system pursuant to R.S. 11:143 shall be governed by the provisions of that Section.

B. The benefits provided in this Section shall not exceed one hundred percent of average compensation.

Acts 2012, No. 719, §1, eff. June 30, 2012; Acts 2018, No. 614, §1, eff. July 1, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3412 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3412
Military service credit; computation of length of service
Status: in_force

A. An employee of Fire Protection District No. One who is called from private life into military service of the United States or the state of Louisiana in time of war, peril, insurrection, flood, calamity, or other cause, may apply such military service time as service with the fire protection district for the purpose of retirement benefits under this Part, if such member actually was in the active service of Fire Protection District No. One prior to the commencement of his military service and if the member applies for reemployment with the fire protection district within ninety days after his release from such military service. All dues and benefits are waived during this period.

B. Time lost by an employee of Fire Protection District No. One on account of illness, injury, physical infirmity, or disability shall constitute service in Fire Protection District No. One and shall count as service toward earning the right to retirement benefits for the employee; however, time lost by an employee of Fire Protection District No. One, who is drawing benefits under R.S. 11:3410(3), shall not constitute serving in Fire Protection District No. One and shall not count as service toward earning the right to retirement benefits for the employee.

C. Time served prior to July 31, 1968 by employees in the active service of Fire Protection District No. One shall be considered as service in the said fire protection district for the retirement provisions of this Part.

Designated from Acts 1968, No. 31, §14 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:565.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 565.1
Credit for service as full-time law clerk
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who is a participant in the retirement plan maintained for judges and officers of the court within the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System shall be eligible to receive nonjudicial credit for all service rendered as a full-time law clerk for a judge or justice of any district court or appellate court of record in this state. In order to obtain this credit, the member shall make application therefor on or before January 1, 1998, and furnish to the board of trustees a detailed statement of all service for which credit is claimed in such form as the board may require. In addition, there shall be paid into the system, if not previously paid, an amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:158. Such amounts shall be paid in one lump sum.

Acts 1995, No. 1175, §1; Acts 1997, No. 490, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1139 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1139
Credit for support personnel service credit in other states
Status: in_force

A.(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, any member who has six months of creditable service in this system shall be eligible to obtain credit for full-time service as an employee, as the term "employee" is defined in R.S. 11:1002(13), rendered in any school system, public or private, of this state or any other state, provided that service shall not be credited to this system if the member already has credit for that service in any other retirement system.

(2) In order to receive such credit, the retirement system in which the member was enrolled while employed as an "employee" in another state shall certify that the member does not have credit in that system which duplicates the credit being purchased in this system.

(3) To purchase credit for such service, the member shall apply to the board of trustees of the system and shall furnish a detailed statement of all such service, as the board may require. Additionally, the member shall pay an amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:158. The cost of such service shall be paid in a lump sum, and the amount paid shall be credited to the member's account in the Annuity Savings Fund.

B. The board of trustees shall promulgate rules and regulations regarding the amount of such service which must be rendered to equal one year of credit in this system, but in no event shall more than one year of service be credited for all service rendered in any one fiscal year.

C. Credit for such service shall not be granted in this fund if the member is receiving a regular or disability retirement benefit based on such service.

Acts 2003, No. 685, §1; Acts 2003, No. 764, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3761 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3761
Bus driver's pension and relief fund of the city of Monroe; creation
Status: in_force

From July 30, 1952, the assets, funds, monies and properties presently constituting the Bus Drivers' Pension Fund of the City of Monroe, Louisiana, shall, together with the funds, proceeds and revenues hereinafter provided for, constitute and be "The Bus Drivers' Pension and Relief Fund of the City of Monroe"; and such fund is hereby dedicated to the pensioning of members with disabilities, members who are superannuated, and retired members of the Bus Drivers' Department of the City of Monroe, and their widows and orphans and for the relief and aid of members of the bus drivers' department in the case of disability as provided in this Part.

Designated from Acts 1952, No. 187, §1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3041 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3041
Disability retirement annuity; qualification
Status: in_force

A. Any member who is less than sixty years of age, who shall have rendered at least ten years of total service and who shall become totally and permanently disabled for service, either mentally or physically, regardless of how or where the disability shall have occurred, shall be entitled to a disability retirement annuity.

B. A member shall be considered as having a total and permanent disability only after the board shall have received written certification by at least two licensed and practicing physicians selected by the board, that the member is totally and likely to be permanently disabled for further performance of the duties of any assigned position in the service of the city.

C. Such annuity shall begin to accrue upon expiration of ninety days following the commencement of disability, provided that if written application for such annuity is not filed with the board prior to the expiration of the ninety days and within the last thirty days of such period, the annuity shall begin to accrue as of the thirty days prior to the receipt of such application.

D. The annual amount of disability retirement annuity shall be equal to one and one-half percent of average final compensation for each year of total service, subject to a minimum of twenty-five percent of average compensation and a maximum annual payment of fifty percent of average compensation.

E. The disability annuity herein provided shall be subject to reduction by any amounts received or receivable by a member of worker's compensation under applicable worker's compensation laws.

Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §11, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1864 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1864
Payment of contributions; delinquency penalty; agreement to deductions
Status: in_force

A. Each participating employer shall pay into the appropriate fund, with respect to earnings, at such time or times as the board may by regulation prescribe, contributions in the amounts and at the rates prescribed by the board as set forth in Parts III and IV of this Chapter.

B. Every employer required to make payments pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, is authorized, to impose upon its employees, a contribution with respect to earnings as set forth in Parts III and IV of this Chapter and to deduct the amount of such contribution from earnings as and when paid. Contributions so collected shall be paid to the board in partial discharge of the liability of such employer. Failure to deduct such contribution shall not relieve the employee or employer of liability thereof.

C. Delinquent payments due pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, may, with interest at the system's actuarial valuation rate compounded annually, be recovered by action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the employer liable therefor or shall, upon due certification of delinquency and at the request of the board, be deducted from any other monies payable to such employer by any department or agency of the state.

D. The deductions provided for herein shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided for by law for any member shall be reduced thereby. Every member shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deductions made and provided for herein and shall receipt for his full salary or compensation. The payment of salary or compensation less said deductions shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such person during the period covered by such payment, except as to the benefits provided under this Chapter. The employer shall certify to the board on each and every payroll or in such other manner as the board may prescribe, the amounts to be deducted; and each of said amounts shall be deducted, and when deducted shall be paid into the respective annuity savings fund, and shall be credited to the individual account of the member from whose compensation said deduction was made.

Acts 1978, No. 788, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:7394 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2009, No. 68, §1, eff. July 1, 2009.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3313 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3313
Control and management
Status: in_force

That said fund shall be under the control and management of and shall be administered by, a Board of Directors composed as hereinafter set forth.

Designated from Acts 1944, No. 186, §3 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2241.6 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2241.6
Deferred Retirement Option Plan; Initial Benefit Option
Status: in_force

A member who is eligible for regular retirement may elect to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:2221 or the Initial Benefit Option provided by R.S. 11:2224(F).

Acts 2012, No. 522, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1546 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1546
Private interest of trustees and employees in financial operation of system prohibited
Status: in_force

No trustee and no employee of the board of trustees shall have any direct interest in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board of trustees, nor as such receive any pay or emolument for his service other than reimbursement of expenses.

Acts 1986, No. 1063, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1986; Redesignated from R.S. 13:956 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3685.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3685.1
Limitations on payment of benefits
Status: in_force

A.(1) Unless the member has elected otherwise on or before December 31, 1983, the entire benefit of a member shall be distributed over a period no longer than any of the following periods:

(a) The member's life.

(b) The life of the member's designated beneficiary, if the member is married.

(c) The member's life expectancy.

(d) The joint life and last survivor life expectancy of the member and his designated beneficiary.

(2) If the member is married and his spouse survives him, the designated beneficiary for at least a qualified joint and survivor annuity and fifty percent of the Deferred Retirement Option Plan Account shall be his spouse, unless such spouse has consented to the contrary in writing before a notary public. For purposes of this Paragraph, "spouse" shall mean that person who is married to the member under a legal regime of community of acquets and gains on his effective date of retirement or effective date of participation in the DROP, whichever is earlier.

(3) If the member was a member on or before December 31, 1983, he shall be deemed to have made the election referred to in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection. If a member dies after the commencement of his benefits, the remaining portion of his benefit shall be distributed at least as rapidly as before his death. Payment of survivor benefits shall not be considered to violate this provision.

B.(1) If the member dies before his benefit has commenced, the remainder of such interest shall be distributed to the member's beneficiary within five years after the date of such member's death.

(2) However, the provisions of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply:

(a) To any portion of a member's benefit which is payable to or for the benefit of a designated beneficiary, over the life of or over the life expectancy of the beneficiary, provided that the distributions begin no later than one year after the date of the member's death, or in the case of the member's surviving spouse, the date the member would have attained the age of seventy years and six months. If the designated beneficiary is a child of the member, for purposes of satisfying the requirement of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, any amount paid to the child shall be treated as if paid to the member's surviving spouse if the amount would become payable to the surviving spouse, if alive, upon the child's reaching age eighteen or, if later, upon the child's completing a designated event. For purposes of this Subparagraph, a designated event shall be the later of the date the child ceases to have a disability or the date the child ceases to be a full-time student or attains age twenty-three, if earlier.

(b) If the distribution of the member's interest has commenced and is for a term certain over a period permitted in Subsection A of this Section.

(c) If the member has elected otherwise on or before December 31, 1983, or such later date to which such election period shall be subject under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a).

C. As to any benefit payable by the retirement system which is not optional as of December 31, 1983, the member shall be considered to have made the election referred to in Subsections A and B of this Section, if he were a member on or before such time.

D. If by operation of law or by action of the board of trustees, a survivor benefit is payable to a specified person, the member shall be considered to have designated the person as an alternate beneficiary. If there is more than one such person, then the youngest child with a disability shall be considered to have been so designated, or, if none, then the youngest person entitled to receive a survivor benefit shall be considered to have been so designated. The designation of a designated beneficiary shall not prevent payment to multiple beneficiaries, but shall only establish the permitted period of payments.

E. Payment in accordance with the survivor benefit provisions of R.S. 11:3685(A)(2) shall be deemed not to violate the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section.

F. This Section shall be effective for members of the system who complete any service under the system on or after July 1, 1995, with employers contributing to the system.

Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 97, §1, eff. May 5, 1998; Acts 2011, No. 399, §1, eff. July 1, 2011; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3520 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3520
Eligibility for appointment to department; physical examination
Status: in_force

A. Persons eligible for first appointment to the police department shall be between the ages of twenty-one and forty years at the time of such original appointment, and shall be subject to reemployment after the age of thirty-five years. No person shall be employed in the department without first submitting to a physical examination by the municipal physician. If not pronounced physically fit by the physician the applicant shall not under any conditions be eligible for benefits from the fund. The physician shall make a written report of each applicant examined to the commissioner of public safety and to the board immediately upon examination.

B. Persons eligible for first appointment to the police department shall be between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years at the time of such original appointment, and shall be subject to reemployment after the age of thirty-five years. No person shall be employed in the department without first submitting to a physical examination by the municipal physician. If not pronounced physically fit by the physician the applicant shall not under any conditions be eligible for benefits from the fund. The physician shall make a written report of each applicant examined to the commissioner of public safety and to the board immediately upon examination.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 248, §1; Acts 1968, No. 411, §1; Acts 1970, No. 638, §§1, 2; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2240 and R.S. 33:2240.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1444 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1444
Limitation on payment of benefits
Status: in_force

A.(1) Unless the member has elected otherwise on or before December 31, 1983, the entire benefit of a member shall be distributed over a period not longer than the longest of the following periods:

(a) The member's life.

(b) The life of the member's designated beneficiary or the joint and last survivor lives of the member and his designated beneficiary.

(c) The member's life expectancy.

(d) The joint and last survivor life expectancy of the member and his designated beneficiary.

(2) If the member is married and his spouse survives him, the designated beneficiary shall be his spouse. If a member dies after the commencement of his benefits, the remaining portion of his benefit shall be distributed at least as rapidly as before his death.

B.(1) If the member dies before his benefit has commenced, the remainder of such interest shall be distributed to the member's beneficiary within five years after the date of such member's death.

(2) Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply to any portion of a member's benefit which is payable to or for the benefit of a designated beneficiary or beneficiaries, over the life of or over the life expectancy of such beneficiary, so long as such distributions begin not later than one year after the date of the member's death, or, in the case of the member's surviving spouse, the date the member would have attained the age of seventy and one-half years. If the designated beneficiary is the member's surviving spouse and if the surviving spouse dies before the distribution of benefits commences, then Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall be applied as if the surviving spouse were the member. If the designated beneficiary is a child of the member, for purposes of satisfying the requirement of Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, any amount paid to such child shall be treated as if paid to the member's surviving spouse if such amount would become payable to such surviving spouse, if alive, upon the child's reaching age eighteen.

(3) Paragraph (1) of this Subsection shall not apply if the distribution of the member's interest has commenced and is for a term certain over a period permitted in Subsection A of this Section.

C. If a survivor benefit is payable to a specified person or persons or if a benefit is payable at death under an option elected pursuant to R.S. 11:1423, the member shall be considered to have designated such person as a designated beneficiary hereunder. If there is more than one such person, then the oldest such person shall be considered to have been so designated, or, if none, then the oldest person entitled to receive a survivor benefit shall be considered to have been so designated. The designation of a designated beneficiary hereunder shall not prevent payment to multiple beneficiaries but shall only establish the permitted period of payments.

D. Distributions from the system shall be made in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code, including the minimum distribution incidental benefit rules applicable thereunder. The board may promulgate rules in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq., to carry out the requirements of this Subsection, and the board may adopt provisions that amend the other provisions of this Section.

E.(1) A member's benefits shall commence to be paid on or before the required beginning date.

(2) The required beginning date shall be April first of the calendar year following the later of the calendar year in which the member attains seventy and one-half years of age, or the calendar year in which the employee retires.

(3) The board may promulgate rules in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq., regarding any change in the required beginning date necessary for compliance with federal tax-qualification requirements.

F. The provisions of this Section shall be effective July 1, 1997.

Acts 1997, No. 691, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 2011, No. 364, §1, eff. July 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2184 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2184
Preservation of rights
Status: in_force

The failure to re-enact all or any part of Subsections D, E, F and L of R.S. 11:2178 shall not affect the rights of the recipients to continue to receive the benefits presently being paid thereunder.

Added by Acts 1954, No. 239, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1460 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1331 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1331
Exemption from state income taxes; garnishment
Status: in_force

All retirement income payable to retirees and their beneficiaries shall be exempt from state income taxes. All retirement benefits payable to retirees shall be subject to garnishment or court-ordered assignment only as provided for in R.S. 11:292.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 243, §2; Acts 1986, No. 767, §6; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1442.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2007, No. 333, §1, eff. July 1, 2007.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:901.11 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 901.11
Reduction of monthly payments
Status: in_force

If the board of trustees of the teachers' retirement system of Louisiana finds that during any fiscal year the total amount of the benefits provided by this Sub-part exceeds the sum allocated or dedicated or appropriated by this Sub-part out of the state public school fund of the state of Louisiana to pay the cost of the benefits provided by this Sub-part, then the board of trustees shall reduce each monthly payment hereunder for each beneficiary of this Sub-part whose total payment exceeds the amount of one hundred fifty dollars per month by a proportionate percentage.

Added by Acts 1957, No. 27, §4. Redesignated from R.S. 17:719.4 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3505 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3505
Management of fund; salary deductions; authority of board; meetings
Status: in_force

A. The board shall have charge of the fund. The board shall assess each member of the police department an amount not to exceed six percent of his salary and shall be deducted monthly. This assessment is to be deposited by the treasurer of the fund in a depository chosen by the board and subject to the orders of the board.

B. The board shall make regulations for its government and hear and decide all applications for relief or pensions under this Subpart; its decision on applications shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review or reversal except by the board. The board shall keep a record of all its meetings and proceedings. The board shall meet at least once every three months and when called by the president or secretary.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 460, §1; Acts 1962, No. 236, §1; Acts 1976, No. 607, §1; Acts 1981, No. 320, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2225(A)(1) and (B) by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1345.9 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1345.9
Survivors' benefits for death other than in the line of duty
Status: in_force

The surviving spouse or children of any active member whose death occurs other than in the performance of his duties shall have the same pension rights as provided in R.S. 11:1323.

Acts 2010, No. 992, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Acts 2011, No. 368, §1, eff. July 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:901.32 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 901.32
Prior service credit; teachers entitled to receive
Status: in_force

The moneys dedicated by R.S. 11:901.28 shall further be used to provide prior service credit to any member of the teachers' retirement system of Louisiana:

(1) Who has served as a teacher in the public schools or state educational institutions of Louisiana for a minimum of a full session within the six-year period immediately preceding August 1, 1936.

(2) Who became a member of the system before July 1, 1940; and

(3) Who was not out of service for more than five consecutive years within the period beginning August 1, 1931, and ending with the date of enrollment as a member of the system. Provided, however, that to be eligible to receive the old age assistance provided in R.S. 11:901.29 (except those qualifying under sub-paragraph (6) thereof) or the disability payments, provided in R.S. 11:901.31 or the prior service credit herein provided, the teacher seeking such old age assistance, disability payments, or prior service credit as a member of the teachers' retirement system of Louisiana, must have either qualified for and been granted such old age assistance, disability payment or prior service credit under the provisions of Act 216 of the Legislature of Louisiana for the year 1940; or must have filed an application for the benefit provided by Act 216 of 1940 on or before November 15, 1941; and provided further that any teacher qualifying for benefits under the provisions of R.S. 11:901.29(6) in order to receive any benefit provided for in this Section, under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees of the teachers' retirement system of Louisiana shall adopt, shall make application to said board within one year from July 1, 1957 and shall file with the application a detailed and certified statement of all Louisiana service as a teacher for which he claims credit.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 425, §1; Acts 1954, No. 171, §2; Acts 1957, No. 8, §2; Redesignated from R.S. 17:744 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:265 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 265
Compensation of investment advisors
Status: in_force

Each board of trustees of the various public retirement systems, plans, or funds is hereby authorized, in requesting proposals for investment advisory services, to require that fees shall be quoted as a fixed fee, a fee based on market value of assets, or a performance fee.

Acts 1990, No. 172, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 42:717.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3514 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3514
Retirement for disability or length of service; benefit payments
Status: in_force

A. The board shall retire from service in the police department any member of the department found by a majority vote of the board to have acquired a permanent or temporary physical or mental disability while in the performance of his duties, as determined by the report of the department physician, and shall place the retired member on the pension or relief roll.

B. Upon written request any member of the department who has performed twenty years of service in the department, without regard to the age at which the member may have initially been appointed to the police department, also shall be retired and placed under pension or relief roll. In addition, any member of the department who has performed at least eighteen consecutive years of service in the department and has reached sixty-five years of age, upon his application and request therefor, shall be eligible for retirement and be placed on the pension or relief roll. The amount of the pension or relief shall be two-thirds of the highest average monthly salary for any continuous twelve month period of time worked prior to retirement, but shall not be less than one hundred dollars per month.

C. Pensions or relief provided for by this Section shall be paid in monthly installments to persons entitled thereto, except that in the case of any mentally incapacitated member, the pension or relief shall be paid monthly to his legal representative.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 245, §1; Acts 1954, No. 416, §1; Acts 1956, No. 137, §1; Acts 1962, No. 236, §1; Acts 1966, No. 148, §1; Acts 1972, No. 495, §1; Acts 1974, No. 219, §2; Acts 1976, No. 607, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2234(A), (B), and (D) by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:837 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 837
Overpayment of benefits; collection
Status: in_force

A. Effective January 1, 2006, the right to collect any benefit paid to an individual to whom the benefit was not due resulting from an administrative error by the system shall apply only to amounts paid during the thirty-six-month period immediately preceding the date notice of such error is sent to the member, except in the case of fraud.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section, if the individual receiving the payment committed a fraud against the system, the right to collect such fraudulent payment shall extend to the entire amount of overpayment obtained through fraud.

C. Repayment of any amount paid to an individual to whom the benefit was not due collected as provided in this Section shall be in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:192.

Acts 2006, No. 501, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1611 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1611
Prior service credit; determination
Status: in_force

A. Any person who becomes a member of the system within the first two years of its operation and who was employed by the state of Louisiana, or a parish of the state or a municipality of any parish of the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision or corporation of the state of Louisiana, including corporations operated jointly by the state and the federal government at any time preceding the establishment of the system, or who was employed by the federal government in a legislative, judicial, quasi-judicial, or law enforcement capacity; shall be entitled to prior service credit for all state, city, parish or federal service rendered prior to August 1, 1956, provided that within the first year of his membership he file a detailed statement of all service rendered by him as an employee prior to the date of the establishment of the system for which he claims credit. The two year provision for membership contained herein, shall not apply to those persons who elected not to become a member and who thereafter applied for membership, but they shall be governed by the provisions of R.S. 11:1602.

B. If, through error in law or fact by the board of trustees, any prior service to which a member is entitled shall not have been included in his prior service certificate, but which prior service shall have been claimed and included in the detailed statement of prior service filed by the member, this service shall be included in this prior service certificate at any time upon application therefor by the member.

C. In the computation of membership service or prior service under the provisions of this Chapter, a member shall receive pro rata service credit for any fractional years of credit, provided that no person shall receive less than the benefit accrued as of August 15, 1993.

D. In the computation of any retirement allowance or any annuity or benefit, any fractional period of service of less than one year shall be taken into account and a proportionate amount of such retirement allowance, annuity or benefit, shall be granted for any such fractional period of service.

E. No credit for membership service shall be allowed for any period of absence without compensation, nor shall more than one year of service be credited for all service rendered in any one fiscal year.

Added by Acts 1956, No. 56, §4(1), (2). Amended by Acts 1958, No. 158, §1; Acts 1979, No. 585, §3; Redesignated from R.S. 16:1031 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 234, §1, eff. June 1, 1993.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3015 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3015
Protection against fraud
Status: in_force

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 in any attempt to defraud such system as a result of such Part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the parish jail not exceeding twelve months, or both, such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. Should any change or error in the records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive, had the records been correct, the Board of Trustees shall correct such error and, as far as practicable, shall adjust the payment in such manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid.

Designated from Acts 1948, No. 459, §14 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:710.2 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 710.2
Employment of retirees; postsecondary institution critical shortages
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this Section shall apply to any retiree of the retirement system who retired on or before June 30, 2020, and who meets all of the following criteria:

(1) The retiree has been retired for at least twelve months.

(2) He did not retire based on a disability.

(3) He has at least thirty years of creditable service in the retirement system.

(4) He has attained at least age sixty-two.

(5) He is being employed to fill a position for an adjunct professor as defined in R.S. 11:710 and assigned the professional activities of instructing pupils in a nursing program at a public postsecondary education institution where a critical shortage exists.

B. A retiree to whom this Section applies shall not receive a benefit during the period of his reemployment as provided in this Section unless and until the institution's postsecondary education management board, the Board of Regents, and the board of trustees of the retirement system have received certification that a critical shortage exists. Prior to making such certification, the institution shall comply with the provisions of Subsection C of this Section.

C. In order to declare the existence of a critical shortage, a public postsecondary education institution shall cause to be prominently displayed a listing of positions to which this Section applies that are unfilled or that are filled by reemployed retirees on the websites of the institution, of the institution's management board, and of the Board of Regents.

D. During the period of his return to active service, the retiree and his employer institution shall make contributions to the retirement system as otherwise provided by law, but the retiree shall receive no additional service credit and shall not accrue any additional retirement benefits in the retirement system. Upon termination of active service, the retiree shall, upon application, be refunded the employee contributions paid since reemployment. The refund shall be without interest. The retirement system shall retain the employer contributions.

E. When any retiree covered by this Section returns to active service with an employer institution covered by the provisions of this Chapter, the employing institution shall, within thirty days thereafter, notify the board of trustees in writing of such employment and the date on which employment commenced. Upon termination, the institution shall provide the same notice. In addition, the employing institution shall also report to the retirement system within forty-five days after June thirtieth of each year, the names of all persons being paid by the employing institution and all persons having received a benefit pursuant to the provisions of this Section, along with such individuals' social security numbers, their positions, their designations as part-time or full-time, and the amount of their earnings during the previous fiscal year ending on June thirtieth of the reporting year. Additionally, the employing institution shall transmit a monthly contributions report pursuant to R.S. 11:888(A). Such monthly reports shall be transmitted within thirty days of the last day of each month and shall include the salary paid to each individual retiree reemployed under this Section. Should failure to give notice of return to active service or failure to report any other information required by this Section result in any payment being made in violation of this Section, the employing institution shall be liable to the system for the repayment of such amounts.

F. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to anyone reemployed by contract or corporate contract.

G. The provisions of this Section shall terminate July 1, 2027.

Acts 2022, No. 549, §1, eff. May 31, 2022; Acts 2022, No. 601, §1, eff. May 31, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1674 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1674
Selection of fiscal agents
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall approve the fiscal agency bank or banks selected by the state treasurer for the deposit of the funds and securities of this retirement system provided that no bank shall be selected unless the bank is a fiscal agent of the state. The funds and properties of the system held in any bank of the state shall be safeguarded by bonds or other securities acceptable for the protection of state deposits, the amount to be determined by the board of trustees.

Added by Acts 1956, No. 56, §7(5); Redesignated from R.S. 16:1084 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1804 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1804
Computation of disability benefits
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall award disability benefits to eligible members who have been officially certified as having a disability by the State Medical Disability Board. The disability benefit shall be determined as follows:

(1) Upon retirement caused by disability, a member of Plan B shall be paid a disability benefit equal to the lesser of:

(a) An amount equal to two percent of the member's final compensation multiplied by his years of creditable service, but not less than thirty percent of his final compensation, or

(b) An amount equal to what the member's normal retirement benefit would be, as based on the member's current final compensation, but assuming the member remained in continuous service until his earliest normal retirement age and using those retirement benefit computation factors which would be applicable to the member's normal retirement.

(2) Upon retirement caused by disability, a member may select any of the optional modes of benefit payments provided by R.S. 11:1757. The computation of any optional benefit payment shall be based upon the option factors the system utilizes for normal retirement and the ages of the member and the option beneficiary, projected to the member's earliest normal retirement age assuming the member remained in continuous service until that time.

Acts 1989, No. 68, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Redesignated from R.S. 33:7274 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 791, §1, eff. June 30, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 873, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:951.87 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 951.87
Return of accumulated contributions upon termination of employment; death of beneficiary
Status: in_force

A. Should a participant cease to be an employee except by death or retirement under the provisions of this Part, he shall be paid his accumulated contributions including regular interest standing to the credit of the participant in the annuity savings account.

B. Upon the proper proofs of the death of a participant in service there shall be paid to any person as he shall have nominated by written designation acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees, otherwise to his succession, the amount which would have been payable to him, had he ceased to be a participant as provided in the preceding paragraph.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:1127 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:559 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 559
Transfer of creditable service; purchase of credit for service
Status: in_force

Any judge or court officer enumerated in R.S. 11:553 who is a member of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System shall have the option of any or all of the following:

(1) Transferring to the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System all of his credit from any public retirement or pension system, fund, or plan maintained primarily for officers and employees of the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof, provided that he is not receiving a regular or disability benefit from the transferring retirement or pension system, fund, or plan. All transfers of creditable service authorized by this Section shall be made in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:143.

(2) Purchasing credit for service as a special investigator or prosecutor of any Louisiana court, provided such purchase does not cause a duplication of credit for such service. Any purchase made pursuant to this Section shall be made in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:158.

(3) Upgrading credit for services other than judicial service to credit for judicial service by purchase made in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:158.

Added by Acts 1976, No. 518, §1. Acts 1983, No. 674, §1. Acts 1986, No. 440, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 13:17 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 1177, §1; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 10, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1317 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1317
Pension of children of deceased employee and children of deceased retired employees; certain members hired on or before December 31, 2010
Status: in_force

A.(1) This Section shall apply to any employee whose first employment making him eligible for membership in one of the state systems occurred on or before December 31, 2010. If there is no surviving spouse to receive the pension due a spouse of any police employee or retired employee under R.S. 11:1320 or 1322, or if the spouse has remarried and forfeited his or her benefit under R.S. 11:1321, the minor children of the deceased employee or deceased retired employee, if any, shall receive a monthly pension equal to the greater of:

(a) Sixty percent of the average salary of the deceased police employee; or

(b) The pension that would have been received by the surviving spouse under R.S. 11:1320 or 1322 or was being received under R.S. 11:1321.

(2) The monthly benefit received by the surviving children pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection shall be divided equally among the surviving children.

B. As each minor child reaches eighteen years of age, or twenty-three years of age if a student, he shall receive no further benefits.

Amended by Acts 1981, No. 272, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1432 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2001, No. 235, §1, eff. June 1, 2001; Acts 2010, No. 992, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:102.3 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 102.3
Priority excess return allocations; Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System
Status: in_force

A. For purposes of this Section, the following shall apply:

(1) "Priority amount" shall mean the maximum amount of system returns in excess of the system's actuarially assumed rate of return that may be applied to the oldest outstanding positive amortization base, regardless of whether actual returns that equal or exceed the maximum are available, and shall equal:

(a) For the June 30, 2015 valuation, fifteen million dollars.

(b) For each valuation thereafter, the prior year's priority amount increased by the percentage increase in the system's actuarial value of assets for the prior year, if any.

(2) "Priority allocation" shall mean the actual returns available for application to the oldest outstanding positive amortization base.

(3) For any valuation in which the oldest outstanding positive amortization base is liquidated without using the full amount of the priority allocation, the remaining amount from that year's priority allocation after liquidation of the oldest base shall be applied to the next oldest base.

(4) In no event shall one year's priority amount be less than the previous year's priority amount.

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of Paragraph (6) of this Subsection, effective for the June thirtieth valuation following the fiscal year in which the system first attains a funded percentage of eighty or more pursuant to R.S. 11:1145.1 and for each valuation thereafter, the net remaining liability of the amortization base to which the funds are applied shall be reamortized with annual level-dollar payments calculated as provided in R.S. 11:102 over the remainder of the amortization period originally established for that amortization base.

(6) Beginning with Fiscal Year 2019-2020 and every fifth fiscal year thereafter, the remaining liability net of all payments made since the last reamortization shall be reamortized with annual level-dollar payments calculated as provided in R.S. 11:102 over the remainder of the amortization period originally established for that amortization base.

(7) Except as provided in Paragraphs (5) and (6) of this Subsection, the net remaining liability of the amortization base to which the funds are applied shall not be reamortized after such application.

B.(1) Effective for the June 30, 2015 valuation and for each valuation thereafter, if the system's investment experience for the fiscal year exceeds the system's actuarially assumed rate of return, the system shall apply the priority allocation to the oldest outstanding positive amortization base of the system, excluding any amortization base established to amortize a liability pursuant to R.S. 11:102(B)(2)(a) or (3)(c) until all such bases are completely liquidated. After the final base is completely liquidated, the assets shall be treated as provided in R.S. 11:102(B)(4).

(2) If there are multiple positive bases of the same age and the same duration, all such bases shall be collapsed into a single base for purposes of this Subsection.

(3) If there are multiple positive bases of the same age but of different durations, the oldest outstanding positive amortization base with the shortest remaining amortization period shall be treated as the "oldest" for purposes of this Subsection.

C. Effective for the June 30, 2014 valuation, if the system's investment experience for the fiscal year exceeds the system's actuarially assumed rate of return, the system shall apply the excess investment experience returns, up to a maximum of the first seven and one-half million dollars, to the oldest outstanding positive amortization base of the system, excluding any amortization base established to amortize a liability pursuant to R.S. 11:102(B)(2)(a) or (3)(c) without reamortization of such base.

Acts 2014, No. 399, §1, eff. June 30, 2014; Acts 2016, No. 95, §1, eff. June 30, 2016.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2179 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2179
Benefit limits
Status: in_force

A. The retirement benefit of any member of the pension and relief fund shall not exceed the maximum benefit allowed to public safety employees under Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. For purposes of this Section, any increase in the maximum benefit which is effected in accordance with Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code shall be included regardless of whether such increase is effected by an Act of Congress.

B. The retirement benefit of any member of the pension and relief fund shall be adjusted upward or downward based on the retirement age of such member to the extent required by Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

C. The retirement benefit of any member of the pension and relief fund shall be adjusted for years of service as required by Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; however, if computing any adjustment under the provisions of state law would produce a result which does not violate Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, then the adjustment provided by state law shall apply.

D. If a member is a participant in more than one defined benefit pension or retirement system, plan, or fund maintained by the state of Louisiana, its agencies, or its political subdivisions, and the member's benefit, considered in the aggregate, would violate the maximum permissible benefit under Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, then the benefits payable by the respective pension or retirement systems, plans, or funds shall be ratably reduced so that the aggregate benefit payable to such member shall not exceed the maximum benefit permissible under Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. No reduction shall be made to the extent that payments are made from a qualified excess benefit plan maintained by an employer.

E. A benefit payable to a member shall not be deemed to exceed the maximum benefits provided in this Section if the benefit is payable pursuant to a Qualified Governmental Excess Benefit Arrangement as provided in Section 415(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and as implemented by R.S. 11:2180.5.

Acts 1990, No. 62, §1; Acts 1991, No. 458, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1456.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2006, No. 526, §1, eff. June 22, 2006.

NOTE: See Acts 2006, No. 526, §2, relative to remedial nature of Act and effect of Act.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1146 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1146
Supplemental benefits; appropriations
Status: in_force

A. In addition to all other benefits provided by law or otherwise, and without any effect whatsoever on same, commencing January 1, 1976, the board of trustees shall provide, without any retroactive effect, from funds appropriated in accordance with Subsection B hereof, and only upon such appropriation, a supplementary benefit to all retirants, their beneficiaries and survivors who were receiving benefits from the system on July 1, 1973, of one dollar per month for each year of membership service. If the retiree or his beneficiary is receiving a benefit under an option, the benefit shall be reduced by the option selected at retirement. The board of trustees, under such rules and regulations as it shall adopt, not inconsistent herewith, shall administer the benefits provided by this Section.

B. The supplemental benefits provided by Subsection A hereof shall be paid, in each year, only if and to the extent that funds for the purpose are appropriated therefor.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 374, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:913.2 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2052 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2052
Persons not eligible for membership
Status: in_force

No elected or appointed official of this state or of any parish thereof who under any provisions of the constitution or laws of this state is subject to retirement with pay is eligible for membership in this system.

Acts 1954, No. 215, §3(36). Amended by Acts 1976, No. 526, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 18:1682 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2003 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2003
Cash deposit for payment of benefits
Status: in_force

For the purpose of meeting disbursements for pensions, annuities, and other payments, there may be kept available cash, not exceeding ten percent of the total amount in the several funds of the retirement system, on deposit in one or more banks or trust companies of the state of Louisiana organized under the laws of the state of Louisiana or of the United States, provided that the sum on deposit in any one bank or trust company shall not exceed ten percent of the paid up capital and surplus of such bank or trust company.

Acts 1979, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Redesignated from R.S. 33:6213 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2022, No. 248, §2, eff. June 30, 2022.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:921 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 921
Creation of plan
Status: in_force

A. There is established an optional retirement plan for the following classes of employees covered by this Subpart who are eligible for membership in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana:

(1) The academic and administrative employees of public postsecondary education institutions.

(2) The employees of the Board of Regents, Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System, Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges, or their successors, and any other constitutionally established board which manages public postsecondary education institutions.

B. Any person covered by the provisions of Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section shall be required to pay the annual actuarial cost of participating in the optional retirement plan.

Acts 1989, No. 90, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:771 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88, §1, eff. July 1, 1998; Acts 2025, No. 47, §1, eff. July 1, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1303 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1303
Joint administration with other systems
Status: in_force

The board of trustees may take such actions as it deems necessary or appropriate to provide for the joint administration of the retirement system and the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System; however, no action shall be taken which would impair the integrity of the board of trustees of each of the systems or the integrity of the funds and investments of each of the systems. The boards may, pursuant to the authority herein, appoint the same secretary-treasurer or secretary-manager, any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding. Funds appropriated for the administration of each system shall be used for such purpose and in the category of expenditures appropriated but otherwise may be transferred to accomplish the purposes of this Section subject to the approval by the legislature, the Legislative Budget Committee, or its successor, or the division of administration or its commissioner. The board shall prepare and submit to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget an annual budget for estimated costs of operating the system for each succeeding fiscal year. This budget shall be subject to approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 743, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1422.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2004, No. 802, §1, eff. July 8, 2004.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3474 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3474
Separation from service
Status: in_force

A. In the event a member of the said Fire Department shall be laid off, voluntarily or involuntarily, for any cause for a period not exceeding ninety days, he shall continue during said lay-off periods to be entitled to the benefits of this Part.

B. If any member or members of the said Fire Department should be discharged from the service for reasons of economy or reduction in the force due to no fault of said member and later should be reemployed by the said Fire Department, his rights to the privileges and benefits of this Part shall continue as from the date he was discharged, without any loss of rights and privileges due to such period of absence from the service.

Designated from Acts 1966, No. 56, §14 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1767 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1767
Limitations on benefits
Status: in_force

A.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this system to the contrary, no member shall receive a benefit in any year in excess of the sum of the maximum employer-financed benefit and the member-financed benefit.

(a) The maximum employer-financed benefit shall equal the sum of ninety thousand dollars, except that it may exceed that sum if the excess is caused by adjustments made pursuant to this Section.

(b) The maximum employer-financed benefit for the year 1999, as adjusted, shall equal one hundred thirty thousand dollars. The member-financed benefit is the annual benefit that can be provided by annuitizing the member's after-tax accumulated contributions.

(2) Any benefit reduction required by this Section shall, to the extent possible, reduce the monthly pension to which the member would otherwise have been entitled and shall not affect the member's Deferred Retirement Option Plan account.

B.(1)(a) If the annual benefit begins before the member attains age sixty-two, the ninety thousand dollar limit described in Subparagraph A(1)(a) of this Section, as adjusted, shall be reduced in a manner prescribed by the United States secretary of the treasury.

(b) The adjustment authorized by Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph may not reduce the member's annual benefit below seventy-five thousand dollars, if the member's benefit begins at or after age fifty-five, or the actuarial equivalent of seventy-five thousand dollars beginning at age fifty-five if benefits begin before age fifty-five.

(2)(a) If the annual benefit begins after the member attains age sixty-five, the ninety thousand dollar limit set forth in Subparagraph A(1)(a) of this Section, as adjusted, shall be increased so that it is the actuarial equivalent of the ninety thousand dollar limit at age sixty-five. The ninety thousand dollar limit on annual benefits, but not the seventy-five thousand dollar limit set forth in Subparagraph B(1)(b) of this Section, shall be adjusted annually as provided by Section 415(d) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and the regulations prescribed by the United States secretary of the treasury to reflect cost-of-living adjustments.

(b) The annual adjusted limit, set forth in Subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph, is effective as of January first of each calendar year and is applicable to benefits commencing during that calendar year. As a result of a cost-of-living increase, a benefit that had been limited by the provisions of this Section in a previous year may be increased with respect to future payments to the lesser of the new limit or the amount of benefit that would have been payable from this system without regard to the provisions of this Section.

(3) Annual benefits may not be paid in an amount greater than the accrued benefit under the plan. The maximum benefit limit, set forth in Subsection A of this Section, shall apply to a single-life annuity. If the benefit is payable in a form other than a single-life annuity, the maximum limit shall apply to the pension that is the actuarial equivalent of such single-life annuity, using an applicable interest rate and mortality table as prescribed by the United States Internal Revenue Service; however, the limit shall not be reduced for any benefit received as a disability retirement allowance or any payments received by the beneficiaries, survivors, or estate of a member as a result of the death of the member.

C. An annual benefit may be paid to any member in excess of the limit otherwise allowed in Subsection A of this Section if the annual benefit derived from the employer contributions under this and all other qualified plans of the employer subject to the limitations of Section 415(b) of the United States Internal Revenue Code does not, in the aggregate, exceed ten thousand dollars for the plan year or for any prior year; and the member has not at any time participated in a defined contribution plan maintained by the employer. For purposes of this Subsection, a member's own contributions to the system are not considered a separate defined contribution plan maintained by the employer.

D.(1) If a member is or has been a participant in one or more defined contribution plans maintained by the employer, the sum of the member's contributions paid to this system and any other qualified defined benefit plans of the employer and the annual additions under such defined contribution plan or plans may not exceed the lesser of twenty-five percent of the member's earned compensation or thirty thousand dollars, as adjusted by the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

(2) The sum of the "defined benefit plan fraction" and the "defined contribution plan fraction", as those terms are defined in Section 415 of the United States Internal Revenue Code, for any plan year in which Section 415 of the United States Internal Revenue Code is in effect, may not exceed one, for any calendar year in which the limits of Section 415(d) of the United States Internal Revenue Code are in effect and enforced by the United States Internal Revenue Service. If the sum of the defined benefit plan fraction and the defined contribution plan fraction exceeds one, in any such year for any member, or if the benefits under this plan and one or more other defined benefit plans of the employer would otherwise exceed the maximum employer-financed benefit, and the administrator of the other plan or plans does not reduce the contributions or benefits under such other plan, the employer-financed benefit payable by this system shall be reduced to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with the limitations provided in Section 415 of the United States Internal Revenue Code.

E.(1) If the United States Congress or the United States Internal Revenue Service, or both, later cause to be amended, any laws, regulations, or other guidelines pertaining to Section 415 of the United States Internal Revenue Code in order to permit higher service retirement benefits, then, for any retired member who had previously had a benefit reduced because it exceeded the limits set forth in this Section, the Board shall recalculate the retired member's benefit to be the smaller of either:

(a) The unreduced benefit based on this system's service retirement benefit formula in effect on the date the member retired.

(b) The maximum permissible benefit calculated under such amended laws or regulations.

(2) If a retroactive change is permissible, the board shall pay the retired member in a single payment an amount equal to the difference between the adjusted higher monthly benefit and the reduced benefit for the number of months the member has received the reduced benefit. However, no member shall receive any benefit under this Section to the extent that he has received a distribution with respect to such benefit from an excess benefit plan as set forth in Part VIII of this Chapter.

Acts 1999, No. 398, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2074 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2074
Disability retirement
Status: in_force

A. Eligibility for disability benefits, procedures for application for disability benefits, procedures for the certification of continuing eligibility for disability benefits, the authority of the board of trustees to modify disability benefits, and procedures governing the restoration to active service of an employee who formerly had a disability are specifically described and provided for in R.S. 11:201 through 224.

B.(1) The board of trustees shall award disability benefits to eligible members who have been officially certified as having a disability by the State Medical Disability Board. The disability benefit shall be determined as follows:

(a) Upon retirement for disability, a member shall receive a retirement allowance if eligible therefor; otherwise, he shall receive a disability benefit which shall be a product of the retirement accrual rate determined pursuant to R.S. 11:2071 multiplied by the member's average compensation further multiplied by creditable service as determined to be the lesser of:

(i) Creditable service earned by the date of the disability application, but totalling not less than fifteen years.

(ii) For projected continued service to age sixty.

(b) In no case shall the disability benefit provided herein exceed two-thirds of earnable compensation.

(2) Any amount received as a compensable wage or a lump sum settlement under the provisions of the workers' compensation laws shall be applied as an offset against benefits received under the provisions of this Subsection, under rules prescribed by the board. The board shall have complete discretion and the authority to determine the extent and application of the provisions of this Subsection.

(3) Members who qualify for retirement under disability may select an Option 2 or 3 as specified in R.S. 11:2076 with their spouse as beneficiary. Such option factors shall be the same as those utilized for regular retirement and shall be based on the age that the member and spouse would have been had the member survived, continued in service, and then retired on the earliest normal retirement date.

Acts 1954, No. 215, §5(3). Amended by Acts 1978, No. 727, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Acts 1981, No. 228, §1; Acts 1983, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 1, §6; Acts 1989, No. 202, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 18:1733 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2012, No. 526, §1, eff. July 1, 2012; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3639 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3639
Portion of proceeds from sale of drivers' licenses paid into fund
Status: in_force

The official, department, board, commission, or agency charged with collecting proceeds from the sale and issuance of certificates or other evidence of competency or authority to bona fide residents of the city of New Orleans to operate motor vehicles on the streets of the city of New Orleans, particularly drivers' and chauffeurs' licenses, and whether or not the same are levied and collected by authority of the City Council of the city of New Orleans or the state of Louisiana, or any department, board, commission, or agency of the city or state, shall pay to the board monthly the lesser of:

(1) Fifty percent of such proceeds; or

(2) The amount necessary to pay the operating expenses of the fund not covered as provided in R.S. 11:3635.1(B)(3).

Redesignated from R.S. 33:2287 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2004, No. 793, §1, eff. July 8, 2004.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1169 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1169
Records and other information; board's duty to keep; financial reports
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall keep in convenient form such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the various funds of the retirement system and for checking the experience of the system.

It shall keep a record of all of its proceedings which shall be open to public inspection. It shall publish annually a report showing the fiscal transactions of the retirement system for the preceding fiscal year, the amount of the accumulated cash and securities of the system, and the last balance sheet showing the financial condition of the system by means of an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities thereof.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:937 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1136 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1136
Conversion of leave to membership credit
Status: in_force

A. When a member applies for service retirement, his accrued annual leave and unused sick leave accumulated while a member of this system or any other funded state retirement system may be added to his membership service for the purpose of computing any retirement benefits to which he is entitled.

B. Only accrued annual leave and unused sick leave accumulated up to the amount permitted all employees by the employing school board and/or state agency and only accrued annual leave and unused sick leave in excess of the amount for which payment is received and for which accurate verifiable records have been maintained shall be added to his membership service.

C. Unused sick and accrued annual leave shall not be used to make a member eligible for retirement.

D. Unused sick leave and unused annual leave which converts to less than one-tenth of one year shall not be used in the computation of benefits.

Added by Acts 1971, No. 166, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:903.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 561, §1; Acts 2003, No. 642, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:951.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 951.1
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this Part, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context.

(1) "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all regular contributions, plus regular interest thereon, placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity savings account.

(2) "Actuarial equivalent" means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted by the board of trustees plus regular interest.

(3) "Annuity" means annual payments for life, payable in equal monthly installments, derived from the accumulated contributions placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity reserve account.

(4) "Annuity reserve" means the present value of all payments to be made on account of an annuity or benefit in lieu of any annuity computed upon the basis of such mortality tables accepted by the board of trustees, plus regular interest.

(5) "Beneficiary" means any person in receipt of a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or other benefits provided for in this Part.

(6) "Board of trustees" means and includes the members of the board of trustees of the retirement system.

(7) "Creditable service" means prior service plus subsequent service for which credit is allowable as provided for in this Part.

(8) "Earnable compensation" means the full rate of the compensation that would be payable to a participant if he worked the full normal working time during the year. In cases of doubt, the board of trustees shall determine what constitutes the "earnable compensation" of a participant.

(9) "Employee" means any person regularly employed in any capacity under the control of the Orleans Parish School Board who is not a teacher or whose legal employment does not require the holding of a teacher's certificate, including employees of the public school lunch department, all skilled and unskilled employees of the maintenance department, managers, custodians, subcustodians, and others who are not temporarily employed, and are paid out of funds under the control of the Orleans Parish School Board, who are not now eligible for membership in any other retirement system created or established by the State of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions.

(10) "Medical board" means the board of physicians provided for in this Part.

(11) "Normal service retirement age" means age sixty.

(12) "Participant" means any employee who is entitled to the beneficial provisions of this retirement system.

(13) "Pension" means annual payments for life, payable in equal monthly installments, derived from money provided by the Orleans Parish School Board and other amounts accumulated in the pension accumulation account as provided for in this Part.

(14) "Pension reserve" means the present value of all payments to be made on account of any pension or benefit in lieu of any pension computed upon the basis of mortality tables adopted by the board of trustees, plus regular interest.

(15) "Prior service" means service rendered by an employee prior to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system for which credit is allowable as provided in this Part.

(16) "Regular contributions" means the contributions deducted from the compensation of a participant subsequent to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system as required by this Part and placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity savings account.

(17) "Regular interest" means interest compounded annually at such rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees.

(18) "Retirement" means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance allowable under the provisions of this Part.

(19) "Retirement allowance" means the sum of the annuity and the pension, or any other benefits payable in lieu thereof.

(20) "Retirement system" means the corporation known as the Orleans Parish School Employees' Retirement System established in R.S. 11:951.2.

(21) "Service" means service rendered by an employee as herein defined.

(22) "Subsequent service" means service rendered by an employee subsequent to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system and while a participant in this retirement system.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:1011 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:923 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 923
Administration
Status: in_force

The Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana or any successor shall provide for the administration and maintenance of the optional retirement plan.

Acts 1989, No. 90, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 17:773 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2115 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2115
Private interests of trustees and employees in financial operation of system prohibited
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise herein provided, no trustee and no employee of the board of trustees shall have any direct interest in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board of trustees, nor as such receive any pay or emolument for his service. No trustee or employee of the board shall, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent in any manner use the same, except to make such current and necessary payments as are authorized by the board of trustees; nor shall any trustee or employee of the board of trustees become an endorser or surety or in any manner an obligor for moneys loaned or borrowed from the board of trustees.

Acts 1954, No. 215, §7(6); Redesignated from R.S. 18:1795 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3641 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3641
Investment of funds
Status: in_force

The board may from time to time invest the avails of the fund, in whole or in part. The investment shall be made in bonds of the United States, or in bonds of the state, or in bonds of the city of New Orleans, principal and interest of which are payable out of an ad valorem tax.

Redesignated from R.S. 33:2289 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1341 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1341
Establishment of excess benefit plan
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a separate, unfunded, nonqualified excess benefit plan containing the terms and provisions set forth in this Part and intended to be a qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement, as defined in Section 415(m)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Acts 2003, No. 876, §1, eff. July 1, 2003.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3516 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3516
Death benefits
Status: in_force

A. On and after September 11, 1981, if a member of a police department dies while in police service, while on or off official duty, or while receiving a pension, and leaves a child or children under eighteen years of age, or a child or children who are under twenty-two years of age and who are full-time students at an accredited institution of higher learning or at an accredited trade or vocational school, or a widow, or a dependent mother, these survivors shall be paid as follows:

(1) Each child who is under eighteen years of age or who is under twenty-two years of age and enrolled as a full-time student at an accredited institution of higher learning or trade or vocational school: one hundred fifty dollars per month.

(2) A widow: four hundred dollars per month for as long as she remains unmarried.

(3) A dependent mother: one hundred dollars per month.

B. The benefits provided for in this Section shall be paid to all beneficiaries, including those whose rights to receive these benefits accrued prior to September 11, 1981, but otherwise without any retroactive effect.

C.(1) With respect to the police pension and relief fund for the city of Bogalusa, child or children as referred to in this Section shall include, regardless of age, any child who has a physical and/or mental disability and the child shall receive benefits throughout life if medical and/or psychological information indicates the child has a total and permanent disability.

(2) If, however, medical or psychological information indicates that the child with a disability can benefit from specialized training in order to be rendered self supporting, then the child will receive benefits so long as he is actively enrolled in a specialized school or training program until such time as the child is certified as being qualified to engage in gainful employment.

(3) The board of trustees may demand at reasonable intervals that such child submit to a medical and/or pyschological examination for current evaluation, subject to the penalty of all monthly payments being suspended until submission to examination within fifteen days after request.

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 460, §2; Acts 1970, No. 489, §1; Acts 1972, No. 495, §2; Acts 1981, No. 577, §1; Acts 1984, No. 860, §1, eff. upon approval of the City Council of Bogalusa (approved Jan. 10, 1984); Redesignated from R.S. 33:2236 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1162 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1162
Members of board of trustees; appointment or election; terms of office; vacancies; compensation
Status: in_force

A. The board shall consist of the following trustees:

(1) President of the Louisiana School Bus Operators' Association, ex officio.

(2) A member of the House Committee on Retirement appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, or the member's designee.

(3) Chairman of the Retirement Committee of the Senate, ex officio, or his designee.

(4) The secretary of state, ex officio, or his designee.

(5) The state treasurer, ex officio, or his designee. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 49:307.1, the treasurer may name any person as his designee to this board.

(6) The commissioner of administration, ex officio, or his designee.

(7)(a) Four members of the system shall be elected by the members of the retirement system for a term of four years each, according to such rules and regulations as the board of trustees shall adopt to govern such elections. Except as otherwise provided in this Paragraph, each board member shall be a resident of the district represented. The districts will elect a member for a four-year term with the elections staggered so as to elect one member each year. Participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan shall not cause a member to be ineligible for candidacy in an election for the active member position on the board of trustees. Any member of this system who is elected to serve as a representative of the active members on the board of trustees and who, after such election, either commences participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan or retires shall not have his term of office as a trustee affected by either of those events.

(b) Beginning March 1, 1997, and until December 31, 2008, the districts shall be composed of the following parishes:

(i) District 1: Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, and Terrebonne.

(ii) District 2: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Lafayette, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.

(iii) District 3: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, DeSoto, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Red River, Richland, Tensas, Union, Webster, West Carroll, and Winn.

(iv) District 4: Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Sabine, St. Landry, St. Mary, Vermilion, and Vernon.

(c) Each member elected pursuant to this Paragraph who takes office on or after January 1, 2009, shall be elected from districts composed as provided in this Subparagraph. Each member serving on December 31, 2008, who was elected to represent a district as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph shall represent the district as provided in this Subparagraph having the same number designation as the district as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph from which the member was elected until the expiration of his term of office, whether or not he is a resident of the district as provided in this Subparagraph. Each successor of a member serving on December 31, 2008, who was elected to represent a district as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph shall be elected from the district as provided in this Subparagraph having the same number designation and shall be a resident of the district as provided in this Subparagraph. On January 1, 2009, and thereafter, the districts shall be composed of the following parishes:

(i) District 1: Assumption, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, and Terrebonne.

(ii) District 2: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.

(iii) District 3: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, Webster, and West Carroll.

(iv) District 4: Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, DeSoto, Evangeline, Grant, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, St. Landry, Vermilion, Vernon, and Winn.

(8) Two retired members elected at large by the retirees of the retirement system, provided the members' terms of office are for the same duration, but staggered so that the beginning and ending years of each member's term are not on the same year, and the member's terms and elections shall be governed according to rules and regulations adopted by the board of trustees.

B. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a trustee, the vacancy may be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the office was previously filled or the board of trustees may appoint a member or service retiree to fill the unexpired term.

C. As compensation for their services as members of the board, each and every trustee thereof shall be paid thirty-five dollars for each day said trustee is in attendance at any meeting of the board or a committee meeting set by the board and, in addition thereto, shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred through services on the board.

Amended by Acts 1961, No. 39, §1; Acts 1962, No. 136, §1; Acts 1964, No. 49, §2; Acts 1974, No. 248, §3; Redesignated from R.S. 17:932 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 598, §1, eff. March 1, 1994; Acts 1993, No. 758, §1, eff. March 1, 1994; Acts 1993, No. 855, §1, eff. March 1, 1994; Acts 1993, No. 862, §1, eff. March 1, 1994; Acts 1993, No. 929, §1, eff. March 1, 1994; Acts 1997, No. 6, §1, eff. May 9, 1997; Acts 1997, No. 625, §1, eff. July 3, 1997, retroactive to March 1, 1997; Acts 1999, No. 52, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1348, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 264, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2008, No. 80, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 113, §1, eff. June 30, 2012; Acts 2016, No. 621, §1, eff. June 17, 2016.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3377 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3377
Retirement for nonservice connected disability; method of establishing pension
Status: in_force

A. If any member of the fire department acquires a total physical or mental disability and becomes incapacitated to perform his duties, and the disability is not the direct result of a service-incurred injury or illness, then, upon application filed by the member in accordance with R.S. 11:3376, the board of trustees, by a two-thirds majority vote of its members, shall determine whether or not the member shall be retired for disability. The procedure to establish the disability and to determine the continuance thereof shall be the same as that prescribed in R.S. 11:3376. The amount of the pension to be received by any member retired in accordance with the provisions of this Section shall be based on the following schedule:

(1) If the member with a disability has performed faithful service in the fire department for a period of ten years or less, he shall receive a pension in the amount of thirty percent of his average compensation during the last year of service immediately preceding the date of establishing his disability in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

(2) If the member with a disability has performed faithful service in the fire department for a period of more than ten years, but not more than fifteen years, he shall receive a pension in the amount of forty percent of his average compensation during the last year of service immediately preceding the date of establishing his disability in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

(3) If the member with a disability has performed faithful service in the fire department for a period of more than fifteen years, he shall receive a pension in the amount of fifty percent of his average compensation during the last year of service immediately preceding the date of establishing his disability in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

B. All of the penalties prescribed in R.S. 11:3376 for failure of such member to submit to preliminary and periodic examinations by the department physician, or by any other doctor or specialist, or both, after being ordered by the board to report for such examinations, shall apply with the same force and effect in the case of members claiming disability under the provisions of this Section.

C. All provisions of R.S. 11:3376 with reference to restoration to duty of a member previously retired, are likewise applicable to members retired under this Section, and the period of retirement under this Section shall not be counted in determining the member's pension rights and eligibility for retirement in the ordinary course.

D. Benefits payable in accordance with this Section shall in no way affect the rights of the pensioner as granted by any other statute.

Added by Acts 1962, No. 403, §2. Amended by Acts 1969, No. 120, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2113.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2013, No. 234, §1, eff. June 12, 2013; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:951.12 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 951.12
Election of members of board, procedure
Status: in_force

The first board of trustees shall be elected as follows: within sixty days after the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system, the Orleans Parish School Board shall elect the three of its members, who are to serve as members of the board of trustees; these three members, with the superintendent of the Orleans Parish School Board shall constitute an election committee; within the next sixty days the election committee shall conduct an election for the five members from among the participants to serve on the board of trustees; this election shall be by secret ballot of the participants, each ballot listing five names representing choices for membership on the board of trustees; the election committee shall examine and count the ballots giving credit for each vote received by a participant, and the two receiving the largest number of votes shall be elected to serve until the regular election in the January following the expiration of their fifth year; the two receiving the next largest number of votes shall be elected to serve until the regular election in the January following the expiration of their third year; and the one receiving the next largest number of votes shall be elected to serve until the regular election in the January following the expiration of his first year.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:1032 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:951.45 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 951.45
Disposition of accumulated contributions upon retirement of employee
Status: in_force

Upon the retirement of a participant, his accumulated contributions shall be transferred from the annuity savings account to the annuity reserve account.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:1075 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3550 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3550
Bossier City; optional benefits
Status: in_force

A. In lieu of service retirement benefits as provided by R.S. 11:3548 and survivor benefits as provided by R.S. 11:3553, any active member of the police retirement plan of Bossier City, who retires on or after October 1, 1988, may elect to participate in a modified benefit plan in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

B. The modified benefits selected shall be actuarially equivalent to the service retirement benefit to which the member would otherwise be entitled under R.S. 11:3548, and the survivor benefit the surviving spouse would otherwise be entitled to under R.S. 11:3553.

C. The election shall be made, prior to the first payment of unmodified benefits becoming due, in accordance with rules and regulations of the board of trustees.

D.(1) The member may elect one of the following optional benefit plans:

(a)(i) Upon the member's death, in the same manner as the member was receiving benefits, the surviving spouse shall begin to receive an amount equal to the payments which were being made to the member.

(ii) Upon the member's death, in the same manner as the member was receiving benefits, the surviving spouse shall begin to receive an amount equal to the payments which were being made to the member provided that if the designated beneficiary predeceases the retiree, the retiree's reduced benefit shall change to the maximum benefit effective on the first day of the next month following notification of the death of the designated beneficiary.

(b)(i) Upon the member's death, in the same manner as the member was receiving benefits, the surviving spouse shall begin to receive an amount equal to one-half of the payments which were being made to the member.

(ii) Upon the member's death, in the same manner as the member was receiving benefits, the surviving spouse shall begin to receive an amount equal to one-half of the payments which were being made to the member, provided that if the designated beneficiary predeceases the retiree, the retiree's reduced benefit shall change to the maximum benefit effective on the first day of the next month following notification of the death of the designated beneficiary.

(2) These payments shall continue for as long as the surviving spouse remains unmarried.

(3) If an option is selected under this Subsection and the retiree's spouse was designated as the beneficiary, and a judgment of divorce is rendered with respect to the retiree and the spouse, and, in connection therewith, the spouse, irrevocably, by court order, relinquishes the spouse's survivorship rights under the option originally selected by the retiree, the originally selected option shall be considered revoked and the retiree shall be considered as retired under the maximum benefit, subject to reduction as hereinafter set forth, and without affording the retiree the right to select an option under which the retiree could designate a new beneficiary, and the benefits payable to the retiree shall be increased to the amount the retiree would have received had the retiree selected the maximum benefit, adjusted for any cost-of-living increase granted to the retiree, less any amount required as a result of such change in retirement status to render the new benefit to be the actuarial equivalent of the maximum benefit. The retiree shall be required to reimburse the system, by way of a one time deduction from the retiree's next benefit check, the reasonable cost incurred by the system to have these calculations made. The retiree shall be required to contractually hold the system harmless in the event that the former spouse ever successfully asserts a property right relative hereto which has any adverse effect upon the system. It shall be the responsibility of the retiree to notify the system of these circumstances, to present satisfactory evidence of same, and to request the recomputation of benefits. Adjustment of benefits under this Subsection shall not be retroactive, and shall be effective on the first day of the next month following official approval of the application for recomputation of benefits.

E.(1) In the event of the death, prior to retirement, of an active member, with credit in the plan for at least twenty years, the surviving spouse shall receive, in lieu of survivor benefits as provided in R.S. 11:3553, eighty percent of the benefit to which the member would have been entitled had the member been eligible to retire on the date of death.

(2) These payments shall continue for as long as the surviving spouse remains unmarried.

Acts 1988, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 22, §1, eff. Oct. 27, 1988; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2234.3 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 550, §1, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 1995, No. 606, §1.

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La. Rev. Stat. § 11:264.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 264.1
Liabilities; discretionary control
Status: in_force

Legislators, state officials, system attorneys, accountants, and actuaries shall not be considered fiduciaries unless they exercise discretionary control over the management or administration of the system or some authority or control over system assets.

Acts 1992, No. 1046, §1, eff. July 1, 1993.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:565 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 565
Credit for service with Legal Aid Bureau
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who is a participant in the retirement plan maintained for judges and officers of the court within the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System shall be eligible to receive nonjudicial credit for all service rendered as a full-time employee of either the Legal Aid Bureau of New Orleans, Louisiana, or the Capital Area Legal Services Corporation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In order to obtain this credit, the member shall make application therefor on or before January 1, 2003, and furnish to the board of trustees a detailed statement of all service for which credit is claimed in such form as the board may require. In addition, there shall be paid into the system an amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:158. Such amount shall be paid in one lump sum or in such installments as shall be agreed upon between the member and the board of trustees.

Acts 1987, No. 910, §1, eff. July 1, 1987; Redesignated from R.S. 13:21.2 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2001, No. 746, §1, eff. Dec. 31, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:417 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 417
Members employed in other state or public employment
Status: in_force

A. Any person who is a member of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, who has creditable membership service of at least five years in this system, and who becomes employed in other state or public employment where he is no longer eligible for membership in this system, but is eligible for membership in the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, the Louisiana State Police Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, or the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System shall have the right to remain a member of this system in lieu of membership in the other state or statewide retirement system by filing a notice of election to remain in this system, in writing, with the board of trustees within thirty days after the effective date of employment. Such election shall be irrevocable.

B. Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 770, §2, eff. June 30, 2006.

C. Any person who is a member of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, who becomes employed in other state or public employment where he is no longer eligible for membership in this system as a result of official actions over which the member has no control, who is eligible for membership in the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, the Louisiana State Police Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, or the Municipal Employees' Retirement System, and who has at least one year of creditable service in this system, shall have the right to remain a member of this system in lieu of membership in the other state or statewide retirement system, by filing a notice of election to remain in the system, in writing, with the board of trustees within thirty days after the effective date of the change in employment. The election shall be irrevocable.

Acts 1990, No. 723, §1, eff. June 1, 1990; Redesignated from R.S. 42:558 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 843, §1, eff. July 8, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 341, §1; Acts 2006, No. 770, §2, eff. June 30, 2006; Acts 2012, No. 227, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:541 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 541
Payment of contributions; delinquency; agreement to deductions
Status: in_force

When any political subdivision or agency of the state is delinquent in its payments to the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, the system is hereby authorized to certify to the state treasurer that the political subdivision or agency is delinquent, and the amount of such delinquency, and the treasurer upon receipt of such certification is hereby authorized and directed to deduct such amount from any monies then available for distribution to or for the benefit of that political subdivision or agency and to transmit such amount directly to the system.

Acts 1991, No. 687, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 42:651.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §5, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3697 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3697
Effective dates
Status: in_force

All benefit changes shall be prospective only unless stated otherwise in the Act. Statutory benefit changes shall not apply to members who have already retired.

Acts 2011, No. 399, §1, eff. July 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:830 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 830
Officers and employees of board of trustees; compensation
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall elect from its membership a chairman and shall by a majority vote of all its members appoint a director and assistant directors. The board of trustees shall engage such actuarial and other service as shall be required to transact the business of the retirement system. The compensation of all persons engaged by the board of trustees and all other expenses of the board necessary for the operation of the retirement system shall be paid at such rates and in such amounts as the board of trustees shall approve.

Acts 1990, No. 631, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Redesignated from R.S. 17:656 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3563 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3563
City of Lake Charles; credit for military service
Status: in_force

In addition to, and notwithstanding, the provisions of any other law, and particularly R.S. 11:3521, any person who is a member of the Police Pension and Relief Fund for the city of Lake Charles shall be entitled, without contribution therefor other than the increased contributions required by R.S. 11:3546, to service credit in such pension and relief fund for active service in the military service of the United States for up to but not in excess of two years of such active military service whether rendered prior to or after commencement of employment in the police department. Application for credit for such active service shall be made and evidence thereof shall be furnished to the board of trustees of the pension and relief fund at any time prior to application for retirement. The credit herein authorized shall be only for purposes of the police pension and relief fund, and shall not be used to compute time served with the police department for purposes of compensation, promotion, longevity or any other purpose.

Added by Acts 1981, No. 320, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2241.7 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1484 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1484
Reversion of funds prohibited
Status: in_force

A. At no time shall it be possible for the plan assets to be used for, or diverted to, any person or purpose other than for the exclusive benefit of the members and their beneficiaries, except that contributions made by the employer may be returned to the employer if the contribution was made due to a mistake of fact and the contribution is returned within one year of the mistaken payment of the contribution.

B. The amount of any contribution returned shall not exceed the difference between the amount actually contributed and the amount which would have been contributed had there been no mistake of fact and shall not include the earnings attributable to such contribution. The amount of the contributions returned shall be reduced by any losses attributable to the contribution, and no participant shall have his benefit payable hereunder reduced by the return of the contribution to less than such benefit would have been had the returned contribution never been made.

C. Notwithstanding the above, if the system is terminated and all obligations under the system are fully funded and provided for, then any excess funds held by the system shall be returned to the employer.

Acts 1997, No. 691, §1, eff. July 1, 1997.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1376 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1376
Pensions to widows of judges; remarriage
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, benefits paid to the widows of justices and judges under authority of R.S. 11:552(A) or under authority of any other law of this state enacted prior to October 1, 1976, shall not be curtailed by reason of remarriage if the widow had been married to the justice or judge for at least twenty-five years; and any such benefits for any such widow which have been curtailed by reason of remarriage shall be resumed, but without any retroactive effect.

Added by Acts 1979, No. 237, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 13:5.5 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3771 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3771
Pensions and benefits
Status: in_force

Payment of pensions and benefits shall conform to the following conditions:

(1) A member who has served in the department for twenty-five years continuously without interruption, upon retiring from actual service in the department shall receive from the pension fund the sum of three hundred dollars per month during the balance of his lifetime.

(2)(a) A member who has acquired a permanent disability from any cause, either while on or off duty, save and except any disability which may arise out of a result from the commission or the attempted commission of a misdemeanor or a felony or use of any drug or intoxicating liquor to such extent as to become under the influence thereof to the extent that service cannot be performed in the department, shall upon submission of due proof in accordance with the requirements of this organization, be paid monthly during the period of the disability for the balance of his lifetime in accordance with the following scale:

(i) An employee who at the time the disability occurs has served the department continuously for more than twenty years shall be paid the sum of three hundred dollars per month.

(ii) An employee who at the time the disability occurs has served the department continuously for more than ten years but less than twenty years shall be paid the sum of two hundred dollars per month.

(iii) An employee who at the time the disability occurs has served the department continuously for more than five years and up to and including ten years shall be paid one hundred dollars per month.

(iv) An employee who at the time the disability occurs has served the department for less than five years will not be entitled to any benefits therefor, but shall in lieu thereof be refunded all payments made by him in accordance with R.S. 11:3769(4).

(b) At any time during said period of disability, the board of trustees hereof may require the member to submit to physical examination in accordance with the requirements of the organization.

(3) Upon the death of a member of this organization, either active or pensioner, from any cause whatsoever, whether while actively in service or while receiving benefits, such member's widow to whom he was lawfully married and not divorced at the time of his death, shall during the period of her widowhood receive one hundred seventy-five dollars per month, and if there is a lawful child or children of the deceased who are under eighteen years of age and not married, such widow shall receive an additional thirty-five dollars per month for each child not to exceed a total of one hundred five dollars per month for all of such children until the youngest child reaches eighteen years of age.

(4) Should no lawful widow survive the deceased member, either active or pensioner, or should his widow subsequently die or remarry and there are lawful surviving children under eighteen years of age and not married, then they shall receive the sum of one hundred fifty dollars per month, to be divided between them equally for their support or education until the youngest child has reached eighteen years of age.

(5) Should the deceased member, either active or pensioner, be survived by neither lawful wife nor lawful children below the age of eighteen years nor by a father or mother, in that event, the sum of three hundred dollars shall be paid to any person named in writing as the beneficiary of the deceased member, and in default of a beneficiary so named, or if the beneficiary named pre-decease said member, then the said amount shall be used by the organization first to pay the funeral expenses and expenses of last illness of the deceased member, and if any residue remain thereafter it shall be paid to legal heirs of deceased.

Designated from Acts 1952, No. 187, §12 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014.

NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1493 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1493
Benefit provided
Status: in_force

A. An excess benefit participant who is receiving benefits from the fund is entitled to a monthly benefit under this excess benefit plan in an amount equal to the lesser of:

(1) The member's unrestricted benefit less the maximum benefit.

(2) The amount by which the member's monthly benefit from the fund has been reduced because of the limitations of R.S. 11:1458.

B. A retirement benefit payable under this excess benefit plan shall be paid in the form and at the time it would have been paid as a monthly pension under the fund, except for the limitations under R.S. 11:1458 and Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code. Each optional benefit form permitted under this excess benefit plan shall be the actuarial equivalent of each other permitted benefit form.

C. This plan shall be administered by the board. Except as provided to the contrary by this Part, the rights, duties, and responsibilities of the board shall be the same for this excess benefit plan as for the fund set forth in Part I of this Chapter.

D. The actuary employed by the board is responsible for determining the amount of benefits that may not be provided under the fund solely because of the limitations of R.S. 11:1458 and Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code and thus, the amount of contributions that will be made to this excess benefit plan, rather than to the fund.

E. The actuary designated in R.S. 11:1461 shall also provide advice to the board for this excess benefit plan.

Acts 2001, No. 88, §1, eff. July 1, 2001.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:706 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 706
Application of other laws
Status: in_force

No other provision of law which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of Louisiana for pensions or retirement benefits for teachers, their widows, or other dependents, shall apply to members or beneficiaries of the retirement system established by this Chapter, their widows or other dependents.

Redesignated from R.S. 17:575 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:2256.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 2256.4
Nonrecurring lump-sum supplemental payment in 2025
Status: in_force

A. A nonrecurring lump-sum supplemental payment shall be paid to the following retirees and beneficiaries:

(1) Any retiree who has received a benefit for at least one year as of June 30, 2025.

(2) Any nonretiree beneficiary if the retiree or beneficiary or both combined have received a benefit for at least one year as of June 30, 2025.

B. The supplemental payment paid pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be paid no later than August 1, 2025.

C. Each retiree or beneficiary to whom this Section applies shall receive a nonrecurring lump-sum supplemental payment in the amount of two thousand dollars.

Acts 2025, No. 122, §1, eff. June 8, 2025.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:281 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 281
Failure to timely remit contributions; effect
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the provisions of this Section shall be applicable to all members of the following public retirement systems:

(1) Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System.

(2) Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System.

(3) Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana.

(4) Assessors' Retirement Fund.

(5) Clerks' of Court Retirement and Relief Fund.

(6) District Attorneys' Retirement System.

(7) Firefighters' Retirement System.

(8) Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana.

(9) Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System.

(10) Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana.

(11) Registrars of Voters Employees' Retirement System.

(12) Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund.

B.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, all payments of employers' contributions and employees' contributions, including any payments due from the state of Louisiana which are paid after becoming delinquent, shall include interest to be paid to the retirement system at the rate of legal interest computed from the date the payment became delinquent.

(2) For any employer who is unable to make the required contributions on a timely basis as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina or Rita, or both, no interest shall be assessed or payable on contributions which were due for August or September 2005, for the first two months of delinquency.

Acts 1988, No. 301, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 42:720.30 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 758, §1, eff. June 22, 1993; Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 44, §1, eff. Dec. 6, 2005.

NOTE: See Acts 2005, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 44, §2, relative to retroactive application.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:952.33 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 952.33
Early service retirement
Status: in_force

Any member who has not attained age sixty-five may retire on an early service retirement allowance upon written application to the board of supervisors setting forth at what time, not less than ninety days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he desires to be retired provided that at the time specified for this retirement the member has thirty years or more of credited service at any age, or the member has attained age fifty-five or over and the sum of the member's attained age and years of credited service will equal at least eighty.

Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1625 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:404 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 404
Falsification of records
Status: in_force

Whoever knowingly makes any false statement or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record or records of this system in an attempt to defraud the system shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

Acts 1972, No. 135, §1, eff. July 26, 1972; Redesignated from R.S. 42:544 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1521 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1521
Regular retirement benefits
Status: in_force

A.(1) A member or former member hired on or before December 31, 2010, shall be eligible for regular retirement benefits if he has twelve or more years of credited service, he has attained the age of fifty-five years or more, and he has terminated his employment.

(2) A member or former member hired on or after January 1, 2011, shall be eligible for regular retirement benefits if he has twelve or more years of credited service, he has attained the age of sixty years or more, and he has terminated his employment.

B. A member or former member eligible for regular retirement benefits who desires to receive same shall make application for such to the board. The application shall provide complete evidence of service, age, date of termination of employment, and any other information required by the board. The clerk of court for whom the member or former member is or was employed shall certify the accuracy of all information contained in the application and shall forward same to the secretary of the fund.

C.(1) If the board concludes that an applicant hired on or before December 31, 2010, is eligible for regular retirement benefits, he shall be paid monthly regular retirement benefits equal to the following rates:

(a) Three percent of his monthly average final compensation, multiplied by the number of years of service credit accrued on and before June 30, 1999.

(b) Three and one-third percent of his monthly average final compensation, multiplied by the number of years of service credit accrued on and after July 1, 1999.

(2) If the board concludes that an applicant hired on or after January 1, 2011, is eligible for regular retirement benefits, he shall be paid monthly regular retirement benefits equal to three percent of his monthly average final compensation, multiplied by the number of years of service credit accrued.

(3) Monthly regular retirement benefits as provided in this Subsection shall not exceed one hundred percent of the applicant's monthly average final compensation.

Acts 1986, No. 1063, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1986; Redesignated from R.S. 13:942 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1999, No. 211, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2010, No. 101, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3517 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3517
Rights of members employed before July 28, 1948
Status: in_force

R.S. 11:3514 and 3516 shall not affect the rights acquired by members of police departments employed prior to 12 o'clock noon, July 28, 1948, and shall not affect their right to retirement after twenty years of service, and employees of police departments of municipalities coming under this law by reason of population increases shall have the same benefits granted herein if such employees were employed prior to 12 o'clock noon, July 28, 1948.

Amended by Acts 1958, No. 50, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2237 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3661 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3661
Military service credit
Status: in_force

A. Time served as a member of the armed forces of the United States up to but not in excess of three years by any member of the police pension fund employed on or prior to December 31, 1967, who has been an officer, member, or employee of the police department of the city of New Orleans for at least sixteen years, whether before or after becoming an officer, member, or employee of said police department, or both, shall constitute service credit in the police department as used in this Subpart. Time served as a member of the active armed forces of the United States, up to but not in excess of three years, by any member of the police pension fund employed on or after January 1, 1968, or who was employed prior thereto but has elected to come under the new police pension system, who has been an officer, member or employee of the police department of the city of New Orleans for at least twenty-five years, and is at least fifty years of age, whether before or after becoming an officer, member, or employee of said police department, or both, shall constitute service credit in the police department as used in this Subpart. The service credit herein authorized shall be only for purposes of the police pension fund and shall be used only for the computation of pension benefits.

B. Application for credit for such service shall be made and evidence thereof shall be furnished to the board of trustees of the police pension fund at any time prior to application for retirement. In addition each person claiming such credit shall pay into the fund for each year of credit claimed an amount equal to five percent of the highest annual salary he received as an officer, member or employee of the police department. This amount may be paid in one lump sum at the time of retirement or in such installments as shall be agreed upon between the board of trustees and the member, provided that all installments must be paid within four years after the date of retirement.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 172, §3. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 748, §1, eff. upon approval by the New Orleans City Council; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2306 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:3852 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 3852
Eligibility
Status: in_force

Such pension plans shall apply to any employee or official, elected or appointed, who has reached the minimum age of sixty years and has been an officer or employee of such municipality for at least twenty-four years.

Acts 1954, No. 511, §2; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1782 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:248 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 248
Surviving spouses of police officers
Status: in_force

A. Any local retirement or pension system, plan, or fund may grant a cost-of-living adjustment to any surviving spouse currently receiving death, surviving spouse, or widows' benefits based on the death of a spouse who was a police officer, provided that:

(1) The death occurred while the officer was in the discharge of his duties, or resulted from immediate effects of an injury received while he was engaged in the discharge of his duties;

(2) The death occurred on or before January 1, 1960; and

(3) The surviving spouse is at least eighty years of age on July 1, 2006.

B. The increase granted pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall not be more than four hundred dollars per month.

Acts 2006, No. 649, §1, eff. July 1, 2006.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:252 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 252
Actuary; appointment; duties
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the board of trustees of any state or statewide retirement system is hereby authorized to appoint an actuary or actuaries, independently or jointly. However, any duties the board assigns to the actuary shall relate only to the practice of actuarial science or ministerial duties that do not require the exercise of supervision or discretionary control over the administration or management of the system.

Acts 2018, No. 397, §1, eff. June 30, 2018.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:583.1 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 583.1
Continuation of benefit
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 11:583 or any other provision of law to the contrary, any employee of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries who was awarded disability benefits by action of the board of trustees after November 1, 1984, but before December 31, 1984, shall, regardless of whether such award was valid, continue to receive benefits under and subject to any restrictions in this Subpart.

Acts 1992, No. 419, §1.
La. Rev. Stat. § 11:1345.4 — LA Code / Code revised-statutes / Title 11 / Section 1345.4
Eligibility for retirement
Status: in_force

Any member shall be eligible for retirement if he has:

(1) Twenty-five years or more of service, at any age.

(2) Twelve years or more of service, at age fifty-five or thereafter.

(3) Twenty years of service credit at any age, exclusive of military service and unused annual and sick leave, but any person retiring under this Paragraph shall have his benefit, inclusive of military service credit and allowable unused annual and sick leave, actuarially reduced from the earliest age that he would normally become eligible for a regular retirement benefit under Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section if he had continued in service to that age. Any employee who elects to retire under the provisions of this Paragraph shall not be eligible to participate in the Back-Deferred Retirement Option Program provided by R.S. 11:1312.1 or the Initial Benefit Option provided by R.S. 11:1307(E).

Acts 2010, No. 992, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Acts 2013, No. 220, §3, eff. June 11, 2013.