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SC Code § 9-8-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-180. Assets credited to two funds.

 (1) All of the assets of the System shall be credited, according to the purpose for which they are held, to one of two accounts; namely, the members' account and the accumulation account.  (2) The members' account shall be the account in which shall be held the contributions made by members.  (3) The accumulation account shall be the account in which shall be held all reserves for the payment of the part of all retirement allowances and other benefits payable from contributions made by the State, and from which shall be paid all retirement allowances payable under the System. All interest and dividends earned on the funds of the System shall be credited to the accumulation account. If a beneficiary is restored to membership, the part of his contributions then standing to his credit shall be transferred from the accumulation account to the members' account.  HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 150 Section 18.
SC Code § 9-8-185 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-185. Interest on member accounts.

 (A) Interest must be credited to the account of each member once each year as of June thirtieth, on the basis of the balance in the account of each member as of the previous June thirtieth. Upon the death, retirement, or termination of a member, interest must be figured to the end of the month immediately preceding the date of refund or retirement, interest being based on the balance in the member's account as of the June thirtieth immediately preceding the date of refund or retirement.  (B) Notwithstanding subsection (A), interest must not be credited to an inactive member account. For purposes of this subsection, a member account becomes inactive on July first if no contributions were made to the account in the preceding twelve months.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 37, eff June 4, 2008; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt V, Section 69.B, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-8-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-190. Exemption of retirement allowance and certain other rights from taxation and legal process; exceptions; assignment.

 Except as provided in Section 9-18-10, and related sections, Article 11, Chapter 17, Title 63 and Section 8-1-115 and subject to the doctrine of constructive trust ex maleficio, and subject to income tax levies imposed pursuant to state or federal law and distributions made pursuant to the federal Pension Protection Act of 2006, the right of a person to a retirement allowance or to the return of contributions, a retirement allowance itself, any optional allowance or payment on death or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, and the monies of the system are exempted from state or municipal tax, except the taxes imposed pursuant to Chapters 6 and 16 of Title 12, and exempted from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment, or any other process and are unassignable except as otherwise provided in this chapter. This section does not apply to any authorized deduction from a retirement allowance.  HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 150 Section 19; 1989 Act No. 189, Part II, Section 39D, eff for taxable years beginning after 1988 and with respect to estates of decedents dying after 1988 (became law on June 8, 1989, without the Governor's signature); 2001 Act No. 16, Section 3, eff April 10, 2001; 2008 Act No. 311, Section 13, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-8-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-200. Credit of State not pledged; rights upon termination of system.

 All agreements or contracts with the members of the System pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed solely obligations of the System and the full faith and credit of the State and of its departments, institutions and political subdivisions is not, and shall not be, pledged or obligated beyond the amounts which may be hereafter annually appropriated in the annual state general appropriation act, and other periodic appropriations for the purposes of this chapter. In case of termination of the System, the rights of all members of the System to benefits accrued to the date of such termination, to the extent then funded, shall be nonforfeitable.  HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 150 Section 20.
SC Code § 9-8-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-210. Property of system exempt from state and local taxes.

 All property owned or acquired by the System for the purposes of this chapter shall be exempt from all taxes imposed by the State or any political subdivision thereof.  HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 150 Section 21.
SC Code § 9-8-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-220. Penalty for false statement or falsification of records.

 Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement, or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record of the System in any attempt to defraud the System, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the court.  HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 150 Section 22.
SC Code § 9-8-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-240. Compensation used for determining benefits to be subject to federal limitations.

 Effective as of January 1, 1996, the annual compensation of a member taken into account for determining all benefits provided under this retirement system is subject to the limitations set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and any regulations promulgated thereunder, as adjusted for any cost-of-living increases in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code. Annual compensation means compensation during the plan year or such other consecutive twelve-month period over which compensation is otherwise determined under the retirement system, hereinafter referred to as the determination period. The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to annual compensation for the determination period that begins with or within such calendar year. However, the limitation on compensation does not apply to the compensation of an individual who became a member of this retirement system before January 1, 1996.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 48, Section 2, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 1995); 2008 Act No. 311, Section 14, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-8-245 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 8 - Retirement System For Judges And Solicitors|Section 9-8-245. Compliance with USERRA.

 Effective December 12, 1994, and notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, contributions, benefits, and service credit with respect to qualified military service shall be provided in accordance with Section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 15, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-9-5 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-5. System prospectively closed.

 (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Retirement System for Members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina (GARS) established pursuant to this chapter is closed to nonmembers and persons who otherwise would have been required or eligible to become members of GARS, instead shall join the South Carolina Retirement System or the State Optional Retirement Program in the manner provided by law.  (B) For purposes of this section, a "nonmember" is an individual first elected to serve in the General Assembly at or after the general election of 2012.  (C) Nothing in this section may be construed to alter or otherwise diminish the rights of persons who are active contributing members or special contributing members of the Retirement System for Members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina or who are retired members of that system or who are beneficiaries of deceased members of that system.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 278, Pt II, Section 17, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-9-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-10. Definitions.

 The following words and phrases as used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:  (1) "System" shall mean the Retirement System for members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina.  (2) "State" shall mean the State of South Carolina.  (3) "Board" means the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority.  (4) "Member of the System" shall mean any person included in the membership of the System, as set forth in Section 9-9-40.  (5) "Credited service" shall mean service for which credit is allowable as provided in Section 9-9-50.  (6) "Retirement allowance" shall mean monthly payments for life under the System payable as provided in Section 9-9-80.  (7) "Beneficiary" shall mean any person in receipt of a retirement allowance or other benefit as provided by the System.  (8) "Aggregate contributions" shall mean the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member of the System, or directly remitted by him to the System, and credited to his individual account in the System.  (9) "Regular interest" shall mean interest compounded annually at such rate as shall be determined by the Board in accordance with Section 9-9-30.  (10) "Accumulated contributions" shall mean the member's aggregate contributions, together with regular interest thereon.  (11) "Actuarial equivalent" shall mean a benefit of equal value when computed on the basis of the tables and regular interest rate last adopted by the Board, as provided in Section 9-9-30.  (12) "Date of establishment" shall mean January 1, 1966.  (13) "Earnable compensation" means forty times the daily rate of renumeration, plus twelve thousand dollars, of a member of the General Assembly, as from time to time in effect.  (14) "Employee annuity" shall mean annual payments for life derived from the accumulated contributions of a member.  (15) "Employer annuity" shall mean annual payments for life derived from money provided by the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-271; 1966 (54) 2081; 1975 (59) 71; 1977 Act No. 44 Section 1; 1983 Act No. 151 Part II Section 25; 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 38; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 32A, eff January 1, 1995; 2005 Act No. 153, Pt III, Section 2, eff July 1, 2005; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 49, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-9-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-20. System created; system shall have powers and privileges of corporation; corporate name.

 A retirement system is hereby created and placed under the administration of the Board to provide retirement allowances and other benefits for members of the General Assembly. The System shall begin operation as of January 1, 1966. It shall have the power and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as the Retirement System for members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, and all of its cash, securities and other property held.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-272; 1966 (54) 2081.
SC Code § 9-9-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-30. Administration of and responsibility for system vested in board; powers and duties of board; actuary; salaries of employees and expenses.

 (1) The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the system and for making effective the provisions hereof are hereby vested in the board.  (2) The Board shall engage such actuarial and other services as shall be required to transact the business of the System.  (3) The Board shall designate an actuary who shall be the technical advisor of the Board on matters regarding the operation of the System and shall perform such other duties as are required in connection therewith.  (4) At least once in each five-year period following the date of establishment, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation into the mortality, service and compensation experience of the members and beneficiaries of the System and shall make a valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the System. The Board, after taking into account the results of such investigations and valuations, shall adopt for the System such mortality, service and other tables as shall be deemed necessary.  (5) On the basis of regular interest and tables last adopted by the Board, the actuary shall make a valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the system at least every other year.  (6) The Board shall keep in convenient form such data as shall be necessary for the actuarial valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the System and for checking the experience of the System.  (7) The Board shall determine from time to time the rate of regular interest for use in all calculations, with the rate of four percent per annum applicable unless changed by the Board.  (8) Subject to the limitations hereof, the Board shall, from time to time, establish rules and regulations for the administration of the System and for the transaction of business.  (9) The Board shall keep a record of all its proceedings under this chapter which shall be open to public inspection. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law governing the System, all persons employed by the Board and the expenses of the Board to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall be paid from the interest earnings of the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-273; 1966 (54) 2081; 1981 Act No. 178 Part II Section 17; 1983 Act No. 151 Part II, Section 30A; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 50, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-9-31 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-31. Confidentiality of member records.

 All records of all active, retired, and inactive members maintained by the Retirement System for Members of the General Assembly are classified as confidential records. These records are exempt from the disclosure requirements of Chapter 4 of Title 30, and shall not be disclosed to third parties, except where authorized by the member or where requested by state and federal authorities, and then only at the sole discretion of the director of the South Carolina Retirement Systems.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 51, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-9-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-50. Credited service; cancellation of service previously credited upon cessation of membership; credit for military service.

 (1) The credited service of a member shall include all service as a member of the General Assembly since he last became a member of the System and in respect of which he makes contributions to the System. It shall also include, in the case of a member of the System who  (a) became such on the date of establishment and  (b) remained a member of the System continuously thereafter until his death or his retirement under the System, service which he was, or would be, entitled to claim as creditable service under the South Carolina Retirement System, notwithstanding that he may not have been a member of the South Carolina Retirement System; provided, that within six months of the date he becomes a member of the System, he shall have caused the full amount of his contributions required to be made under the South Carolina Retirement System in respect of such service to be paid to this System by transfer or otherwise.  (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member of the Retirement System for members of the General Assembly who has rendered service which would have been creditable under a correlated system may establish the service with this System, provided payment is made to the System on the same basis as members of the General Assembly contributed for the same period of time plus interest.  A former member of the General Assembly who is a member of the South Carolina Retirement System may transfer credit from the Retirement System for members of the General Assembly to the South Carolina Retirement System upon payment of an amount equal to four percent of his current salary or the average of his salary in the three highest consecutive years, whichever is greater, for each year of service credited.  (3) When membership in the System ceases for any reason other than death or retirement, the service previously credited to the member of the System shall be cancelled and, should he again become a member of the System, he shall enter the System as a new member of the System not entitled to credit for previous service.  (4) A member of the General Assembly may establish service credit in the system for the same types of service, at the same cost, and under the same conditions, as members of the South Carolina Retirement System may establish service in the South Carolina Retirement System pursuant to Section 9-1-1140.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-275; 1966 (54) 2081; 1967 (55) 252; 1972 (57) 2207; 1978 Act No. 644 Part II Section 27; 1983 Act No. 151 Part II Section 21B; 1990 Act No. 412, Section 7(A), eff April 11, 1990; 1998 Act No; 439, Section 2, eff June 16, 1998; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 32A, eff January 1, 2001.
SC Code § 9-9-55 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-55. Member of General Assembly for part of year may establish full year credit.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member of the General Assembly who was elected in a special election and served in the General Assembly any portion of a year may establish credit for the entire year provided payment is made to the system on the same basis as members of the General Assembly contributed for the same period of time plus interest.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 63, Section 2, eff June 13, 1995 (the date the General Assembly overrode the Governor's veto); 1995 Act No. 139, Section 3, eff June 28, 1995; 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 50, eff June 19, 1996.
SC Code § 9-9-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 9 - Retirement System For Members Of General Assembly|Section 9-9-60. Retirement; amount of retirement allowance.

 (1) A member of the system may retire upon written application to the board setting forth at what time, not more than ninety days before nor more than six months after the execution and filing of the application, the member desires to be retired, if at the time specified for retirement, the member is no longer in the service of the State, whether as a member of the General Assembly or otherwise, except as provided in Section 9-9-40(3), and has either attained the age of sixty years or completed thirty years of credited service.  (2) Effective July 1, 1989, a retired member shall receive a monthly retirement allowance which is equal to one-twelfth of four and eighty-two hundredths percent of earnable compensation multiplied by the number of years of his credited service prorated for periods less than a year.  (3) A member who has attained the age of seventy and one-half years and has twenty-five years of service or who has attained the age of 70 or has 30 years of service may retire and draw a retirement benefit while continuing to serve in the General Assembly upon written application to the board setting forth at what time, not more than ninety days before nor more than six months after the execution and filing of the application, the member desires to be retired. A member who has retired under this provision shall make no further contributions to the system, shall earn no further service credit, and may not reenter membership in the system.  The member must retire at the beginning of an annual session of the General Assembly and the election to receive the member's retirement allowance under this system is in lieu of receiving the constitutionally mandated per diem salary, currently established at ten thousand four hundred dollars for a regular session. This election if made is irrevocable and applies for as long as that person serves thereafter in the General Assembly including service in both regular and extra sessions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-276; 1966 (54) 2081; 1968 (55) 2855; 1970 (56) 1936; 1972 (57) 2207; 1975 (59) 71; 1975 (59) 154; 1978 Act No. 428 Section 3; 1978 Act No. 644 Part II; 1979 Act No. 82 Section 3; 1989 Act No. 189, Part II, Section 60E, eff July 1, 1989 (became law without the Governor's signature); 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 61B, eff July 1, 1994; 2001 Act No. 1, Part II, Section 7A, eff January 1, 2001; 2001 Act No. 25, Section 3A, eff May 29, 2001; 2002 Act No. 334, Section 21, eff June 24, 2002.