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NC Gen Stat § 135-48.56 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 3B - State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees.|§ 135-48.56 - Education of covered active and retired employees.

 135-48.56. Education of covered active and retired employees.It is the intent of the General Assembly that active employees and retired employees covered under the Plan and its successor Plan shall have several opportunities in each fiscal year to attend presentations conducted by Plan management staff providing detailed information about benefits, limitations, premiums, co-payments, and other pertinent Plan matters. To this end, the Plan's management staff shall conduct multiple presentations each year to Plan members and association groups representing active and retired employees across all geographic regions of the State. Regional meetings shall be held in locations that afford reasonably convenient access to Plan members. The presentations shall be designed not only to present information about the Plan but also to hear and respond to Plan members' questions and concerns.  (1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1398, s. 6; 1983, c. 922, s. 2; 1985, c. 732, ss. 7, 9, 23, 24, 50, 51; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1020, ss. 3, 20; 1987, c. 857, ss. 6, 7; 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1091, s. 5; 1989, c. 752, s. 22(a); 1991, c. 427, s. 3; 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 679, s. 10.3; 1997-468, s. 2; 1997-519, s. 3.15; 1998-1, s. 4(c); 2000-141, s. 3; 2001-253, ss. 1(a), 1(q); 2001-487, s. 85.5; 2006-249, s. 4(b); 2007-323, s. 28.22(i); 2008-107, s. 10.13(a); 2008-168, ss. 1(a), 2(a), (k), (j); 2009-16, s. 5(b); 2011-85, s. 2.5(d); 2011-326, s. 27.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-48.57 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 3B - State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees.|§ 135-48.57 - Payments for county or city ambulance service.

 135-48.57. Payments for county or city ambulance service.Allowable payments for services provided by a county or city ambulance service shall be paid directly or shall be co-payable to the county or city ambulance service provider. As used in this subsection, "county or city ambulance service" means ambulance services provided by a county or county-franchised ambulance service supplemented by county funds, or a municipally owned and operated ambulance service or by an ambulance service supplemented by municipal funds.  (1981, c. 355; 1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1398, ss. 3, 4; 1983, c. 922, s. 21.10; 1985, c. 732, s. 38; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1020, s. 20; 1998-1, s. 4(h); 2007-323, s. 28.22A(c); 2008-107, s. 10.13(m); 2008-168, s. 1(a), (c), (d); 2009-16, s. 5(f); 2009-83, s. 1; 2010-194, s. 18(a); 2011-85, s. 2.4(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-48.58 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 3B - State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees.|§ 135-48.58 - Premiums for firefighters, rescue squad workers, and members of National Guard.

 135-48.58. Premiums for firefighters, rescue squad workers, and members of National Guard.In setting premiums for firefighters, rescue squad workers, and members of the National Guard, and their eligible dependents, the Plan shall establish rates separate from those affecting other members of the Plan. These separate premium rates shall include rate factors for incurred but unreported claim costs, for the effects of adverse selection from voluntary participation in the Plan, and for any other actuarially determined measures needed to protect the financial integrity of the Plan for the benefit of its served employees, retired employees, and their eligible dependents.  (1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1398, s. 6; 1985, c. 732, s. 52; 1991, c. 427, s. 5; 1997-468, s. 4; 1998-1, s. 4(e); 1999-237, s. 28.29(h); 2003-69, s. 2; 2004-124, s. 31.21(c); 2005-276, s. 29.31(e); 2007-323, s. 28.22A(m), (m1), (o); 2007-345, ss. 11, 12; 2008-107, s. 10.13(a); 2008-168, ss. 1(a), 2(a), (m); 2009-281, s. 1; 2009-571, s. 3(c); 2011-85, ss. 2.5(f), 2.10.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-50 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-50 - Short title and purpose.

 135-50. Short title and purpose.(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act."(b) The purpose of this Article is to improve the administration of justice by attracting and retaining the most highly qualified talent available within the State to the positions of justice and judge, district attorney and solicitor, public defender, the Director of Indigent Defense Services, and clerk of superior court, within the General Court of Justice.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1031, ss. 2, 3; 2005-276, s. 29.30A(a); 2005-345, s. 42; 2007-323, s. 28.21B(a); 2008-107, s. 26.24(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-51 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-51 - Scope.

 135-51. Scope.(a) This Article provides consolidated retirement benefits for all justices and judges, district attorneys, and solicitors who are serving on January 1, 1974, and who become such thereafter; and for all clerks of superior court who are so serving on January 1, 1975, and who become such after that date; and for all public defenders who are serving on July 1, 2007, and who become public defenders after that date; and for the Director of Indigent Defense Services who is serving on July 1, 2008, and those who become Director of Indigent Defense Services after that date.(b) For justices and judges of the appellate and superior court divisions of the General Court of Justice who so served prior to January 1, 1974, the provisions of this Article supplement and, under certain circumstances, replace the provisions of Articles 6 and 8, as the case may be, of Chapter 7A of the General Statutes.For district attorneys and judges of the district court of the General Court of Justice who so served prior to January 1, 1974, the provisions of this Article supplement and, under certain circumstances, replace the provisions of Article 1 of this Chapter.For clerks of superior court of the General Court of Justice who so served prior to January 1, 1975, the provisions of this Article supplement and, under certain circumstances, replace the provisions of Article 1 of this Chapter.(c) The retirement benefits of any person who becomes a justice or judge, district attorney, or solicitor on and after January 1, 1974, or clerk of superior court on and after January 1, 1975, or public defender on or after July 1, 2007, or the Director of Indigent Defense Services on or after July 1, 2008, shall be determined solely in accordance with the provisions of this Article.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1031, s. 4; 2005-276, s. 29.30A(b); 2005-345, s. 42; 2007-323, s. 28.21B(b); 2008-107, s. 26.24(b).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-52 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-52 - Application of Article 1; administration.

 135-52. Application of Article 1; administration.(a) References in Article 1 of this Chapter to the provisions of "this Chapter" shall not necessarily apply to this Article. However, except as otherwise provided in this Article, the provisions of Article 1 are applicable and shall apply to and govern the administration of the Retirement System established hereby. Not in limitation of the foregoing, the provisions of G.S. 135-5(h), 135-5(n), 135-9, 135-10, 135-12 and 135-17 are specifically applicable to the Retirement System established hereby.(b) The provisions of this Article shall be administered by the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System. (1973, c. 640, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-54 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-54 - Name and date of establishment.

 135-54. Name and date of establishment.A Retirement System is hereby established and placed under the management of the Board of Trustees for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits under the provisions of this Article for justices and judges, district attorneys, public defenders, the Director of Indigent Defense Services, and clerks of superior court of the General Court of Justice of North Carolina, and their survivors. This Retirement System is a governmental plan, within the meaning of Section 414(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. Therefore, the nondiscrimination rules of Sections 401(a)(5) and 401(a)(26) of the Code do not apply. The Retirement System so created shall be established as of January 1, 1974.The Retirement System shall have the power and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as the "Consolidated Judicial Retirement System of North Carolina," and by such name all of its business shall be transacted.Consistent with Section 401(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, all contributions from participating employers and participating employees to this Retirement System shall be made to funds held in trust through trust instruments that have the purposes of distributing trust principal and income to retired members and their beneficiaries and of paying other definitely determinable benefits under this Chapter, after meeting the necessary expenses of administering this Retirement System. Neither the trust corpus nor income from this trust can be used for purposes other than the exclusive benefit of members or their beneficiaries, except that employer contributions made to the trust under a good faith mistake of fact may be returned to an employer, where the refund can occur within less than one year after the mistaken contribution was made, consistent with the rule adopted by the Board of Trustees. The Retirement System shall have a consolidated Plan document, consisting of relevant statutory provisions in this Chapter, associated regulations in the North Carolina Administrative Code, substantive and procedural information on the official forms used by the Retirement System, and policies and minutes of the Board of Trustees.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1031, s. 11; 2005-276, s. 29.30A(d); 2005-345, s. 42; 2007-323, s. 28.21B(d); 2008-107, s. 26.24(d); 2012-130, s. 7(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-55 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-55 - Membership.

 135-55. Membership.(a) The membership of the Retirement System shall consist of:(1) All judges and district attorneys in office on January 1, 1974;(2) All persons who become judges and district attorneys or reenter service as judges and district attorneys after January 1, 1974;(3) All clerks of superior court in office on January 1, 1975;(4) All persons who become clerks of superior court or reenter service as clerks of superior court after January 1, 1975;(5) All public defenders in office on July 1, 2007;(6) All persons who become public defenders or reenter service as public defenders after July 1, 2007;(7) The Director of Indigent Defense Services on July 1, 2008; and(8) All persons who become the Director of Indigent Defense Services or reenter service as the Director of Indigent Defense Services after July 1, 2008.(b) The membership of any person in the Retirement System shall cease upon:(1) The withdrawal of his accumulated contributions after he is no longer a judge, district attorney, public defender, the Director of Indigent Defense Services, or clerk of superior court, or(2) His retirement under the provisions of the Retirement System, or(3) His death.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1031, ss. 12, 13; 2005-276, s. 29.30A(e); 2005-345, s. 42; 2007-323, s. 28.21B(e); 2008-107, s. 26.24(e).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-56.01 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-56.01 - Reciprocity of creditable service with other State-administered retirement systems.

 135-56.01. Reciprocity of creditable service with other State-administered retirement systems.(a) Only for the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits accruing under this Article, creditable service standing to the credit of a member of the Legislative Retirement System, Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, or the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System shall be added to the creditable service standing to the credit of a member of this System; provided, that in the event a person is a retired member of any of the foregoing retirement systems, such creditable service standing to the credit of the retired member prior to retirement shall be likewise counted. In no instance shall service credits maintained in the aforementioned retirement systems be added to the creditable service in this System for application of this System's benefit accrual rate in computing a service retirement benefit unless specifically authorized by this Article.(b) A person who was a former member of this System and who has forfeited his creditable service in this System by receiving a return of contributions and who has creditable service in the Legislative Retirement System, Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, or the Local Government Employees' Retirement System may count such creditable service for the purpose of restoring the creditable service forfeited in this System under the terms and conditions as set forth in this Article and reestablish membership in this System.(c) Creditable service under this section shall not be counted twice for the same period of time whether earned as a member, purchased, or granted as prior service credits. (1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1066, s. 35(d); 1997-456, s. 27.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-56.2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-56.2 - Creditable service for other employment.

 135-56.2. Creditable service for other employment.Any member may purchase creditable service for service as a State teacher or employee, as defined under G.S. 135-1(10) and (25), and for service as an employee of local government, as defined under G.S. 128-21(10). A member, upon the completion of 10 years of membership service, may also purchase creditable service for periods of federal employment, provided that the member is not receiving any retirement benefits resulting from this federal employment, and provided that the member is not vested in the particular federal retirement system to which the member may have belonged while a federal employee. The member, after the transfer of any accumulated contributions from the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, shall purchase this service by paying a lump sum amount to the annuity savings fund equal to the full liability increase due to the additional service credits on the basis of the assumptions used for the purposes of the actuarial valuation of the liabilities of the Retirement System, except for the following assumptions specific to this calculation: (i) the allowance shall be assumed to commence at the earliest age at which the member could retire on an unreduced retirement allowance and (ii) assumed annual postretirement allowance increases as set by the Board of Trustees upon the advice of the consulting actuary. Subject to the requirements of this subsection, an employer may pay all or part of the cost of a service purchase of a member in service. To the extent that the purchase is paid by the employer, the cost paid by the employer shall be credited to the pension accumulation fund. As an alternative to transferring any accumulated contributions from the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System to the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System, a member may irrevocably elect to transfer these contributions to the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan of North Carolina as determined by the Plan's Board of Trustees and the Department of State Treasurer in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 135-94(a)(4). Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section that provide for the purchase of service credits, the terms "full cost", "full liability", and "full actuarial cost" include assumed annual post-retirement allowance increases, as determined by the Board of Trustees, from the earliest age at which a member could retire on an unreduced service allowance.  (1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1041; 1985, c. 348, s. 1; c. 749, s. 2; 1989, c. 255, s. 21(b); 2021-57, s. 3.3.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-57 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-57 - Service retirement.

 135-57. Service retirement.(a) Any member on or after January 1, 1974, who has attained his fiftieth birthday and five years of membership service may retire upon electronic submission or written application to the board of trustees setting forth at what time, as of the first day of a calendar month, not less than one day nor more than 120 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he desires to be retired.(a1) Repealed by Session Laws 2014-88, s. 3(h), effective July 30, 2014.(b) Any member who is a justice or judge of the General Court of Justice shall be automatically retired as of the first day of the calendar month coinciding with or next following the later of January 1, 1974, or his attainment of his seventy-second birthday; provided, however, that no judge who is a member on January 1, 1974, shall be forced to retire under the provisions of this subsection at an earlier date than the last day that he is permitted to remain in office under the provisions of G.S. 7A-4.20.(c) Any member who terminates service on or after January 1, 1974, having accumulated five or more years of creditable service may retire under the provisions of subsection (a) above, provided that he shall not have withdrawn his accumulated contributions prior to the effective date of his retirement, and the requirement of subsection (a) that the member be in service shall not apply.(c1) Repealed by Session Laws 2014-88, s. 3(h), effective July 30, 2014.(d) Any member who was in service October 8, 1981, who had attained 50 years of age, may retire upon electronic submission or written application to the board of trustees setting forth at what time, as of the first day of a calendar month, not less than one day nor more than 120 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he desires to be retired.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1981, c. 378, s. 6; 1983, c. 761, s. 230; 1987, c. 513, s. 1; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 873, s. 2; 2007-431, s. 4; 2009-66, ss. 3(e), 12(i), (j); 2011-232, s. 8; 2014-88, s. 3(h).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-61 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-61 - Election of optional allowance.

 135-61. Election of optional allowance.Any member who retires under the provisions of this Article shall have the right to elect to have his allowance payable under any one of the optional forms provided for in G.S. 135-5(g), subject to the conditions therein contained, in lieu of the allowance that would otherwise be payable. (1973, c. 640, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-62 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-62 - Return of accumulated contributions.

 135-62. Return of accumulated contributions.(a) Should a member cease membership service otherwise than by death or retirement under the provisions of this Article, he shall, upon submission of an application, be paid, not earlier than 60 days from the date of termination of service, his contributions and the accumulated regular interest thereon, provided that he has not in the meantime returned to service as a judge. Upon payment of such accumulated contributions his membership in the Retirement System shall cease and, if he thereafter again becomes a member, no credit shall be allowed for any service previously rendered, except as otherwise provided in G.S. 135-56(b). Any such payment of a member's accumulated contributions shall be in full and complete discharge of any rights in or to any benefits otherwise payable under this Article.(b) Repealed by Session Laws 1993, c. 531, s. 7.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1981, c. 672, s. 4; 1983, c. 467; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1031, s. 20; 1993, c. 531, s. 7; 2014-88, s. 2(d).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-66 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 4 - Consolidated Judicial Retirement Act.|§ 135-66 - Administration; management of funds; method of financing.

 135-66. Administration; management of funds; method of financing.(a) The State Treasurer shall be the custodian of the assets of this Retirement System and shall invest them in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 147-69.2 and G.S. 147-69.3.(b) The assets of this Retirement System shall include employers' contributions held with the Pension Accumulation Fund established under G.S. 135-8 and employees' contributions held in the Annuity Savings Fund similarly established under G.S. 135-8.(c) The Board of Trustees shall have performed an annual actuarial valuation of the System and shall have the financial responsibility for maintaining the System on a generally accepted actuarial basis.(d) An actuarially determined employer contribution shall be calculated annually by the actuary using assumptions and a cost method approved by the Actuarial Standards Board of the American Academy of Actuaries and selected by the Board of Trustees.(e) Notwithstanding Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, the Board of Trustees may adopt a contribution policy that would recommend a contribution not less than the actuarially determined employer contribution.(f) The recommended employer contribution rate by the Board of Trustees each year shall not be less than the actuarially determined employer contribution.  (1973, c. 640, s. 1; 1979, c. 467, s. 18; 2020-48, s. 1.6.)