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RI Gen L § 36-9-45 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-9 - Retirement System - Membership and Service Credits|Section 36-9-45 - Narragansett Bay Water Quality Management District Commission - Uninterrupted state service.

§ 36-9-45. Narragansett Bay Water Quality Management District Commission — Uninterrupted state service.Transferred employees, as defined in § 36-9-44, who return to employment with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the commission shall have their length of service at the commission deemed to be uninterrupted active state service for purposes of service credits in the retirement system, and for the benefits provided for in §§ 36-4-59, 36-5-7 and 36-5-8.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 225, § 5.
RI Gen L § 36-9-46 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-9 - Retirement System - Membership and Service Credits|Section 36-9-46 - Transfer of state employees to Narragansett Bay water quality management district commission - Union employees.

§ 36-9-46. Transfer of state employees to Narragansett Bay water quality management district commission — Union employees.The transfer of state employees to commission employees shall not alter existing bargaining units, any provision of the general laws to the contrary notwithstanding.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 225, § 5.
RI Gen L § 36-9-47 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-9 - Retirement System - Membership and Service Credits|Section 36-9-47 - Purchase of service credits payable by installment.

§ 36-9-47. Purchase of service credits payable by installment.Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or of any other public or general law to the contrary, the retirement board shall permit individuals who purchase service credit to do so in installments. The retirement board shall create, by rule and regulation, provisions allowing that individuals purchasing service credit may do so on an installment plan by payroll deduction not to exceed five (5) years, provided that all purchases must be made prior to retirement. The retirement board shall charge interest at the actuarial assumed rate of return adopted by the board for purchases made on an installment plan.History of Section.P.L. 2001, ch. 193, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 269, § 2.
RI Gen L § 36-9-48 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-9 - Retirement System - Membership and Service Credits|Section 36-9-48 - Underground storage tank financial review board - Transferred employees.

§ 36-9-48. Underground storage tank financial review board — Transferred employees.(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section:(1) "UST Board" means the Rhode Island Underground Storage Tank Financial Review Board, a governmental agency and a public instrumentality of the state of Rhode Island.(2) "Transfer date" means July 1, 2006.(3) "Transferred employee" means any individual who was an employee of the UST Board of the state of Rhode Island on the date immediately preceding the transfer date, and who became an employee of the state of Rhode Island, department of environmental management on the transfer date.(b) Transferred employees who return to employment with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the Rhode Island Underground Storage Tank Financial Responsibility Review Board shall have their length of service at the UST Board deemed to be uninterrupted active state service for the purposes of service credits in the state retirement system.(c) The period of service of any transferred employee from December 29, 2002, to the date of transfer shall be treated as service as an employee of the state of Rhode Island for the purposes of chapters 8, 9 and 10 of this title.(d) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply unless within ninety (90) days following the date of enactment of this section [July 1, 2006], the UST Board transfers, or causes to have transferred from a trustee or other custodian, to the retirement system, an amount equal to the sum of the employees contribution accumulation and the employer contribution accumulation. The amount of transfer shall be determined by the retirement board at full actuarial cost as defined by § 36-8-1(10) for the period of service December 29, 2002, to the transfer date. This will be reduced by the transfer to the retirement board of any and all contributions made to the UST Board's Simple IRA by and on behalf of the transferred employees.(e) Transferred employees who return to service with the state of Rhode Island directly from uninterrupted employment with the Rhode Island Underground Storage Tank Financial Review Board, henceforth referred to as "UST Board" shall have their length of service at the UST Board deemed to be uninterrupted active state service for purposes of service credits in the state retirement system.History of Section.P.L. 2006, ch. 246, art. 27, § 4; P.L. 2012, ch. 415, § 6.
RI Gen L § 36-9.1-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-9.1 - Restricting Membership in Retirement System to Teachers and State Employees|Section 36-9.1-1 - Findings.

§ 36-9.1-1. Findings.The general assembly hereby finds the following: The grant of the opportunity to an individual to purchase, pursuant to P.L. 1987, ch. 613 as codified in § 36-9-33 (repealed by P.L. 88-486), (hereinafter "§ 36-9-33, repealed"), credit in, and/or to become a member of the retirement systems established under chapter 16 of title 16, chapter 21 of title 45, and/or chapters 8 — 10 of this title ("retirement systems") bears no rational relationship to any legitimate governmental purpose. The continued accrual of benefits by the beneficiaries of § 36-9-33 (repealed) and the continued payment of money under § 36-9-33 (repealed) will cause an invasion of the corpus of the retirement systems funds in abrogation of those sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended from time to time which apply to governmental plans (including but not limited to 401(a) and 401(f)) and does not further the purposes behind the retirement systems.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 413, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-9.1-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-9.1 - Restricting Membership in Retirement System to Teachers and State Employees|Section 36-9.1-2 - Status of non-employee and non-teacher members.

§ 36-9.1-2. Status of non-employee and non-teacher members.(a) Any individual who became a member of the retirement systems based solely on § 36-9-33 (repealed) or who purchased credit in the retirement systems based upon § 36-9-33 (repealed) shall no longer be entitled to membership and/or credit(s) and shall no longer receive any benefits of any type from the retirement systems which were based upon § 36-9-33 (repealed). By January 1, 1995, the retirement system shall return any contributions or purchases made pursuant to § 36-9-33 (repealed) by the individual and/or the individual's employer with interest at the actuarially assumed rate earned by the retirement systems on its pension funds during the applicable time period since the contributions and/or purchase was made.(b) The return of contributions or purchases shall be offset by any benefits already received by the individual from the retirement system.(c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting any individual from later becoming a member of the retirement systems or purchasing credits in accordance with applicable law.History of Section.P.L. 1994, ch. 413, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-10-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-1 - Member contributions - Deduction from compensation.

§ 36-10-1. Member contributions — Deduction from compensation.(a) Prior to July 1, 2012, each member of the retirement system shall contribute an amount equal to eight and three-quarters percent (8.75%) of his or her compensation as his or her share of the cost of annuities, benefits, and allowances. Effective July 1, 2012, each member of the retirement system shall contribute an amount equal to three and three quarters percent (3.75%) of his or her compensation, except for correctional officers as defined in § 36-10-9.2 who shall contribute an amount equal to eight and three quarters percent (8.75%) of his or her compensation. Effective July 1, 2015, each member of the retirement system, except for correctional officers as defined in § 36-10-9.2, with twenty (20) or more years of total service as of June 30, 2012 shall contribute an amount equal to eleven percent (11%) of compensation. The contributions shall be made in the form of deductions from compensation.(b) The deductions provided for herein shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided 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 receipt of his or her full compensation and payment of compensation, less the deductions, shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by the person during the period covered by the payment except as to the benefit provided under this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2334, § 5; G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 5; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1950, ch. 2614, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-1; P.L. 1960, ch. 20, § 1; P.L. 1964, ch. 240, § 1; P.L. 1965, ch. 231, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 152, § 1; P.L. 1970, ch. 112, art. 3, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 289, § 3; P.L. 1978, ch. 168, § 1; P.L. 1979, ch. 332, § 2; P.L. 1985, ch. 331, § 2; P.L. 1988, ch. 509, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 227, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 360, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 15, § 2; P.L. 2011, ch. 408, § 7; P.L. 2011, ch. 409, § 7; P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 21, § 2.
RI Gen L § 36-10-1.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-1.1 - Department payment of member contributions.

§ 36-10-1.1. Department payment of member contributions.(a) Each department, pursuant to the provisions of § 414(h)(2) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 414(h)(2), shall pick up and pay the contributions that would be payable by the employees as members under §§ 36-10-1, 8-3-16, 8-8-10.1, 8-8.2-7, 28-30-18.1, and 42-28-22.1. The contributions so picked up shall be treated as employer contributions in determining tax treatment under the United States Internal Revenue Code; and shall not be included as gross income of the employee until such time as they are distributed. Employee contributions that are picked up pursuant to this section shall be treated and identified as member contributions for all purposes of the retirement system except as specifically provided to the contrary in this section.(b) Member contributions picked up by a department shall be paid from the same source of funds used for the payment of compensation to a member. A deduction shall be made from a member's compensation equal to the amount of his or her contributions picked up by his or her departmental employer. This deduction, however, shall not reduce his or her compensation for purposes of computing benefits under the applicable retirement system. Picked up contributions shall be transmitted to the retirement system in accordance with the provisions of § 36-10-1, on the date contributions are withheld but no later than three (3) business days following the pay period ending in which contributions were withheld.(c) The state is required to deduct and withhold member contributions and to transmit same to the retirement system and is hereby made liable for the contribution. In addition, any amount of employee contributions actually deducted and withheld shall be deemed to be a special fund in trust for the benefit of the member and shall be transmitted to the retirement system as set forth herein.History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 137, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 494, § 12; P.L. 2019, ch. 205, § 6; P.L. 2019, ch. 271, § 6.
RI Gen L § 36-10-2.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-2.1 - Actuarial cost method.

§ 36-10-2.1. Actuarial cost method.(a) To determine the employer contribution rate for the State of Rhode Island for fiscal year 2002 and for all fiscal years subsequent, the actuary shall compute the costs under chapter 10 of title 36 using the entry age normal cost method.(b) The determination of the employer contribution rate for fiscal year 2013 shall include a reamortization of the current Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Liability (UAAL) over a closed twenty-five (25) year period. After an initial period of five (5) years, future actuarial gains and losses occurring within a plan year will be amortized over individual new twenty (20) year closed periods.(c) The determination of the employer contribution rate commencing with fiscal year 2017 shall include a re-amortization of the current unfunded actuarial accrued liability (UAAL) attributable to the sixty percent (60%) of contribution responsibility not partitioned to the state in § 16-16-22 over a closed twenty-five (25) year period. This will be accomplished by dividing the UAAL as of June 30, 2014 into two (2) separate amortization periods. Future actuarial gains and losses occurring within a plan year will be amortized over individual new twenty (20) year closed periods and allocated in the forty percent (40%) state / sixty percent (60%) municipal proportion set forth in § 16-16-22.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 201, § 2; P.L. 1989, ch. 126, art. 28, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 18, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 408, § 7; P.L. 2011, ch. 409, § 7; P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 21, § 3.
RI Gen L § 36-10-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-3 - Credits to individuals in annuity savings account.

§ 36-10-3. Credits to individuals in annuity savings account.All contributions made by members and interest thereon to July 1, 1947, shall be credited to the individual members' accounts in the annuity savings account. Effective July 1, 1947, the amount of accumulated contributions in the accounts of the members of the system which have been credited to the annuity savings fund shall be transferred to the annuity savings account and maintained in that account to the credit of the individual members. Effective July 1, 1965, the accumulated contributions of any inactive member who has been separated from service for five (5) years or more whose total service is less than ten (10) years shall be transferred from the annuity savings account to the contingent reserve for state employees or teacher members as the case may be. These funds will be held in escrow and should any member reenter service and again become a member, his or her previous contributions shall be revived and reinstated to his or her account for all purposes of this system. A member will still be eligible for a refund of these contributions upon application by him or her or his or her heirs at any time. Member contributions made pursuant to § 36-10-1.1 or 16-16-22.1 pursuant to a plan for the employer pick up of employee contributions shall be credited to a separate fund within an individual member's account in the annuity savings account so that the amounts contributed prior to the effective date for the pick up of employee contributions may be distinguished from the amounts contributed on or after the date of which the governmental employer begins to pick up the employee contributions required by law.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 5; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 3; P.L. 1949, ch. 2377, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-3; P.L. 1965, ch. 110, § 1; P.L. 1983, ch. 137, § 2.
RI Gen L § 36-10-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-4 - Credits and charges to contingent reserve account.

§ 36-10-4. Credits and charges to contingent reserve account.The amounts credited by the system to the annuity reserve fund and pension accumulation fund prior to July 1, 1947, shall be transferred on that date to a contingent reserve account. All appropriations by the state and all other income of the system except member contributions shall be credited to the contingent reserve account. The annuity savings account of any member of the system who shall be granted an annuity, benefit, or retirement allowance under the provisions of this chapter shall be transferred to the contingent reserve account, and all payments on account of any annuity, benefit, or retirement allowance shall be charged thereto. Any excess remaining in the contingent reserve account at the end of any fiscal year after payments for the year shall have been charged to the account shall be considered as a contingent reserve to meet the future liabilities of the system.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 5; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-4.
RI Gen L § 36-10-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-5 - Repealed.

§ 36-10-5. Repealed.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 5; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 3; P.L. 1949, ch. 2377, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-5; Repealed by P.L. 1980, ch. 170, § 2.
RI Gen L § 36-10-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-6 - Agreements for federal contributions.

§ 36-10-6. Agreements for federal contributions.The retirement board shall have the authority to enter into agreements with the federal government or appropriate agencies thereof respecting grants, contributions, or reimbursements to be made by the federal government as an equitable share in the cost of providing the annuities, benefits, and retirement allowances for those members of the system whose compensation is paid, in whole or in part, by the federal government or for whose compensation the state receives reimbursement, in whole or in part, from the federal government.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 5; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-6.
RI Gen L § 36-10-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-7 - Guaranty by state - Annual appropriations.

§ 36-10-7. Guaranty by state — Annual appropriations.The general assembly of the state of Rhode Island hereby declares that it is the intention of the state to make payment of the annuities, benefits, and retirement allowances provided for under the provisions of this chapter and to that end that it is the intention of the state to make the appropriations required by the state to meet its obligations to the extent provided in this chapter. The general assembly shall make annual appropriations which shall be sufficient to provide for the payment of the annuities, benefits, and retirement allowances required of the state under this chapter. The amounts to be appropriated shall be included in the annual appropriation bill and shall be paid by the general treasurer into the retirement system.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2334, § 6; G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 6; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-7.
RI Gen L § 36-10-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-8 - Refund of contributions - Repayment and restoration of credits.

§ 36-10-8. Refund of contributions — Repayment and restoration of credits.A member who withdraws from service or ceases to be a member for any reason other than death or retirement shall be paid on demand a refund consisting of the accumulated contributions standing to his or her credit in his or her individual account, without interest. Any member receiving a refund shall thereby forfeit and relinquish all accrued rights as a member of the system together with credits for total service previously granted to the member; provided, however, that if any member who has received a refund shall subsequently reenter the service and again become a member of the system, he or she shall have the privilege of restoring all money previously received or disbursed to his or her credit as a refund of contributions, plus regular interest for the period from the date of refund to the date of the restoration. Upon the repayment of such refund including accrued interest as herein provided, the member shall again receive credit for the amount of total service which he or she had previously forfeited by the acceptance of the refund. The restoration of that credit shall be permitted only after the member shall have rendered at least one year of continuous service following his or her latest reentry into service for which he or she shall have made contributions to this system.History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2334, § 9; G.L. 1938, ch. 18, §§ 9, 10; P.L. 1947, ch. 1971, § 9; G.L. 1956, § 36-10-8; P.L. 1976, ch. 315, § 1; P.L. 1981, ch. 163, § 2; P.L. 1999, ch. 344, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 356, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 408, § 7; P.L. 2011, ch. 409, § 7.
RI Gen L § 36-10-9.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-10 - Retirement System - Contributions and Benefits|Section 36-10-9.3 - Retirement on service allowance - Registered nurses.

§ 36-10-9.3. Retirement on service allowance — Registered nurses.(a) This section shall apply to the retirement of members employed as registered nurses within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.(b) Any member who has attained the age of fifty (50) years may be retired subsequent to the proper execution and filing of written application; provided, however, that the member shall have completed twenty-five (25) years of total service within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals and who retires before October 1, 2009, or is eligible to retire as of September 30, 2009.(c) For members who become eligible to retire on or after October 1, 2009, benefits are available to members who have attained the age of fifty-five (55) and have completed at least twenty-five (25) years of total service within the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. For members in service as of October 1, 2009, who were not eligible to retire as of September 30, 2009, but who are eligible to retire on or prior to June 30, 2012, the minimum retirement age of fifty-five (55), the retirement age will be adjusted downward in proportion to the amount of service the member has earned as of September 30, 2009. The proportional formula shall work as follows:(1) The formula shall determine the first age of retirement eligibility under the laws in effect on September 30, 2009, which shall then be subtracted from the minimum retirement age of fifty-five (55).(2) The formula shall then take the member's total service credit as of September 30, 2009, as the numerator and the years of service credit determined under (1) as the denominator.(3) The fraction determined in (2) shall then be multiplied by the age difference determined in (1) to apply a reduction in years from age fifty-five (55).History of Section.P.L. 1983, ch. 211, § 2; P.L. 2009, ch. 68, art. 7, § 3; P.L. 2011, ch. 363, § 30; P.L. 2011, ch. 408, § 7; P.L. 2011, ch. 409, § 7.