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KS Stat § 72-2663 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2663 Same; retirement conditions.

72-2663. Same; retirement conditions. Any teacher who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of thirty years of teaching experience may be retired by such board of education. Any teacher so retired under the foregoing provisions of this section, provided that at least twenty years of such accredited teaching experience shall have been in the public schools of such cities of the first class, shall be entitled to receive from such retirement fund so long as such teacher may live, equal monthly payments which shall aggregate five hundred dollars per annum: Provided, however, That no one shall receive such pension without paying into the fund therefor, by way of assessment or otherwise not less than the amount of the first annual pension to which such person shall be entitled. And in order to make up such an amount the board of education may provide for any deficiency by deducting the necessary amount from the first year's pension payments in equal amounts each month.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 3; R.S. 1923, 72-1728; L. 1935, ch. 257, § 3; May 15.
KS Stat § 72-2664 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2664 Same; disability or incapacity; reinstatement.

72-2664. Same; disability or incapacity; reinstatement. Any teacher who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of twenty-five or more years of teaching experience may be retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Any teacher so retired, provided that at least fifteen years of such accredited teaching experience shall have been in the public schools of said cities, shall be entitled to receive from such retirement fund, during the period of retirement, monthly installments, the annual aggregate of which shall be such percentage of five hundred dollars as the number of years of such accredited teaching experience of the beneficiary shall bear to the term of thirty years. Any teacher so retired may, at the discretion of the board of education, should such teacher's incapacity or disability be removed, be reinstated as a teacher, and any right to any payments from this fund until such teacher again be retired shall cease with such reinstatement. And shall any teacher be so reinstated, the years of such retirement shall be included in arriving at the term of service when such teacher may again be retired, but no credit for such years of retirement shall be given in arriving at the amount such teacher shall be entitled to receive from the retirement fund.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 4; R.S. 1923, 72-1729; L. 1935, ch. 257, § 4; May 15.
KS Stat § 72-2665 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2665 Same; refunds; transfers to another city operating under this act; payment to heirs, when.

72-2665. Same; refunds; transfers to another city operating under this act; payment to heirs, when. If at any time a teacher who is willing to continue is not re-employed or is discharged before the time when he or she would, under the provisions of this act, be entitled to a pension, then such teacher shall be paid back at once the money he or she may have contributed under this act. Should a teacher duly accredited in a city of the first class accept service in the public schools of any other city of the first class, operating under this law, a sum equivalent to all payments made by such teacher into the retirement fund shall be transferred to the retirement fund of the city in which such service is accepted. Any teacher who shall retire voluntarily from the service, shall receive a refund of one-half of the money he or she shall have contributed under this act. And should any teacher die before receiving any of the benefits or pensions by this act provided, the board of education shall pay to such teacher's heirs or estate one-half of the amount, without interest, which shall have been paid into such pension fund by said teacher.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 5; R.S. 1923, 72-1730; L. 1935, ch. 257, § 5; May 15.
KS Stat § 72-2666 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2666 Same; teacher defined.

72-2666. Same; teacher defined. In construing this act, the word teacher shall include all members of the teaching staff employed by the board of education of such city, which shall include superintendents, supervisors and assistants to the superintendent of instruction, principals, and teachers.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 6; May 22; R.S. 1923, 72-1731.
KS Stat § 72-2667 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2667 Same; fund kept separate; disbursement.

72-2667. Same; fund kept separate; disbursement. It is hereby made the duty of the treasurer of the board of education of such city to keep any fund arising under the provisions of this act as a separate fund, and to disburse the same in accordance with the instructions and orders of the board of education of such city.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 7; R.S. 1923, 72-1732; L. 1935, ch. 257, § 6; May 15.
KS Stat § 72-2668 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2668 Same; exemption of salary and waiver of benefits; time for requesting.

72-2668. Same; exemption of salary and waiver of benefits; time for requesting. After said retirement fund shall be created by said board of education of such city, the salary of any teacher regularly employed by such city shall be exempt from the provisions of this act, provided such teacher shall make a request in writing for such exemption and file the same with the board of education of such city within one month after the effective date of this act or within one month after such teacher shall enter upon such regular employment as a teacher, and such request, when filed with the board of education of such city, shall constitute a waiver and a bar to the receipt of any benefits from the retirement fund herein provided for.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 8; R.S. 1923, 72-1733; L. 1935, ch. 257, § 7; May 15.
KS Stat § 72-2669 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2669 Same; rules and regulations.

72-2669. Same; rules and regulations. The board of education shall have power to adopt rules and regulations for the carrying out of the purposes of this act not in conflict therewith.History: L. 1911, ch. 280, § 9; May 22; R.S. 1923, 72-1734.
KS Stat § 72-2670 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2670 Employees' retirement fund in certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; definitions.

72-2670. Employees' retirement fund in certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; definitions. Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context the following words and phrases, as used in this act, shall have the following meanings:(a) "School employee" shall mean any person regularly employed, and paid out of public funds, to perform services for the school district, and shall include all teachers, principals, superintendents, supervisors, librarians, clerks, secretaries, school nurses, attendance officers, managers, engineers, building superintendents, maintenance and repairmen, custodians, and all other persons regularly employed by the board of education.(b) "Regularly employed" shall mean employed for the major part of the working days, as distinguished from being employed as a substitute or for part-time work or less than a major part of the time.(c) "A school service year" shall mean a twelve-month period during which a school employee has received at least one-half of his normal annual salary.(d) "School annuitant" shall mean any person who is entitled to receive a school annuity or a disability annuity.(e) "School annuity" shall mean the annual payment due to any school annuitant. Such annual payment shall continue for life, and be paid in equal monthly installments.(f) "Disability annuity" shall mean a school annuity granted to a school employee who suffers such physical or mental disability as to be unable to perform school service.(g) "Salary" shall mean the amount actually paid to the school employee for personal services plus the amount, if any, paid by the board of education toward an annuity for the school employee.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 360, § 1; June 30.
KS Stat § 72-2673 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2673 Employees' retirement fund; certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; disbursement and investment of fund.

72-2673. Employees' retirement fund; certain cities between 120,000 and 200,000; disbursement and investment of fund. Such a retirement fund when thus created and maintained or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be disbursed in the manner hereinafter set forth. And any surplus of fund not needed for immediate disbursement shall be invested by the board of education of such school district acting as trustees of such fund as provided in K.S.A. 72-17,125.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 3; L. 1973, ch. 282, § 2; July 1.
KS Stat § 72-2675 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2675 Annuity payment options.

72-2675. Annuity payment options. Any school employee may elect to have his school annuity paid under one of the options provided in this section in lieu of having it paid as provided by K.S.A. 72-1761 and any amendments thereto. Such election must be made at least one (1) year before date of actual retirement unless the school employee submits evidence, satisfactory to the board, of his good health: Provided, That if option A is elected, and the spouse or a dependent of the member is named joint annuitant, such good health requirement will be waived. A specific person must be designated as joint annuitant at the time of election of option A or B.The amount of retirement benefit payable under an option shall be based on the age and sex of the school employee and, if applicable, the age and sex of the joint annuitant, and shall be such amount as to be the actuarial equivalent of the school annuity otherwise provided.The retirement options are:Option A. Joint and one-half to joint annuitant survivor. A reduced annuity is payable to the annuitant during his lifetime with one-half (1/2) of that amount continued to his joint annuitant during such joint annuitant's remaining lifetime, if any, after the death of the annuitant.Option B. Joint and survivor. A reduced annuity is payable to the annuitant during his lifetime with that amount continued to the joint annuitant during the joint annuitant's remaining lifetime, if any, after the death of annuitant.Option C. Life with ten years certain. A reduced annuity is payable to the annuitant during his lifetime and if he dies within the ten-year certain period, measured from the commencement of annuity payments, such payments will be continued to his beneficiary during the balance of the ten-year certain period.If a school employee, who is eligible to retire, dies without having actually retired, the school employee's spouse, if the spouse is beneficiary for the school employee's accumulated contributions, may elect to receive benefits as a joint annuitant under option A, calculated as if the school employee retired on date of death, in lieu of receiving the school employee's accumulated contributions.Annuities payable to a joint annuitant shall accrue from the first day of the month following the death of a school employee or annuitant and, in the case of option A and option B, shall end on the first day of the month in which the joint annuitant dies.History: L. 1967, ch. 384, § 7; July 1.
KS Stat § 72-2676 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2676 Same; disability annuities; medical examinations.

72-2676. Same; disability annuities; medical examinations. Any school employee who has been credited under the rules and regulations of such board of education with an aggregate of fifteen (15) or more years of school service to said board may be retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Any school employee so retired shall be entitled to receive a disability annuity from such retirement fund, during the period of retirement in equal monthly installments, beginning the month following such retirement. The annual aggregate shall be one-half (1/2) of the average annual salary for any five (5) years in which the highest compensation was received during the last ten (10) years of service to said board of education multiplied by a fraction of which the denominator is thirty (30) and the numerator is the number of years of school service credited to such employee, and multiplied further by a fraction of which the denominator is thirty (30) and numerator is thirty (30) minus one and one-half (1 1/2) times the number of years which the employee's age at retirement lacks of being sixty (60): Provided, That in no case shall the numerator of the first-mentioned fraction be more than thirty (30) and the numerator of the last-mentioned fraction be less than ten (10): Provided further, Prior school service shall be credited to the school employee's service record up to and including, but not in excess of twenty (20) years before September 1, 1939.The board is authorized to provide for medical examinations and to secure other evidence at the expense of the retirement fund for any school employee retired by such board of education on account of disability or incapacity, physical or otherwise. Such medical examinations shall be repeated at least once in every three (3) years, and may be ordered at any time until the annuitant attains age sixty (60). In case any person receiving a disability annuity shall recover, or if he shall refuse to be examined, then the disability annuity shall cease. In case any person receives a disability annuity and later recovers and returns to school service, the service records of that person shall include all school service, both before and after disability.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 5; L. 1943, ch. 252, § 2; L. 1949, ch. 367, § 2; L. 1963, ch. 360, § 2; L. 1967, ch. 384, § 3; July 1.
KS Stat § 72-2677 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2677 Same; application of act.

72-2677. Same; application of act. The first monthly installments of school annuities and disability annuities and salary and wage deductions under this act shall begin in September of the year in which this act takes effect. This act shall apply only to the school employees of the board of education at the time this act takes effect and to those employed subsequently: Provided, This act [*] shall not apply to persons whose employment begins after January 1, 1964, and the effective date of a statute providing for payments to the board of education from the state school retirement fund.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 6; L. 1963, ch. 361, § 2; June 30.* "This act," see also, 72-2672.
KS Stat § 72-2679 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2679 Same; credit for service in armed forces; payment of contributions.

72-2679. Same; credit for service in armed forces; payment of contributions. Any school employee whose school service is interrupted at any time or has been interrupted subsequent to September 1, 1939, for involuntary service in the armed forces of the United States or, in time of war, for voluntary service in the armed forces of the United States, may, within one year after his return to the status of a school employee, or within one year after this act is in effect, upon application to the board of education, receive credit for the school service years otherwise lost by his service in the armed forces of the United States, by paying to the retirement fund the contributions he would have paid had he remained an employee of the board of education, the contributions to be computed on the basis of payments made during those years by employees in similar positions remaining in the service of the board of education. The board of education shall have the right to make provisions for receiving payment of such sums in installments within a period of not more than three years following date of application, by agreement with the employee.History: L. 1949, ch. 367, § 4; June 30.
KS Stat § 72-2680 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2680 Same; fund kept separate; disbursement.

72-2680. Same; fund kept separate; disbursement. It is hereby made the duty of the treasurer of the board of education of such city to keep any fund arising under the provisions of this act as a separate fund, and to disburse the same in accordance with the instructions and order of the board of education of such city.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 8; Apr 3.
KS Stat § 72-2681 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2681 Same; employees unable to qualify exempt from assessment; authority of board of education.

72-2681. Same; employees unable to qualify exempt from assessment; authority of board of education. After said retirement fund shall be created by said board of education of such city, the salaries of all school employees shall be subject to assessments according to the provisions of this act: Provided, No assessments shall be made against the salary of any school employee employed by the board of education at the time this act takes effect who will be unable to qualify for a school annuity under the provisions of this act. The board of education shall be authorized and directed to furnish information and a copy of the annual audit of the retirement fund to authorized representatives of the school employees, and to make salary and wage deductions.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 9; Apr. 3.
KS Stat § 72-2682 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2682 Same; limitations on employment.

72-2682. Same; limitations on employment. No person shall be employed or continue in the employment of the board of education for any school service to which this act applies, after August 31 of the year in which such person attains age 70. Nor shall any person continue as a school employee after receiving the first installment of a school annuity, or while receiving a disability annuity provided by this act, except that any school employee so retired may perform school service as a substitute employee. No assessments shall be made against the salary of, nor service credit granted, any person while thus employed.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 10; L. 1967, ch. 483, § 5; L. 1987, ch. 299, § 8; July 1.
KS Stat § 72-2683 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2683 Same; payments exempt from execution.

72-2683. Same; payments exempt from execution. Any payments made or to be made, as provided in this act, shall not be assignable or subject to sale or execution and shall not be subject to garnishment or attachment.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 11; Apr. 3.
KS Stat § 72-2684 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2684 Same; annuities exempt from income tax.

72-2684. Same; annuities exempt from income tax. No school annuities paid under this act [*] shall be subject to taxation under the Kansas income tax act.History: L. 1957, ch. 391, § 2; Apr. 13.* "This act," see also, 72-2671, 72-2678.
KS Stat § 72-2685 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2685 Same; rules and regulations.

72-2685. Same; rules and regulations. The board of education shall have power to adopt rules and regulations for the carrying out of the purposes of this act not in conflict therewith.History: L. 1939, ch. 264, § 12; Apr. 3.
KS Stat § 72-2686 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2686 Actuary; duties.

72-2686. Actuary; duties. The board of education shall select and employ or retain a qualified actuary who shall serve at its pleasure as its technical advisor on matters regarding the operation of the retirement fund. The actuary shall:(a) At least once every three (3) years make a valuation of the liabilities and reserves of the retirement fund and a determination of the contributions required by the retirement fund, to discharge its liabilities, and recommend to the board of education rates of employee salary assessment.(b) Recommend actuarial tables for use in calculating actuarial equivalent values.(c) Perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board.History: L. 1967, ch. 384, § 8; July 1.
KS Stat § 72-2687 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 72 - Schools|Article 26 - School District Employee Retirement Systems|72-2687 Retirement fund, certain cities; assessments; tax levy, use of proceeds; gifts.

72-2687. Retirement fund, certain cities; assessments; tax levy, use of proceeds; gifts. In any city of the first class in the state of Kansas having a population of more than eighty thousand and less than one hundred twenty thousand, there may be created by the board of education of such city a retirement fund for board of education employees, which fund, when created, and the management and disbursement thereof, shall be under the control of the board of education of such city except that this act shall not apply to any teachers or other employees while they are members of and participating in a separate school retirement system or fund operated by said board of education. Such retirement fund shall be created and maintained in the following manner:First, By an assessment of not less than one percent nor more than six percent of every installment of salary paid to such board of education employee in such city.Second, By the setting aside by the board of education of such city of an amount which shall be not less than one and one-half times the amount of salary assessments, and not less than the amount necessary to meet the payments herein provided for; such amount and an amount to pay a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by cities under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, for the financing of redevelopment projects upon property located within the school district may be raised by special levy and none of the debt or tax limitations provided by law shall apply to such levy made under this act, except that in no event shall such levy exceed one-quarter mill on each dollar of assessed valuation of real and personal property located within the taxing district of said board of education.Third, By the receipt, by gift or otherwise, of any real, personal, or mixed property, or any interest therein.History: L. 1941, ch. 339, § 1; L. 1953, ch. 327, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 52, § 171; July 1.