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SC Code § 9-10-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 10 - National Guard Retirement System|Section 9-10-30. Eligibility.

 Every member of the National Guard of South Carolina who became a member of the National Guard of South Carolina before July 1, 1993, and meets the requirements set forth in this section shall receive from the National Guard Retirement System, commencing at age sixty, a pension of fifty dollars a month for twenty years creditable military service with an additional five dollars per month for each additional year of creditable military service. However, the total pension may not exceed one hundred dollars a month. The requirements for the pension are that each member shall have:  (1) served and qualified for at least twenty years creditable military service, including National Guard, reserve, and active duty, under the same requirement specified for entitlement to retired pay for nonregular service under Chapter 67, Title 10, United States Code;  (2) at least fifteen years of the service described in item (1) of this subsection as a member of the National Guard of South Carolina with the final or last ten years of service immediately before retirement in the National Guard of South Carolina;  (3) received an honorable discharge from the National Guard of South Carolina.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 155, Section 1, eff January 1, 2006.
SC Code § 9-10-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 10 - National Guard Retirement System|Section 9-10-35. Eligibility for pension.

 A person who becomes a member of the National Guard after June 30, 1993, if otherwise eligible, may receive a National Guard pension authorized by this chapter. The provisions of this section apply to National Guard pension benefits payable on or after January 1, 2007.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 343, Section 1, eff June 25, 2008.
SC Code § 9-10-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 10 - National Guard Retirement System|Section 9-10-40. Restrictions; payments to beneficiaries; members of regular armed forces.

 (A) Payment to a retired member of the system pursuant to this chapter is for the life of the retired member and no payment may be made to beneficiaries or to the decedent's estate, except that the retirement allowance for the month the retired member died, if not previously paid to the member, must be paid to the member's estate.  (B) No individual receiving retired pay as a result of length of service, age, or physical disability retirement from any of the regular components of the Armed Forces of the United States are eligible for benefits under this chapter.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 155, Section 1, eff January 1, 2006.
SC Code § 9-10-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 10 - National Guard Retirement System|Section 9-10-50. Entitlement to other retirement; income tax exemption.

 (A) Nothing contained in this chapter precludes or in any way affects the benefits that an individual may be entitled to from state, federal, or private retirement systems.  (B) Benefits paid pursuant to this chapter are exempt from the South Carolina income tax.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 155, Section 1, eff January 1, 2006.
SC Code § 9-10-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 10 - National Guard Retirement System|Section 9-10-60. Eligibility; appropriation and use of funds.

 (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person who becomes a member of the National Guard of South Carolina after June 30, 1993, is ineligible to receive the pension authorized by this chapter.  (B) Persons with a break in service remain eligible for pension benefits under this chapter if the person was a member of the National Guard of South Carolina before July 1, 1993.  (C) [Reserved]  (D) The General Assembly annually shall appropriate sums sufficient to establish and maintain the National Guard Retirement System on a sound actuarial basis as determined by the board.  (E) Assets and funds of the National Guard Retirement System must be used to pay obligations to persons entitled to receive benefits under this chapter and may not be diverted or used for any other purpose.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 155, Section 1, eff January 1, 2006; 2006 Act No. 264, Section 4, eff May 2, 2006; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 52, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-10-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 10 - National Guard Retirement System|Section 9-10-70. Exemption of fund property from taxes.

 All property owned or acquired by the system for the purposes of this chapter is exempt from all taxes imposed by the State or any political subdivision of the State.  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 155, Section 1, eff January 1, 2006.
SC Code § 9-11-15 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-15. Payments to beneficiaries may include payments to persons, trustees, and estates.

 Payments made to beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may include payments to a person or persons, trustees, and estates.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 412, Section 6, eff January 1, 1991.
SC Code § 9-11-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-20. System created; corporate powers; name; director.

 (1) A retirement system is hereby created and placed under the administration of the Board to provide retirement allowances and other benefits for police officers. The System shall begin operation as of July 1, 1962. It shall have the power and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System, 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.  (2) There is hereby created an office to be known as Director of the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System. The Director of the South Carolina Retirement System shall serve as Director of this System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-332; 1962 (52) 1933; 1974 (58) 2032.
SC Code § 9-11-25 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-25. Retirement of probate judges.

 Probate judges may elect to participate in the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System or they may elect to remain under regular state retirement.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 678, Part IV, Section 5, eff January 1, 1989; 1992 Act No. 336, Section 4, eff May 4, 1992.
SC Code § 9-11-27 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-27. Magistrates' participation in the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System.

 (A) On and after January 1, 2001, any person who is a magistrate appointed pursuant to Section 22-1-10 shall participate in the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System for his service as a magistrate.  (B) From July 1, 2000, to January 1, 2001, a magistrate who elects to transfer credited service received under the South Carolina Retirement System to the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System may do so upon payment of the accumulated employer and employee contributions and interest in the South Carolina Retirement System plus five percent of his annual salary in effect as of June 30, 2000, for each year of service prorated for periods of less than a year. After January 1, 2001, a magistrate may elect to transfer credited service received under the South Carolina Retirement System to the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System as provided in Section 9-11-40(9).  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 226, Section 3, eff July 1, 2000.  Editor's Note  2000 Act No. 226 Section 1, effective July 1, 2000, reads as follows:  "This act is known and may be cited as the 'Magistrates Court Reform Act of 2000'."
SC Code § 9-11-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-35. Confidentiality of member records.

 All records of all active, retired, and inactive members maintained by the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System 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 38, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-11-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-45. Employer may require members of local retirement system to become members of South Carolina Police Officers' Retirement System; maintenance of local system.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9-11-40, an employer who maintains a local retirement system for police officers prior to the date of admission may require all active members of that system to become members of this System on the date of admission. If this option is exercised, all assets of the local retirement system including accumulated member contributions, if any, not needed to meet the local retirement system's retiree liability, if any, must be transferred to this System as of the date of admission. Any actuarial accrued liabilities realized by the System on account of the transfer, as determined by the Board's actuary and not met by transferred assets, must be paid by the employer in a lump sum or in installments over a period not to exceed ten years, as the Board under uniform rules may determine. The asset transfer and employer payment, if required by this subsection, is in lieu of any other payments that would otherwise be required by this section.  The Board's actuary shall determine, for the protection of the current retirees of the local system, the amount of retainage necessary by the employer to meet this retiree liability and to have adequate revenue therefor; and the same must be retained and escrowed by the employer which will have the continuing responsibility to see that all retirement payments continue at present levels for current retirees until the death of the last survivor, including any costs of living increases in future years provided for in the local system plan.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 175, Section 1.
SC Code § 9-11-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-60. Retirement allowances; retirement after age fifty-five; purchases of additional service credit.

 (1) A member may retire upon written application to the system setting forth at what time, no 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 the member at the time specified for the member's service retirement has:  (a) five or more years of earned service or eight or more years of such service for a Class Three member;  (b) attained the age of fifty-five years or has twenty-five or more years of credited service, or twenty-seven or more years of such service for a Class Three member; and  (c) separated from service.  (2) Upon service retirement on or after July 1, 1989, the member shall receive a service retirement allowance which is equal to the sum of (a), (b), and (c) below:  (a) a monthly retirement allowance equal to ten dollars and ninety-seven cents multiplied by the number of years of his Class One service;  (b) a monthly retirement allowance equal to one-twelfth of two and fourteen hundredths percent of his average final compensation multiplied by the number of years of his Class Two or Class Three service;  (c) an additional monthly retirement allowance which is the actuarial equivalent of the member's accumulated additional contributions.  The sum of the retirement allowances computed under (a) and (b) above may not be less than the allowance which would have been provided under (a) if all of the member's credited service were Class One service. For a police officer who became a member before July 1, 1974, and who was a participant in the Supplemental Allowance Program, the portion of his service retirement allowance not provided by his accumulated contributions may not be less than it would have been if the provisions of the System in effect on June 30, 1974, had continued in effect until his date of retirement.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-336; 1962 (52) 1933; 1969 (56) 25; 1970 (56) 1938; 1971 (57) 66; 1973 (58) 106; 1974 (58) 2032; 1975 (59) 154; 1977 Act No. 42 Section 2; 1986 Act No. 450, Section 2, eff May 26, 1986; 1988 Act No. 424, Section 1, eff July 1, 1988 (effective for members of the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System retiring after June 30, 1988, and for contributions made after June 30, 1988); 1989 Act No. 189, Part II, Section 60F, eff July 1, 1989 (became law without the Governor's signature); 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 67L, eff January 1, 2001; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt III, Section 22, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-11-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-100. Members who stop police work may withdraw contributions.

 Should a member cease to render service as a police officer to an employer, except by reason of his death or retirement, he shall be paid the amount of his accumulated contributions within six months after his demand therefor, but not less than ninety days after ceasing to be a police officer.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-340; 1962 (52) 1933; 1967 (55) 507; 1974 (58) 2032.
SC Code § 9-11-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-110. Lump sum paid in event of death.

 (1) Upon the death of any member prior to retirement, a lump-sum amount shall be paid to such person as he shall have nominated by written designation filed with the board, otherwise to his estate. If the member is in service at the time of his death, such lump-sum amount shall be equal to the sum of (a) and (b) below:  (a) his accumulated contributions, excluding any additional contributions, or one thousand dollars, whichever is greater; and  (b) his accumulated additional contributions. If the member is not in service at the time of his death, such lump-sum amount shall be the amount of his accumulated contributions.  (2) Upon the death of a member who did not select a survivor option or who selected a survivor option and the member's designated beneficiary predeceased the member, a lump sum amount must be paid to the member's designated beneficiary or the member's estate if total member contributions and accrued interest at the member's retirement exceed the sum of the retirement allowances paid to the member. Upon the death of a designated beneficiary selected under a survivor option, a lump sum amount must be paid to the beneficiary's estate if total member contributions and accrued interest at the member's retirement exceed the sum of the retirement allowances paid to the member and the member's beneficiary. The lump sum payment must be the total member contributions and accrued interest at retirement less the sum of the retirement allowances paid to the member or in the case of a survivor option, the total member contributions and accrued interest at retirement less the sum of the retirement allowances paid to the member and the member's designated beneficiary.  (3) An active contributing member making the nomination provided under subsection (1) of this section also may name contingent beneficiaries in the same manner that beneficiaries are named. A contingent beneficiary has no rights under this chapter unless all beneficiaries nominated by the member have predeceased the member and the member's death occurs while in service. In this instance, a contingent beneficiary is considered the member's beneficiary for purposes of subsection (1) of this section and Section 9-11-130, if applicable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-341; 1962 (52) 1933; 1974 (58) 2032; 1977 Act No. 29 Section 1; 1984 Act No. 384, Section 6; 1995 Act No. 139, Section 5, eff June 28, 1995; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 67U, eff January 1, 2001; 2018 Act No. 149 (H.4869), Section 4, eff July 1, 2018.  Effect of Amendment  2018 Act No. 149, Section 4, in (1), substituted "written designation filed with the board, otherwise to his estate" for "written designation, duly acknowledged and filed with the Board, otherwise to his estate", and made nonsubstantive changes.
SC Code § 9-11-125 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-125. Death Benefit Plan.

 (A) The Death Benefit Plan for members of the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System, hereinafter referred to as the "plan", is established for the purpose of providing for the payment of the benefits provided by Section 9-11-120.  (B) A separate fund, to be known as the Death Benefit Plan Reserve Fund, is established within the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System, hereinafter referred to as the "retirement system", to be held in trust by the board. The fund shall consist of all contributions paid by the employers and other monies received and paid into the fund for death benefit purposes, and of the investment earnings on these monies, and must be used only to pay the death benefits prescribed by subsection (C). Concurrent with the determination of the initial liability of the plan for the balance of the fiscal year on and after the effective date of the benefit, for the death benefit provided and to be paid for pursuant to this plan, there must be segregated and transferred from the Employer Annuity Accumulation Fund of the retirement system to the reserve fund created by this section the amounts determined by the actuary to be necessary to pay anticipated death benefit claims. Subsequent segregations and transfers must be made as required to pay the benefit prescribed by subsection (C) from the reserve fund provided by this section.  (C) At the death of a member who has met the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 9-11-120 a benefit equal to the death benefit provided by Section 9-11-120 must be paid to the person nominated by the member in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-11-120 or to the member's estate.  (D) The actuary shall investigate the experience of the plan as provided by Section 9-11-30. On the basis of the investigations and upon the recommendation of the actuary, as provided in Section 9-11-120, the board shall certify the contribution rates computed to be necessary to fund the death benefits authorized to be paid by the plan. As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the board shall determine the contribution rates which the employers participating in the plan are required to pay into the reserve fund to discharge the obligations of the plan for the past fiscal year.  (E) Each qualified member of the retirement system is to be covered as provided in this section effective commencing as of June 19, 1973.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 42, eff June 4, 2008; 2010 Act No. 176, Section 6, eff May 19, 2010.
SC Code § 9-11-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-130. Survivor may elect to receive allowance for life in lieu of lump-sum payment.

 (1) The person nominated by a member pursuant to Section 9-11-110 to receive a lump sum amount if the member dies before retirement may, if the member:  (a) has five or more years of earned service or eight or more years of such service for a Class Three member;  (b) dies in service; and  (c) has either attained age fifty-five or has accumulated fifteen years of creditable service, elect to receive in lieu of the lump sum amount otherwise payable under Section 9-11-110(1)(a) an allowance for life in the same amount as if the deceased member had retired at the time of his death and had named the person as beneficiary under an election of Option B pursuant to Section 9-11-150(A).  For purposes of the benefit calculation, a member who is not yet eligible for service retirement is assumed to be fifty-five years of age.  (2) The person nominated may also elect to receive in lieu of the member's accumulated additional contributions, or a portion of it, an allowance for life which must be the actuarial equivalent of the amount of those contributions left on deposit under the System.  (3) Regardless of whether a member is in service, if a member dies before retirement and, at the time of the member's death, was eligible to receive a service retirement allowance pursuant to Section 9-11-60 or Section 9-11-70, the person nominated by a member pursuant to Section 9-11-110 to receive a lump sum amount if the member dies before retirement may elect to receive, in lieu of the lump sum amount otherwise payable, an allowance for life in the same amount as if the deceased member had retired at the time of the member's death and had named the person as beneficiary under an election of Option B under Section 9-11-150(A).  (4) If a member has designated more than one beneficiary pursuant to Section 9-11-110 to receive a lump sum amount if the member dies before retirement, and if those beneficiaries become eligible to elect an allowance pursuant to this section upon the member's death, all of the beneficiaries must elect the allowance in order for the allowance to become payable in lieu of the lump sum amount otherwise payable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-341.2; 1971 (57) 66; 1974 (58) 2032; 1978 Act No. 644 Part II Section 33; 1981 Act No. 133, Section 3; 1983 Act No. 26, Section 3; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II Section 48F; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 67O, eff January 1, 2001; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt III, Section 26, Pt IV, Subpt 3, Section 66.B, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-11-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 11 - Police Officers Retirement System|Section 9-11-160. Allowances paid monthly.

 All retirement allowances are payable in monthly installments. Upon the death of a retired member, the retirement allowance for the month the retired member died, if not previously paid, must be paid to the member's designated beneficiary, if the beneficiary is living at the time of the member's death, otherwise to the member's estate. If the retired member elected a survivor option pursuant to the optional forms of allowances in Section 9-11-150, any allowance payable to a survivor beneficiary commences in the month after the death of the retired member.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-343; 1962 (52) 1933; 1974 (58) 2032; 2001 Act No. 1, Part II, Section 2B6, eff July 1, 2000.