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LA Rev Stat § 11:3017 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3017. Short title

RS 3017 - Short title  This Part shall be known and cited as the City of Alexandria Employees' Retirement Law.  Designated from Acts 1948, No. 459, §15 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3031 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3031. Creation of Retirement System for employees of City of Bogalusa

RS 3031 - Creation of Retirement System for employees of City of Bogalusa There shall be and is hereby created the City of Bogalusa Retirement System for appointive officers and permanent employees of such City, for the payment of retirement annuities, disability annuities, and death and withdrawal benefits to said officers and employees, and annuities and benefits to their dependents and beneficiaries, after stated periods of service and upon fulfillment of certain conditions as hereinafter set forth. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3032 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3032. Purpose of system

RS 3032 - Purpose of system The purpose of such system is to provide retirement annuities and other benefits for the appointive officers and employees of the City of Bogalusa who become aged or otherwise incapacitated, thereby enabling them to accumulate reserves for themselves and their dependents to meet, without prejudice or hardship, the hazards of old age, disability, death, and termination of employment, with the objective of encouraging qualified personnel to enter and remain in the service of the City, thus effecting economy and efficiency in the administration of the City. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §2, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3033 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3033. Definitions

RS 3033 - Definitions A. Words and phrases wherever used in this Part, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context, shall have the following meaning: (1) "Average salary" shall mean the average annual earnable rate of salary of a member for the thirty-six highest consecutive months during the total service of the member. (2) "Board" shall mean the Retirement Board of the City of Bogalusa Retirement System. (3) "City" shall mean the city of Bogalusa, Louisiana. (4) "Council" shall mean the City Commission Council of Bogalusa, Louisiana. (5) "Effective date" shall mean July 1, 1953. (6) "Employee" shall mean any appointive officer or employee of the city now or hereafter employed by the city, whose services are compensated by the city in whole or in part, who is not covered by any existing pension fund maintained by the city. (7) "Fiscal Year" shall mean the period from July first of one year to June thirtieth of the year next succeeding. (8) "Member" shall mean any employee included in the membership of the system. (9) "Regular interest" shall mean such rate of interest as is fixed by the board provided that for the first five years of operation of the system the rate shall be three percent per annum compounded annually. (10) "Salary" shall mean the amount of compensation earned by a member as an employee of the city. (11) "System" shall mean the City of Bogalusa Retirement System. (12) "Total service" shall mean service rendered before the operative date of the system, and subsequent thereto. B. The masculine pronoun, wherever used, shall include the feminine pronoun. Acts 1952, No. 184, §3; Designated from Acts 1985, No. 626, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3034 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3034. Membership

RS 3034 - Membership A. The following described employees shall be compulsorily included as members of the system: (1) All appointive officers and employees in the service of the City on the day preceding the effective date, who are employed on a permanent basis, excepting, however, those appointive officers and employees as herein set forth who shall, within fifteen calendar days from the effective date, give written notice to the Board, or in the event said Board has not been duly appointed or chosen, to the Commission Council of the City of Bogalusa through its City Clerk, of their election not to become a member of the system or plan provided for under the provisions of this Part. (2) All persons employed by the City on or after the effective date in the position of an appointive officer or employee, who are employed on a permanent basis and are under the age of sixty years on the date of employment. (3) Any person, regardless of age, who is on an approved leave of absence for sickness, military service, vacation or other cause, on the effective date. B. The board shall determine who are employees subject to membership within the meaning or intent of this Part. Redesignated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §4 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3035 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3035. Exclusions from membership

RS 3035 - Exclusions from membership Persons whose services are compensated on a contractual or fee basis, seasonal or part-time employees in positions which will not permit service of at least six months during a calendar year, elective officials, members of the Council, the medical examiner, those persons electing not to become a member of the system herein provided for as set forth under the provisions of R.S. 11:3034(A)(1), and persons who are members of any existing pension fund maintained by the City, shall not be subject to membership in the system. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §5, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3036 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3036. Service credit

RS 3036 - Service credit A.(1) Each member shall receive credit for service rendered as an employee of the City prior to the effective date for which he shall have received salary. (2) Each member shall receive credit for service rendered on or after the effective date for which he shall have received salary and for which he shall have made contributions. B. The board shall determine by rule the amount of service in any year that is equivalent to a year of service. In no case shall less than twelve days of service, nor less than nine months of service constitute a year of service. Proportionate credit shall be granted for service of less than nine months of service during a year. Not more than one year of service credit shall be allowed for all service rendered during any one calendar year. C. Credit as service for the purposes of this Part shall be granted for any time a member shall have served in the armed forces of the United States after September 23, 1940, during War or during the national emergency proclaimed by the President of the United States on December 16, 1950, provided the member shall have been an employee of the City on the date of entry into military service by enlistment or induction, and re-entered, or shall re-enter the service of the City within a period of six months after the date of termination of his military service. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §6, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3037 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3037. Conditions for retirement

RS 3037 - Conditions for retirement A. Any member in active service may retire on a service retirement annuity, upon his written application, at his option, provided such member shall be at least sixty years of age and shall have rendered at least ten years of total service, or shall have completed twenty-five years of service and attained age fifty, notwithstanding that withdrawal from service may have occurred prior to the time application is made. B. Any member whose withdrawal from service occurs prior to this attainment of age sixty, who shall have completed at least ten years of total service and who shall not have received from the systems a refund of his contributions, shall be entitled to a service retirement annuity upon application, upon or after his attainment of age sixty. C. On or after January 1, 1955, any member who shall have attained or shall attain the age of sixty-eight years shall be compulsorily retired, provided the board may continue a member in service beyond such age, but in no case shall such extension exceed a total of two years. D. Any member whose employment is terminated after having completed less than ten years of total service shall be entitled to receive a refund of his total contributions to the system, without interest. Designated from Acts 1967, No. 9, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3038 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3038. Amount of service retirement annuity

RS 3038 - Amount of service retirement annuity A. Upon retirement, a member shall be entitled to receive a service retirement annuity equal to two and two-thirds percent of average salary for each year of total service. B. A proportional amount of the annual rate of annuity shall be determined and granted for any fractional part of a year of service. C. The minimum amount of service retirement annuity in any case shall be twenty-five percent of average salary. The maximum service retirement annuity shall be sixty-six and two-thirds percent of average salary. Designated from Acts 1967, No. 9, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3039 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3039. Pension benefits; surviving spouse

RS 3039 - Pension benefits; surviving spouse Upon death of a member while on pension the surviving spouse shall receive seventy-five percent of the amount of pension received by the deceased at the time of death. This payment of seventy-five percent shall continue until death of surviving spouse, or until the time that he or she remarries. Designated from Acts 1956, No. 76, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3040 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3040. Death benefits; surviving spouse

RS 3040 - Death benefits; surviving spouse A. Upon death of a member while in active employment of the City, on vacation or sick leave, a death benefit shall be payable which shall consist of: (1) the accumulated contributions of the member, without interest; and (2) an amount equal to $500.00 for each full year of total service of the member, subject to a maximum payment of $3,000.00. In any case in which total service of the member has been less than one year, the payment under (2) hereof shall be that provided for one year of service. Part (1) of the death benefit shall be payable to the beneficiary designated by the member, or his estate if no such designation shall have been made. Part (2) of the death benefit shall be payable only to a beneficiary designated by the member who shall have an insurable interest in the life of the member. B. In lieu of the benefits provided by Subsection A hereof, the surviving spouse of any member who dies while in active employment of the City, on vacation or sick leave and who, at the time of death, had the necessary qualifications for retirement but who has not at that time exercised the right to retire, may elect, at his or her option, to relinquish any right to benefits under Subsection A hereof and in such case shall be entitled to receive an amount equal to seventy-five percent of the monthly amount which the deceased would have been entitled to receive had he retired before death. This payment shall continue until the death or remarriage of the surviving spouse. C. If the member and surviving spouse, or either or both, prior to the death of the last survivor thereof, shall not have received in the form of service retirement annuity or reversionary annuity payments an amount at least equal to the accumulated contributions of the member, without interest, a refund of the remainder of such accumulated contributions, if any, shall be payable to such person as the member shall have nominated by written direction duly acknowledged and filed with the board. If no such nomination shall have been filed, payment shall he made to the estate of the member. The minimum payment in any such case shall be an amount equal to six months' payments on the service retirement annuity paid to the retired member. Designated from Acts 1958, No. 72, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3041 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3041. Disability retirement annuity; qualification

RS 3041 - Disability retirement annuity; qualification A. Any member who is less than sixty years of age, who shall have rendered at least ten years of total service and who shall become totally and permanently disabled for service, either mentally or physically, regardless of how or where the disability shall have occurred, shall be entitled to a disability retirement annuity. B. A member shall be considered as having a total and permanent disability only after the board shall have received written certification by at least two licensed and practicing physicians selected by the board, that the member is totally and likely to be permanently disabled for further performance of the duties of any assigned position in the service of the city. C. Such annuity shall begin to accrue upon expiration of ninety days following the commencement of disability, provided that if written application for such annuity is not filed with the board prior to the expiration of the ninety days and within the last thirty days of such period, the annuity shall begin to accrue as of the thirty days prior to the receipt of such application. D. The annual amount of disability retirement annuity shall be equal to one and one-half percent of average final compensation for each year of total service, subject to a minimum of twenty-five percent of average compensation and a maximum annual payment of fifty percent of average compensation. E. The disability annuity herein provided shall be subject to reduction by any amounts received or receivable by a member of worker's compensation under applicable worker's compensation laws. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §11, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014. NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).
LA Rev Stat § 11:3042 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3042. Administration of disability retirement annuity

RS 3042 - Administration of disability retirement annuity A. At least once each year during the first five years following the allowance of a disability retirement annuity to any member, and at least once in every three-year period thereafter, the board shall require any disability annuitant to undergo a medical examination to be made at the place of residence of said beneficiary, or any other place mutually agreed upon by a physician or physicians engaged by the board. If any examination indicates that the beneficiary is no longer physically or mentally incapacitated for service, or that he is engaged or is able to engage in a position similar to that previously held with the City, payments by the system shall be discontinued. B. Should such annuitant be engaged in any gainful occupation, and his earnings therefrom together with his disability annuity shall exceed the rate of earnable compensation of the member at the date of disability retirement, the disability retirement annuity shall be reduced to an amount which, when added to the compensation being earned by the member, shall not exceed such rate of earnable compensation. C. Should any disability annuitant refuse to submit to a medical examination as herein provided, payments by the system shall be discontinued until his withdrawal of such refusal, and should his refusal continue for one year, all rights of the member in any disability retirement annuity shall be revoked by the board. D. Any disability annuitant who is restored to active service shall participate fully under the provisions hereof to the same extent as any active member but such person shall not be entitled to credit as service for the period for which disability benefits shall have been paid. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §12, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3043 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3043. Withdrawal benefits

RS 3043 - Withdrawal benefits A. Upon complete separation from service, any member who is not eligible for a service retirement annuity shall be entitled to receive a refund of his accumulated contributions, without interest. Any member withdrawing from service who does not receive a refund and later returns to service shall receive credit for the amount of total service in force at the time of his separation from service. Any member receiving a refund shall thereby ipso facto forfeit, waive, and relinquish all accrued right in the system including all credited service. The board may, in its discretion, withhold payment of a refund for a period not to exceed one year after receipt of an application from a member. B. Any member who has received a refund shall be considered a new member upon subsequent reemployment if such person qualified for membership under the provision hereof. After the completion of at least five years of continuous membership service following his latest reemployment, such member shall have the right to make repayment to the system of the amount or amounts previously received as refund, including regular interest from the dates of refund to the date of repayment. Upon the restoration of such refunds, as herein provided, such member shall have reinstated to his account all credited service represented by the refunds of which repayment has been made. Repayment of refunds by any member shall include all refunds received by a member prior to the date of his last withdrawal from service and shall be made in a single sum. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §12, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3044 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3044. Contributions by members

RS 3044 - Contributions by members Each member of the system shall contribute six percent of compensation earned and accruing to such member. Special compensation, or additional fees, shall not be considered as earnings for contribution purposes. This contribution shall be made as a deduction from compensation, notwithstanding that the compensation paid in cash to such member shall be reduced thereby below the established rate. Every employee who is a member of the system shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deduction from compensation as herein provided, and payment to such employee of compensation less such deduction shall constitute a full or complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such employee during the period covered by such payment, except as to the benefits herein provided. Designated from Acts 1985, No. 626, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3045 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3045. Contributions by city

RS 3045 - Contributions by city A. The City shall make contributions to the system each year on an actuarially funded basis, towards the annuities and benefits herein provided. These contributions shall be equal to the sum of the following: (1) An amount resulting from the application of a rate percent of compensation of the members, representing the present value of the actuarial reserve requirements for membership service, for such year, for service retirement annuity and disability retirement annuity purposes, and the one-year term premium for the City's liability for death benefits on account of death of members occurring while in service. Such rate percent shall be fixed by the board annually, prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, upon recommendations of an actuary. For each of the first five fiscal years of operations the rate of contribution under this paragraph shall be seven and thirteen hundredths percent of members' compensation. (2)(a) An amount resulting from the application of a rate percent of compensation of the members which will amortize the remaining prior service liability over the remainder of a specified period, as determined by the board upon recommendation of the actuary, but not to exceed a period of thirty-five years following the effective date. For each of the first five fiscal years of operations this rate of contribution shall be three and forty-five hundredths percent of members' compensation. (b) The amount of contributions by the City shall be determined by applying the applicable percentage rate of contributions to the total compensation paid members of the system during each payroll period, and all such amounts shall be paid to the system following the close of each payroll period, concurrently with contributions made to the system by the members, insofar as possible or practicable. (3) Interest income from investments or other sources, and any other income accruing to the system, shall be held in the system to meet the requirements for regular interest on the reserves, as herein provided. Any excess above the rate of regular interest established by the board shall be available to meet possible future deficiencies in interest income or other contingencies. Acts 1952, No. 184, §15; Designated from Acts 1956, No. 76, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.
LA Rev Stat § 11:3046 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement|§3046. Tax levy

RS 3046 - Tax levy To meet the obligations of the City under this Part the Commission Council of the City of Bogalusa is hereby authorized to levy a special tax on all property subject to state taxation within the corporate limits of the City of Bogalusa in an amount not exceeding one mill on the dollar of the assessed valuation of said property in any one year, provided, however, that the rate, purpose and duration of said special tax set forth above shall have been first submitted to the resident property taxpayers qualified to vote in said municipality, and a majority vote of those voting, in both number and amount, shall have voted in favor thereof, as provided for by existing laws. Said tax shall be levied and collected with and in like manner as the general taxes of the City, the avails of which tax shall be used solely and exclusively for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the City under this Part and in providing revenue for the maintenance of the municipal employees' pension and relief fund as herein provided for. The provisions herein contained shall be self-operative. Designated from Acts 1952, No. 184, §16, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.