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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.63. Employees not electing to participate; right to future election

RS 11:951.63 - Employees not electing to participate; right to future election
An employee whose participation in this retirement system is contingent on his own election and who elects not to become a participant may thereafter apply for and be admitted to participation; no such participant shall receive prior service credit, but shall participate on the same basis as a new participant.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1103 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.64. Temporary employees; denial of participation rights

RS 11:951.64 - Temporary employees; denial of participation rights
The board of trustees has discretionary power to deny the right to participate to any employee who is serving on a temporary or other than regular basis, or the board of trustees may make optional with such employees their right to participate.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1104 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.65. Absence or death of employee; effect on right to participate

RS 11:951.65 - Absence or death of employee; effect on right to participate
A person shall cease to be a participant if he absents himself from service for more than five years in any period of six consecutive years, or if he withdraws his accumulated contributions, becomes a beneficiary, or dies.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1105 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.71. Creditable service; determination by board of trustees

RS 11:951.71 - Creditable service; determination by board of trustees
Creditable service shall be determined under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees shall adopt, each present employee, who rendered continuous service as a regular employee prior to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system and who elects to become a participant, shall file a detailed statement of all such continuous service rendered by him prior to the effective date of establishment for which he claims credit.
The board of trustees shall fix and determine by appropriate rules and regulations how much service in any year is equivalent to one year of service, but in no case shall more than one year of service be creditable for all service in one calendar year, and in all cases service rendered for the full school year shall be considered one year of creditable service.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1111 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.72. Prior service certificates; issuance, conclusiveness and modification

RS 11:951.72 - Prior service certificates; issuance, conclusiveness and modification
Subject to the above restrictions and to other rules and regulations the board of trustees may adopt, the board of trustees shall verify, as soon as practicable after the filing of such statement of prior service, the service therein claimed. Upon verification of said statements the board of trustees shall issue prior service certificates to each such participant certifying the length of service rendered prior to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system, with which he is credited on the basis of his statement of service. This prior service certificate shall be final and conclusive as to such service for retirement purposes, provided that any participant may within one year from the date of issuance or modification of such certificate, request the board of trustees to modify or correct the same.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1112 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.73. Expiration of prior service certificates

RS 11:951.73 - Expiration of prior service certificates
When an employee ceases to be a participant his prior service certificate shall become void. Should the employee again become a participant, he shall enter the system as a participant not entitled to prior credit except as provided in cases of disability retirement.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1113 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.74. Service on which retirement allowances are based

RS 11:951.74 - Service on which retirement allowances are based
Creditable service at retirement, on which the retirement allowance of a participant is based, shall consist of subsequent service rendered by him since last becoming a participant, and also if he has prior service credit, which is in full force and effect, the amount of service certified on his prior service certificate.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1114 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.81. Retirement benefits; application for; eligibility requirements

RS 11:951.81 - Retirement benefits; application for; eligibility requirements
Any participant in service may retire upon written application to the board of trustees, filed not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days prior to the date on which the retirement is to become effective, irrespective of his separation from service during such period of notification, provided that the participant at the time specified for his retirement has attained his normal service retirement age, or has attained age fifty-five and completed thirty years of creditable service notwithstanding that he may not have attained his normal service retirement age.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1121 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.82. Retirement at age 70

RS 11:951.82 - Retirement at age 70
Any participant in service who has attained age seventy within the two years following the effective date of the establishment of the retirement system, or who shall thereafter attain age seventy, shall be retired forthwith on a service retirement allowance.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1122 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.83. Retirement allowances

RS 11:951.83 - Retirement allowances
A participant retired on account of service shall receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of:
(1) An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated contributions at retirement; and
(2) A pension on account of service on and after the effective date of the establishment of the retirement system equal to the annuity based on the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated contributions at his normal service retirement age or at time of retirement if earlier than the normal service retirement age; and
(3) If he has prior service credit in full force and effect, an additional pension which shall be equal to the annuity which would have been provided at his normal service retirement age or at the age of retirement if earlier than normal service retirement age by twice the contributions which he would have made during such prior service had the retirement system been in operation and he contributed thereunder.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1123 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.84. Disability retirement benefits; application for; eligibility requirements

RS 11:951.84 - Disability retirement benefits; application for; eligibility requirements
Upon the application of a participant or of the Orleans Parish School Board, any participant who has completed ten or more years of creditable service may be retired by the board of trustees not less than thirty nor more than ninety days following the date of the filing of such application for a disability retirement allowance, provided that the medical board after a medical examination of such participant shall certify that the participant is mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of duty and that the participant should be retired; should any such participant refuse to submit to such medical examination, his rights in and to retirement may be withheld during the period of such refusal, and should his refusal continue for a period of one year, all his rights in and to the benefits of the retirement system may be voided and his accumulated contributions may be returned by the board of trustees.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1124 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.85. Allowances on disability retirement

RS 11:951.85 - Allowances on disability retirement
A participant retired on account of disability shall receive a service retirement allowance if he is eligible therefor; otherwise he shall receive a disability retirement allowance which shall consist of:
(1) An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated contributions at the time of retirement; and
(2) A pension equal to at least seventy-five per centum of the pension that would have been payable upon service retirement at the normal service retirement age had the participant continued in the service to the normal service retirement age without further change in compensation.
(3) If the disability allowance herein above provided is less than three hundred dollars per annum, an additional pension sufficient to provide a total disability allowance of three hundred dollars per annum shall be payable.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1125 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.86. Re-examination of beneficiaries retired for disability; restoration to active service

RS 11:951.86 - Re-examination of beneficiaries retired for disability; restoration to active service
A. Once each year during the first five years following retirement and once in every three-year period thereafter the board of trustees may, or upon application of the beneficiary shall, require any disability beneficiary who has not yet attained the normal service retirement age to undergo a medical examination by a physician or physicians designated by the medical board, to be made at the place of residence of said beneficiary or some other place mutually agreed upon. Should any such disability beneficiary refuse to submit to such medical examination, his retirement allowance may be discontinued until the withdrawal of his refusal, and should his refusal continue for one year, all his rights in and to his pensions may be revoked by the board of trustees.
B. Should a disability beneficiary under the normal service retirement age be restored to active service at a compensation not less than his average final compensation, his retirement allowance shall cease, he shall again become a member of the retirement system, and he shall contribute thereafter at the prevailing rate. Any such prior service on the basis of which his service was computed at the time of his retirement shall be restored to full force and effect, and in addition, upon his subsequent retirement he shall be credited with all his service as a member; but should he be restored to active service on or after the attainment of the age of fifty years his pension upon subsequent retirement shall not exceed the sum of the pension which he was receiving immediately prior to his last restoration and the pension that he would have received on account of his service since his last restoration had he entered service at that time as a new entrant.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1126 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.87. Return of accumulated contributions upon termination of employment; death of beneficiary

RS 11:951.87 - Return of accumulated contributions upon termination of employment; death of beneficiary
A. Should a participant cease to be an employee except by death or retirement under the provisions of this Part, he shall be paid his accumulated contributions including regular interest standing to the credit of the participant in the annuity savings account.
B. Upon the proper proofs of the death of a participant in service there shall be paid to any person as he shall have nominated by written designation acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees, otherwise to his succession, the amount which would have been payable to him, had he ceased to be a participant as provided in the preceding paragraph.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1127 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:951.88. Optional benefits

RS 11:951.88 - Optional benefits
With the provision that no optional selection shall be effective in case a participant retires or dies within thirty days after the date of retirement, and that in all such cases there shall be paid the amount of the contributions of the participant as if he had died in active service, until the first payment on account of any retirement allowance becomes normally due, and participant may elect to receive his benefit in a retirement allowance payable throughout life, or he may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent, at that time, in a reduced retirement allowance payable throughout his life with the provision that if he dies before he has received in annuity payments an amount equal to his returnable contributions at the time of retirement, the balance shall be paid to any person he shall have nominated by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees, otherwise to his succession.
Redesignated from R.S. 17:1128 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.2. Name and establishment of funded university retirement system

RS 11:952.2 - Name and establishment of funded university retirement system
A. A university funded retirement system is established with all the powers and privileges pertaining to corporations, under the management of the board of supervisors for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for employees of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. The funded retirement system so created shall be established effective as of the first day of July nineteen hundred and seventy one or at such later date as determined by the board of supervisors.
B. This funded system shall be known as the "Louisiana State University Retirement System" and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested and all of its cash and securities and other property held.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1612 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.3. Exemption of pension and other rights from levy and other processes

RS 11:952.3 - Exemption of pension and other rights from levy and other processes
The right of a person to a retirement allowance, or to the return of contributions; the retirement allowance itself; any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this Part; and the moneys in the funds created by this Part are exempt from any state or municipal tax, and exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment, or any other process whatsoever, except as provided in R.S. 11:292, and shall be unassignable except as otherwise specifically provided in this Part.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1613 pursuant to R.S. 24:253; Acts 2010, No. 634, §1, eff. July 1, 2010.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.4. False statements or falsification of records; penalty; errors

RS 11:952.4 - False statements or falsification of records; penalty; errors
A. Any person who knowingly makes any false statement or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record or records of this funded retirement system in any attempt to defraud such system shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than twelve months, or both.
B. Should any change or error in the records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the funded retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, the board of supervisors shall correct such error, and as far as possible, shall adjust the payment in such a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1614 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.11. New employees

RS 11:952.11 - New employees
A. Except as provided under Subsection B of this Section, any person becoming a nonstudent regular employee, full time or part time, of the university after the effective date of this funded system, unless specifically excluded under the provisions of R.S. 11:952.14 shall become a member of the funded system as a condition of his employment.
B. Any person becoming a nonstudent regular employee, full time or part time, of the university who has attained age sixty or over at time of appointment will be a member of this system only for purposes of coverage by F.I.C.A. taxes and benefits, and such persons will not be eligible to make contributions or receive any benefits under this retirement system. The board of supervisors may use this special membership with F.I.C.A. coverage only to recognize other special employment situations where coverage for contributions and benefits under this retirement system would not be considered appropriate.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1615 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.12. Employees on the effective date; election of coverage under the funded University Retirement System

RS 11:952.12 - Employees on the effective date; election of coverage under the funded University Retirement System
Each employee on the effective date of the funded system, who is a member of the nonfunded university retirement plan and who is covered in such employment under the Federal Social Security Act shall become a member of the funded University Retirement System as of that date and authorize the deduction of contributions required under the funded system, unless he elects not to become a member and thereby remain a member of the nonfunded university retirement plan, by executing and filing with the board of supervisors the appropriate form provided by it within one hundred and eighty days following the effective date of the funded system. Any employee on authorized leave of absence when his election would otherwise need to be filed shall file such election within ninety days after he returns to active service. An employee who elects not to become a member as aforesaid may, nevertheless, later become a member as of the first day of the calendar month next following approval of his written application therefor filed with the board of supervisors, but he shall receive no credit under the funded system for service rendered prior to the time he becomes a member unless the board of supervisors permits the employee to make a lump sum payment in the amount he would have contributed plus appropriate interest, in which case his membership shall include such period of service.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1616 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.13. Termination of membership

RS 11:952.13 - Termination of membership
Membership in the funded system shall cease when a member receives a refund of his accumulated contributions, or receives a retirement benefit under this system, or dies.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1617 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.14. Classes of employees not eligible

RS 11:952.14 - Classes of employees not eligible
Any other provision of this part to the contrary notwithstanding, the following classes of employees shall be excluded from membership in this funded system:
(1) Members of the Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana.
(2) Members of the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System.
(3) Members of the United States Civil Service Retirement System holding such membership by virtue of university employment.
(4) Regular part-time employees appointed for less than twenty-five per cent of full-time service.
(5) Any person who is retired under the nonfunded university retirement plan or under any retirement system of this state operating for state, parochial or municipal employees.
(6) Independent contractors employed to render services on a contractual basis, including independent contractual professional service.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1618 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.21. Service after effective date

RS 11:952.21 - Service after effective date
All service as a regular employee, whether on a full-time or part-time basis, rendered by a member prior to retirement, since he became a member, or since he last became a member in the event of a break in membership, for which he has made contributions to the system in accordance with R.S. 11:952.52, shall be recognized as credited service.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1619 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.22. Service prior to the effective date

RS 11:952.22 - Service prior to the effective date
For any employee who elected pursuant to R.S. 11:952.12 to become a member of the funded system as of the effective date or for former employees who are subsequently reemployed, credited service shall also include any service prior to the effective date which was recognized under the nonfunded university retirement plan as service for computation of a benefit allowance, except as provided in R.S. 11:952.41.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1620 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.23. Service on which retirement allowances are based

RS 11:952.23 - Service on which retirement allowances are based
Credited service at retirement on which the retirement allowance of a member shall be based shall consist of his credited service rendered after the effective date, plus, if applicable, credited service rendered prior to the effective date, as determined under R.S. 11:952.22.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1621 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.31. Service retirement

RS 11:952.31 - Service retirement
A. Any member in service may retire on a service retirement allowance upon written application to the board of supervisors setting forth at what time, not less than ninety days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he desires to be retired, provided that the member at the time specified for his retirement has attained age sixty-five and has completed at least five years of credited service.
B. Repealed by Acts 1978, No. 160, §2, eff. June 29, 1978.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1; Acts 1978, No. 160, §2, eff. June 29, 1978. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1623 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.32. Service retirement allowance

RS 11:952.32 - Service retirement allowance
A. For service retirement commencing with the end of the 1974-1975 academic year, a member shall receive a service retirement allowance, inclusive of any tax-sheltered annuity purchased for the member under the provisions of R.S. 11:952.52(F), for each year of his credited service, computed as follows:
(1) For service rendered prior to July 1, 1971, one and one-third percent of that part of his average regular compensation not in excess of seven thousand eight hundred dollars, plus two and one-half percent of that part of his average regular compensation in excess of seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
(2) For service rendered on and after July 1, 1971, one and one-third percent of that part of his average regular compensation not in excess of the social security breakpoint average commencing July 1, 1971, through the year of retirement, or establishment of a vested deferred service allowance, plus two and one-half percent of that part of his average regular compensation in excess of such social security breakpoint, but the computation of the social security breakpoint average shall exclude any calendar year subsequent to July 1, 1971, in which the member was not employed during any part of such calendar year.
B. The benefits provided by this Section, together with the primary worker's benefits he then is eligible to receive under the federal Social Security Act, shall not exceed one hundred percent of his average compensation, except that this provision shall not be applied to reduce the benefits available to any employee prior to September 12, 1975.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1; Acts 1975, No. 346, §1; Acts 1977, No. 323, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1624 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.33. Early service retirement

RS 11:952.33 - Early service retirement
Any member who has not attained age sixty-five may retire on an early service retirement allowance upon written application to the board of supervisors setting forth at what time, not less than ninety days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he desires to be retired provided that at the time specified for this retirement the member has thirty years or more of credited service at any age, or the member has attained age fifty-five or over and the sum of the member's attained age and years of credited service will equal at least eighty.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1625 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.34. Early service retirement allowance

RS 11:952.34 - Early service retirement allowance
The early service retirement allowance shall be computed as a service retirement allowance as provided in R.S. 11:952.32.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1626 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.35. Cost-of-living benefits

RS 11:952.35 - Cost-of-living benefits
A.(1) Any member who retired prior to May 13, 1975, and the beneficiary of a deceased retired member who retired prior to May 13, 1975 under Option 2 or Option 3 and any survivor of a member who died prior to May 13, 1975 and prior to retirement who is receiving survivor benefit in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:952.37(A), shall have that portion of the retirement allowance or benefit, not exceeding ten thousand dollars per annum, being received under authority of this Part increased, effective July 1, 1975 and thereafter, in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) For those members who retired or died after May 26, 1972 but prior to May 13, 1975, or their beneficiaries, the benefits shall be increased by six percent.
(b) For those members who retired or died on or before May 26, 1972, or their beneficiaries, the benefit shall be increased by eight percent.
(2) No increase under Paragraph (1) above shall be made with respect to any portion of the allowance which exceeds ten thousand dollars per annum.
B. With respect to those members or their beneficiaries whose benefits are recomputed in accordance with Subsection A of this Section, the board of supervisors may make annual supplementary cost-of-living adjustments from interest earnings, the payments of which shall be effective as of July 1 of each year. Supplemental adjustments shall be based on the difference between the annual average all items consumer price indexes of the two immediately preceding calendar years. The supplementary cost-of-living adjustments shall be computed on the benefits as recomputed in accordance with Subsection A of this Section; however, no upward adjustment shall be made with respect to recomputed benefits which exceed ten thousand dollars per annum. The supplemental monthly cost-of-living adjustment shall not be increased or decreased more than three percent in any year, nor shall any such adjustment cause a reduction below the benefit as recomputed in accordance with Subsection A of this Section. The supplemental cost-of-living adjustment may be adjusted or suspended by the board at any time that it determines that the interest income of the system is not sufficient to pay for the supplemental benefits.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 471, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1626.1 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.36. Disability retirement

RS 11:952.36 - Disability retirement
A. Eligibility for disability benefits, procedures for application for disability benefits, procedures for the certification of continuing eligibility for disability benefits, the authority of the board of trustees to modify disability benefits, and procedures governing the restoration to active service of an employee who formerly had a disability are specifically described and provided for in this Chapter and in R.S. 11:201 through 224.
B. The board of trustees shall award disability benefits to eligible members who have been officially certified as having a disability by the State Medical Disability Board. The disability benefit shall consist of:
A service retirement allowance computed on the basis of the member's average regular compensation and years of credited service at the time of disability retirement without any reduction for reason of age.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1; Acts 1978, No. 727, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1979. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1627 pursuant to R.S. 24:253; 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)).
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.37. Surviving spouse allowance

RS 11:952.37 - Surviving spouse allowance
A.(1) Upon receipt by the board of supervisors of proper proof of the death of a member in service who has completed ten years of credited service, or a member not in service who, on the date his employment ceased, had completed twenty years of credited service and elected to receive a vested deferred retirement allowance pursuant to R.S. 11:952.41 and who is not yet in receipt of such allowance, a survivor's allowance shall be payable to his spouse, if any, as herein specified:
(2) If the surviving spouse was married to the deceased member for at least two years prior to the death of the member, the surviving spouse may elect to receive a spouse allowance benefit as provided under Option 2 in R.S. 11:952.38 with such allowance to terminate upon spouse's death or remarriage except that remarriage will not terminate a spouse allowance benefit if the member had twenty-five years or more of credited service or was eligible but was not yet in receipt of a service retirement or early service retirement allowance at the time of the member's death.
B. In lieu of a survivor's allowance, the surviving spouse may elect to receive a refund of the member's accumulated contributions.
C. No beneficiary shall receive more than one survivor's benefit at any one time, but may receive the highest eligible benefit, provided that after the spouse's election to receive one of said benefits at the time of application for benefits, said election shall be final and irrevocable.
D. The survivor's benefit is payable upon application and effective the day after the member's death.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1630 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.38. Retirement allowance options

RS 11:952.38 - Retirement allowance options
A. A member may retire under one of the following options:
Option 1: pays total of retirement allowance formula in a retirement benefit for life of member, with no benefits payable to a beneficiary after his death except as provided in R.S. 11:952.42(D).
Option 2: pays ninety percent of total retirement allowance formula in a retirement benefit for life of member. Upon member's death, pays fifty-five percent of total retirement allowance formula as a benefit to the surviving spouse for life provided the spouse was married to the member at least two years prior to his retirement.
Option 3: pays a reduced retirement allowance benefit which depends on the difference between member's age and the age of the person the member names to receive benefits after the member's death. The retirement allowance benefit payable to the member shall be reduced ten percent of the total retirement allowance formula, if the named beneficiary is either older, same age, or less than five years younger; fifteen percent if the named beneficiary is five but less than ten years younger; twenty percent if the named beneficiary is ten but less than fifteen years younger; twenty-five percent if the named beneficiary is fifteen but less than twenty years younger; thirty percent if the named beneficiary is twenty but less than twenty-five years younger; thirty-five percent if the named beneficiary is twenty-five but less than thirty years younger, and forty percent if the named beneficiary is thirty or more years younger. Upon member's death after retirement, the person named will receive one-half of the member's reduced retirement allowance benefit.
B. The election of an optional benefit may not be revoked or changed by the member after the date his retirement allowance becomes effective. If the member or the beneficiary designated under the option dies prior to the date as of which the retirement allowance becomes effective, the election shall thereby be revoked.
C. If a member fails to file a written designation of an option with the board of supervisors by the date his retirement allowance is to become effective, Option 1 benefits shall be applied and cannot be revoked or changed by the member's late filing for another option.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1631 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.39. Restoration to active service

RS 11:952.39 - Restoration to active service
A. If any former employee with deferred vesting rights or if any beneficiary is restored to active service, any retirement allowance shall cease, any election of an optional benefit in effect thereunder shall become void, and he shall again become a member of the retirement system. An amount equal to the actuarial reserve held for the part of his retirement allowance provided by his contributions shall be credited to him as accumulated contributions and any credited service to which he was entitled when he retired shall be restored to him. Upon his subsequent retirement or separation with an election to receive a vested deferred retirement allowance, his allowance shall be based on his regular compensation and credited service before and after the period of prior retirement; provided that if he does not complete five years of credited service after his restoration to service, his retirement allowance upon subsequent retirement shall not exceed the sum of the retirement allowance which he was receiving immediately prior to his last restoration and a retirement allowance calculated on the basis of his regular compensation and credited service since his last restoration.
B. Whenever a prior member of the retirement system who has received a refund reenters service prior to age sixty and again becomes a member of the Louisiana State University Retirement System and remains a contributing member for two years, he may repay all amounts previously received by him as a refund, together with interest thereon at the current regular interest rate as determined by the board of supervisors from the date of withdrawal until paid. Upon making such repayment the member shall again receive credit for all creditable service which he forfeited upon receipt of the refund.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1; Acts 1977, No. 323, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1632 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.40. Minimum benefit payable to former participants in the nonfunded university retirement plan

RS 11:952.40 - Minimum benefit payable to former participants in the nonfunded university retirement plan
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the retirement allowance payable at retirement, inclusive of any tax-sheltered annuity purchased for the member under the provisions of R.S. 11:952.52(F), including disability retirement, to any member who immediately prior to his membership in this funded system, was a participant in the nonfunded university retirement plan shall not be less than the amount of the retirement stipend that would have been payable, based on similar circumstances and conditions, under the nonfunded university retirement plan had he elected to continue as a participant under that plan and had that plan continued in effect without change.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1633 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.41. Conditions for vested deferred retirement allowance

RS 11:952.41 - Conditions for vested deferred retirement allowance
A. Subject to the provisions of R.S. 11:952.41(B), a member who has completed five or more years of credited service as a contributing member of this system or ten or more years of total credited service, and who, for reasons other than retirement or death, ceases to be an employee may elect, in lieu of the refund of his accumulated contributions under R.S. 11:952.42, on a form provided by the board of supervisors for such purpose, to receive a vested deferred service retirement allowance when eligible under the provisions of R.S. 11:952.31 or an early service retirement allowance when eligible under the provisions of R.S. 11:952.33.
B. If a member:
(1) Terminates service with five years of credited service as a contributing member of this system but has less than ten years total credited service, his service retirement allowance shall be based only on the member's average regular compensation and credited service rendered while a contributing member of this system;
(2) Terminates service with ten or more years of total credited service, his service retirement allowance or early service retirement allowance shall be based upon his average regular compensation and credited service rendered before and after the effective date of this system.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Amended by Acts 1972, No. 519, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1634 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.42. Return of member's contributions

RS 11:952.42 - Return of member's contributions
A. If a member ceases to be an employee for reasons other than retirement or death and if he has not elected or is ineligible to receive a vested deferred retirement allowance under R.S. 11:952.41, the amount of his accumulated contributions shall be paid to him within ninety days of application for refund.
B. Upon the death of a member where no survivor allowance is payable on his account pursuant to R.S. 11:952.37, the amount of his accumulated contributions shall be paid to the person or persons, if any, nominated by him, if living, otherwise to his estate.
C. Upon the death before his allowance commences of a member who has elected, pursuant to R.S. 11:952.41, to receive a vested deferred retirement allowance, the amount of his accumulated contributions at the time of his death shall be paid to the person or persons, if any, nominated by him, if living, otherwise to the estate of the member unless a survivor allowance is elected under the provisions of R.S. 11:952.37.
D. Upon the death of a retired member after his retirement allowance payments have commenced, provided he has not elected an optional beneficiary allowance (Options 2 and 3) that has become effective, any excess of the amount of his accumulated contributions at retirement over the sum of the retirement allowance payments received shall be paid in one sum to the person or persons nominated by the member, if living, otherwise to his estate. Upon the death of the last surviving beneficiary under the terms of an option which has become effective, any excess of the retired member's accumulated contributions at retirement over the sum of the retirement allowance payments made to all beneficiaries, shall be paid to the estate of the last surviving beneficiary.
E. Upon the cessation of payments of a survivor's allowance due to remarriage, any excess of the amount of the member's accumulated contributions at the date of his death over the sum of the survivor's allowance payment received by his dependent spouse shall be paid in one sum to the spouse.
F. Upon the death of a member, a surviving spouse eligible for a survivor's allowance may elect to receive a refund of the member's accumulated contributions in lieu of a survivor's allowance.
G. Nomination of a person to receive the return of the member's contributions pursuant to this section shall be made by the member in writing filed with the board of supervisors. A member may change his nomination by a similar writing. A designation, revocation or change of the person nominated under an optional election may be made only as provided in R.S. 11:952.38.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1635 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.51. Funds to which assets credited

RS 11:952.51 - Funds to which assets credited
All of the assets of the retirement system shall be credited according to the purpose for which they are held to one of two funds, namely, the members' fund and the accumulation fund.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1636 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.53. Accumulation fund

RS 11:952.53 - Accumulation fund
A. The accumulation fund shall be the fund in which shall be accumulated all reserves for the payment of all benefits payable from contributions made by the university, and all amounts transferred from the members' fund, and from which shall be paid all benefits payable under the system other than those payable from the members' fund.
B. On account of each member after the effective date of the system, the university shall pay into the accumulation fund an amount sufficient to support the benefits of the system. In the first year such payments shall equal to:
(1) For academic year employees, the excess of 9.777% of the member's annual regular academic year compensation over the amount of F.I.C.A. taxes paid by the university on such compensation. No contribution shall be made for any summer session or other summer employment by the university.
(2) For fiscal year employees, the excess of eight percent of the member's annual regular compensation over the amount of F.I.C.A. taxes paid by the university on such compensation.
C. In addition, there shall be paid annually into the accumulation fund by the university an amount equal to the benefits payable during the year on account of benefits payable under the provisions of the university retirement plan and on account of credited service prior to the effective date of the system.
D. All interest and dividends earned on the funds of the retirement system shall be credited to the accumulation fund.
E. All retirement allowances and benefits in lieu thereof, with the exception of members' accumulated contributions payable from the members' fund, shall be paid from the accumulation fund.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1638 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.54. Operating expenses

RS 11:952.54 - Operating expenses
The board of supervisors shall include an estimated amount required for operating expenses of the system in the appropriation for the operating expenses of the university.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1639 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.55. Appropriations by state

RS 11:952.55 - Appropriations by state
The board of supervisors shall include in its annual operating budget submitted to the state an estimate of the contributions of the state to the system necessary for the ensuing fiscal year.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1640 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.61. Board of supervisors; administrative powers in general

RS 11:952.61 - Board of supervisors; administrative powers in general
A. The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are vested in the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
B. The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System are authorized to enter into an administrative services agreement, whereby general administrative and operational services required herein of the board of supervisors may be performed by the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1641 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 11 - Consolidated Public Retirement › §11:952.62. Actuary; appointment; duties and powers

RS 11:952.62 - Actuary; appointment; duties and powers
The board of supervisors shall designate an actuary who shall be the technical advisor of the board of supervisors on matters regarding the operation of the funds created by the provisions of this part, and shall perform such other duties as are required in connection therewith.
Added by Acts 1971, No. 26, §1. Redesignated from R.S. 17:1643 pursuant to R.S. 24:253.