Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 088 - Arkansas Teacher Retirement System › Rule 088.00.20-001 - Rule 6: Membership Rules

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
ATRS Rule 6 MEMBERSHIP RULES
A.C.A. §§ 24-2-202, 24-2-401 - 24-2-408, 24-7-202,
			 24-7-406, 24-7-501, 24-7-502, 24-7-1601 -24-7-1607
I.
Definitions
A. "Administrator" shall mean a public school
		  superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, or vice-principal; a
		  higher education president, chancellor or director; or a community college,
		  vocational/technical or educational cooperative director, president, or vice
		  president, who is employed by a participating employer; OR any employee of an
		  education related agency participating in ATRS that is an active member
		  employed in a position grade GS13 or above or its equivalent.
B. "Alternate Retirement Plans" refers to the
		  retirement plan(s) of a public college or university, or the Division of Higher
		  Education provided for under A.C.A. § 24-7-801
et seq.,
or for a vocational-technical school or the Department of Career Education
		  (formerly the Division of Vocational and Technical Education) provided for
		  under A.C.A. § 24-7-901
et seq.
C. "Contributory service" is service on which
		  a member makes or made member contributions to ATRS.
D. A "contributory election" is a written
		  election by a member to make member contributions to ATRS. To be valid, an
		  election must be on an election form provided by ATRS and signed by both the
		  member and the employer.
E.
		  "Noncontributory service" is service on which a member does not make member
		  contributions to the ATRS and accepts a reduced retirement annuity for the
		  years of service for which the member does not contribute.
F. "Nonteacher" means any member that is not
		  a teacher or administrator.
G.
		  "Organization" means
(i) any private entity
		  providing services for a public school district and whose employees were
		  formerly employed by the school district and had been members of ATRS, and
(ii) any educational nonprofit
		  corporation licensed and regulated by the Division of Developmental
		  Disabilities Services of the Department of Human Services.
H. "Preceding System" is a previous
		  reciprocal retirement system of record as defined below.
I. "Reciprocal System" means ATRS operations
		  as of June 30, 1957, and continued by statutes; the Arkansas State Highway
		  Employees' Retirement System, established by A.C.A. § 24-5-103; the
		  Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System established by A.C.A. §
		  24-4-103; the Arkansas State Police Retirement System established by A.C.A.
		  § 24-6-203; the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System established by A.C.A.
		  § 24-8-201; the Arkansas District Judge Retirement System established by
		  A.C.A. §§ 24-8-801 -824; the Arkansas Local Police and Fire
		  Retirement System provided for under A.C.A. § 24-10-101; or an alternate
		  retirement plan for a public college or university, or the Arkansas Division of
		  Higher Education provided for under A.C.A. § 24-7-801
et
		  seq.,
or for a vocational-technical school or the Department of Career
		  Education (formerly the Division of Vocational and Technical Education)
		  provided for under A.C.A. § 24-7-901
et seq.
and agencies
		  that may be assigned the duties under the agencies listed above through a state
		  reorganization or transformation plan.
J. "State Employer" means the public employer
		  whose employees are covered under ATRS, the Arkansas State Highway Employees'
		  Retirement System (A.C.A. § 24-5-103 ), the Arkansas Public Employees'
		  Retirement System (A.C.A. § 24-4-103 ), the Arkansas State Police
		  Retirement System (A.C.A. § 24-6-203 ), the Arkansas Judicial Retirement
		  System (A.C.A. § 24-8-201 ), or the Arkansas District Judge Retirement
		  System (A.C.A. §§ 24-8-801 -824). "State employer" also includes a
		  public employer that is a college, university, or the Arkansas Division of
		  Higher Education (A.C.A. § 24-7-801
et seq.),
or a
		  vocational-technical school or the Department of Career Education (formerly the
		  Division of Vocational and Technical Education (A.C.A. §
		  24-7-901
et seq.)
and agencies that may be assigned the duties
		  under the agencies listed above through a state reorganization or
		  transformation plan.
K. "Succeeding
		  System" is the current reciprocal retirement system of record, following
		  membership in a retirement system covered above.
L. "Teacher" means any person employed by a
		  school for the purpose of giving instructions and whose employment requires
		  state licensure.