GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 520

SENATE BILL 592

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT EXTENSION SERVICE EMPLOYEES HAVING DUAL EMPLOYMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, PREVENT PARTIAL WITHDRAWAL, AND PERMIT EXTENSION SERVICE EMPLOYEES TO RESTORE PARTIALLY WITHDRAWN ACCOUNTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 135-3(1) is amended by changing the period at the end of the next to the last sentence to a semicolon and adding the following phrase to read:  "; provided further, that effective July 1, 1985, an extension service employee who is employed in part by a county and who is compensated in whole by the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service pursuant to a contract where the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service is reimbursed by the county for the county's share of the compensation shall participate exclusively in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System to the extent of their full compensation."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 128-27(f) and G.S. 135-5(f) are amended by adding a sentence at the end thereof to read "An extension service employee who made contributions to the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System as a result of dual employment may not be paid his accumulated contributions unless he is eligible to be paid his accumulated contributions in both systems for the same period of service.

Sec. 3.  An active or retired extension service employee who was employed in part by a county and in part by the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service and who was paid his accumulated contributions from either the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System while retaining his accumulated contributions in the other Retirement System for the same period may on or before June 30, 1986, or 90 days after the effective date of this legislation, whichever comes last, repay in a lump sum the accumulated contributions withdrawn with interest and a fee added thereto to be determined by the Board of Trustees and restore the service credit represented thereby.

Sec. 4.  Nothing in this act should be construed to require any employee of the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service who has elected to become a member of a retirement system for employees of the United States Government to become a member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1985.