61.525 Membership.
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Membership in the system shall consist of the following:
(1)All persons who become employees of a participating department after the date
such department first participates in the system;
(2)All persons who are employees of a department on the date the department first
participates in the system, either in service or on authorized leave from service, and
who elect within thirty
(30)days following the department's participation, or in the
case of persons on authorized leave, within thirty
(30)days of their return to active
service, to become members and thereby agree to make contributions as provided in
KRS 61.515 to 61.705;
(3)All persons who are employees of any credit union whose membership was initially
limited to employees of state government and their families and which subsequently
may have been extended to local government employees and their families;
(4)All persons who were professional staff employees of the Council on Postsecondary
Education or the Higher Education Assistance Authority and were contributing to
the system on the effective date of Executive Order 74-762 or 75-964, respectively,
and file a written election of their desire to continue in the system and all
administrative and professional staff employees of the Higher Education Assistance
Authority who, on or after January 1, 1993, are not participating in another
retirement plan sponsored by the Higher Education Assistance Authority;
(5)All persons who were professional staff employees of the Kentucky Authority for
Educational Television on and after July 1, 1974;
(6)All persons who are employees of the Teachers' Retirement System except
employees who are required to participate under the Teachers' Retirement System
under KRS 161.220(4)(d);
(7)Membership in the system shall not include persons who are not eligible to
participate in the system as provided by KRS 61.522 or those employees who are
simultaneously participating in another state-administered defined benefit plan
within Kentucky other than those administered by the Kentucky Retirement
Systems, except for employees who have ceased to contribute to one
(1)of the
state-administered retirement plans as provided in KRS 21.360; and
(8)Effective January 1, 1998, employees of the Kentucky Community and Technical
College System who were previously contributing members and are not required to
participate in the Teachers' Retirement System as a member; employees who were
previously contributing members transferred from the former Cabinet for
Workforce Development as provided in KRS 164.5805(1)(a) and who have not
exercised the option to participate in the new Kentucky Community and Technical
College personnel system as provided in KRS 164.5805(1)(e); and new employees
as of July 1, 1997, who are not eligible under the Teachers' Retirement System or
who are not contributing to an optional retirement plan established by the board of
regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.