Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 852 - Membership

SUBCHAPTER A MUNICIPAL PARTICIPATION

• Texas Section 852.001 - Election To Participate
  (a) By vote of its governing body in the manner required for other official actions, a municipality may elect to have one or more of...
• Texas Section 852.002 - Referendum On Participation
  (a) If qualified voters representing at least 10 percent of the total votes cast at the most recent regular municipal election petition the governing body...
• Texas Section 852.003 - Supplemental Disability Benefits Fund
  (a) A municipality may not elect to participate in the supplemental disability benefits fund after August 31, 1987. (b) Each municipality that elected to participate...
• Texas Section 852.004 - Supplemental Death Benefits Fund
  (a) If a municipality has one or more departments participating in the retirement system on a full-salary basis, the municipality may elect to participate in...
• Texas Section 852.005 - Status As A Municipality
  (a) For the purposes of this subtitle, the Texas Municipal Retirement System and, as limited by Subsection (b), the Texas Municipal League, have the standing...
• Texas Section 852.006 - Termination Of Participation
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a municipality may not terminate participation in the retirement system if the municipality has employees who are members...

SUBCHAPTER B MEMBERSHIP

• Texas Section 852.007 - Municipality Not Agent Of System
  Neither a municipality that participates in the retirement system nor any employee or officer of a participating municipality has authority to act as an agent...
• Texas Section 852.101 - General Membership Requirement
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, a person who is not a member becomes a member of the retirement system if: (1) on...
• Texas Section 852.102 - Exception To General Membership Requirement
  (a) If on the effective date of participation of the employing department, a person had with a municipality an employment contract that is violated by...
• Texas Section 852.103 - Withdrawal Of Contributions; Rollover Distributions
  (a) A living person who is not an employee of a participating department and who has not retired may, after application, withdraw all of the...
• Texas Section 852.104 - Termination Of Membership
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a person terminates membership in the retirement system by: (1) death; (2) retirement; (3) withdrawal of all...
• Texas Section 852.105 - Optional Prior Service Credits
  (a) The governing body of a municipality that has an effective date of participation in the retirement system before September 1, 1987, and that allows...
• Texas Section 852.106 - Ineligibility For Membership; Multiple Retirement System Membership
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a person who is elected to public office is not an employee eligible for membership in the retirement...
• Texas Section 852.107 - Optional Membership Requirement For Elected Officers
  (a) The governing body of a municipality that began participation in the retirement system before January 1, 1982, by ordinance may provide that persons who...
• Texas Section 852.108 - Resumption Of Service With Same Employer By Retiree
  (a) In this section and Sections 852.1085 and 852.109, a person's reemploying municipality is the municipality for which the person was performing creditable service at...
• Texas Section 852.1085 - Resumption Of Service With Same Employer By Certain Retirees
  Notwithstanding Section 852.108, a person who retired because the department in the municipality in which the person worked was privatized and who later resumes employment...
• Texas Section 852.109 - Resumption Of Service With Different Employer By Retiree
  (a) If a person becomes an employee of a municipality after beginning to receive a retirement benefit, and the municipality is not the person's reemploying...
• Texas Section 852.110 - Correction Of Errors
  (a) The retirement system, under rules adopted by the board of trustees, shall correct an error in current service performed, or current service credit that...

Last modified: September 28, 2016