Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 853 - Creditable Service
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 853.001 - Types Of Creditable Service
The types of service creditable as credited service in the retirement system are prior service and current service. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch....
- Texas Section 853.002 - Benefit Eligibility Based On Credited Service
A member's eligibility to receive a benefit is based on credited service at the time of retirement. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453,...
SUBCHAPTER B ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIOR SERVICE
- Texas Section 853.003 - Credited Service Previously Canceled
(a) An eligible member who has withdrawn contributions and canceled credited service in the retirement system may reestablish the canceled credit in the system if...
- Texas Section 853.101 - Creditable Prior Service
Prior service creditable in the retirement system is: (1) service performed as an employee of a participating department of a municipality before the date the...
- Texas Section 853.102 - Eligibility For Prior Service
(a) A member is eligible to receive credit in the retirement system for prior service if the member: (1) became a member as an employee...
- Texas Section 853.103 - Statement Of Prior Service
A member may claim credit for prior service by filing a detailed statement of the service with the city clerk or city secretary of the...
- Texas Section 853.104 - Certification Of Service And Average Compensation
(a) As soon as practicable after a member files a statement of prior service under Section 853.103, the municipality that employs the person who receives...
- Texas Section 853.105 - Determination Of Prior Service Credit
(a) After receiving a certification of prior service and average prior service compensation under Section 853.104, the board of trustees shall determine the member's prior...
- Texas Section 853.106 - Prior Service Certificate
(a) After determining a member's prior service credit under Section 853.105, the board of trustees shall issue to the member a prior service certificate stating:...
SUBCHAPTER C ESTABLISHMENT OF CURRENT SERVICE
- Texas Section 853.107 - Void Prior Service Certificate
(a) When a person's membership in the retirement system is terminated, any prior service certificate issued to the person becomes void. (b) A person whose...
SUBCHAPTER D OPTIONAL SERVICE
- Texas Section 853.201 - Creditable Current Service
Service performed as an employee member of a participating department of a municipality is credited in the retirement system for each month for which the...
- Texas Section 853.301 - Service For Certain Public Facilities
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may authorize the granting of prior service credit in the retirement system for service performed...
- Texas Section 853.302 - Service For Elected Officers
An elected officer who becomes a member of the retirement system on the effective date of an ordinance adopted under Section 852.107 is entitled to...
- Texas Section 853.303 - Prior Service Credit For Service For Nonparticipating Department
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may authorize the granting of prior service credit in the retirement system to an employee...
- Texas Section 853.304 - Prior Service Credit For Probationary Employment
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality which prior to September 1, 1989, engaged persons beginning work with the municipality on a probationary basis...
SUBCHAPTER E OPTIONAL INCREASES IN SERVICE CREDITS
- Texas Section 853.305 - Credit For Service With Nonparticipating Municipality, Airport Authority, Or Council Of Governments, Or Certain Service Previously Canceled
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may authorize the granting of restricted prior service credit to an employee who is a...
- Texas Section 853.401 - Ordinance Authorizing Updated Service Credits
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may authorize the crediting in the retirement system of...
- Texas Section 853.402 - Determination Of Updated Service Credits
(a) If a governing body sends the retirement system an ordinance adopted under Section 853.401, the retirement system shall determine for each affected member the...
- Texas Section 853.403 - Approval Of Ordinance
(a) An ordinance adopted under Section 853.401 may not take effect unless the board of trustees approves the ordinance as meeting the requirements of this...
SUBCHAPTER F MILITARY SERVICE
- Texas Section 853.404 - Allowance Of Updated Service Credit And Annuity Increases
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality that adopts an ordinance authorizing the crediting in the retirement system of updated service credits under Sections...
- Texas Section 853.501 - Military Service By Member
(a) A member of the retirement system is allowed credited service as provided in this subchapter if at any time the person: (1) leaves employment...
- Texas Section 853.502 - Other Military Service Credit
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may authorize eligible members in its employment to establish credit in the retirement system for...
- Texas Section 853.503 - Conditions For Receiving Military Service Credit
No person can receive credit for service under this subchapter unless: (1) the person's military service was terminated by release from active duty or discharge...
- Texas Section 853.504 - Establishment Of Military Service Credit
(a) An eligible member may establish credit under Section 853.501 by filing written application therefor with the retirement system, accompanied by satisfactory evidence of the...
- Texas Section 853.505 - Use Of Military Service Credit
(a) The retirement system shall use military service credit established under this subchapter in determining length-of-service requirements for benefits. (b) Except as provided by Section...
SUBCHAPTER G OPTIONAL UPDATED SERVICE CREDIT FOR TRANSFERRED SERVICE
- Texas Section 853.506 - Current Service For Reemployed Veterans
Notwithstanding any provision of this subtitle to the contrary, contributions, benefits, and service credit for qualified military service will be provided in accordance with Section...
- Texas Section 853.601 - Ordinance Authorizing Updated Service Credit For Transferred Service
(a) The governing body of a participating municipality in ordinances authorizing updated service credits under Section 853.401 on or after January 1, 1984, may provide...
Last modified: September 28, 2016