CHAPTER 5. GENERAL POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR, SECRETARY OF STATE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL; BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS; MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS, OFFICES, PROGRAMS, ETC.

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§5-10-1. Short title.
§5-10-2. Definitions.
§5-10-3. Retirement system created and established; body corporate.
§5-10-3a. Article to be liberally construed; supplements federal social security; federal qualification requirements.
§5-10-4. Effective date of system.
§5-10-5. Board of trustees created; powers and duties generally; composition.
§5-10-6. Trustees' terms of office.
§5-10-7. Vacancies on board.
§5-10-8. Trustees' compensation and expenses.
§5-10-9. Chairman and vice chairman; executive secretary; employees; treasurer; legal advisor; actuary.
§5-10-10. Board meetings; quorum; vote; proceedings.
§5-10-11. Reports required of board.
§5-10-12. Officer and employee bonds.
§5-10-13. Actuarial investigations and valuations; specification of actuarial assumptions.
§5-10-14. Service credit; retroactive provisions.
§5-10-15. Military service credit; qualified military service.
§5-10-15a. Retirement credited service through member's use, as option, of accrued annual or sick leave days.
§5-10-15b. Credit for public employment in another state.
§5-10-15c. Military service credit for members of the West Virginia National Guard.
§5-10-16. When and how political subdivision becomes participating public employer.
§5-10-17. Retirement system membership.
§5-10-18. Termination of membership; reentry.
§5-10-19. Employers to file information as to employees’ service.
§5-10-20. Voluntary retirement.
§5-10-21. Deferred retirement and early retirement.
§5-10-21a. Deferred retirement and early retirement for new members as of July 1, 2015.
§5-10-22. Retirement annuity.
§5-10-22a. Supplemental benefits for certain annuitants.
§5-10-22b. Supplemental benefits for certain annuitants.
§5-10-22c. Temporary early retirement incentives program; legislative declaration and finding of compelling state interest and public purpose; specifying eligible and ineligible members for incentives program; options, conditions, and exceptions; certain positions abolished; special rule of eighty; effective, termination, and notice dates.
§5-10-22d. Supplemental benefits for certain annuitants.
§5-10-22e. Supplemental benefits for retirees effective July 1, 1994; calculation of benefits and conditions of payment.
§5-10-22f. Minimum benefit for certain retirants; legislative declaration; state interest and public purpose.
§5-10-22g. One-time supplement for certain annuitants effective July 1, 2001.
§5-10-22h. Limitations on benefit increases.
§5-10-22i. One-time supplement for certain annuitants effective July 1, 2006.
§5-10-22j. One-time bonus payment for certain annuitants effective July 1, 2008.
§5-10-22k. One-time bonus payment for certain annuitants effective July 1, 2011.
§5-10-22l. Minimum benefit for certain retirants.
§5-10-22m. One-time bonus payment for certain annuitants.
§5-10-22n. Minimum benefit for certain annuitants.
§5-10-23. Terminal payment following retirement.
§5-10-24. Annuity options.
§5-10-25. Disability retirement.
§5-10-26. Reexamination of disability retirants; reemployment; adjustment of annuity for earnings.
§5-10-27. Preretirement death annuities.
§5-10-27a. Federal law maximum benefit limitations.
§5-10-27b. Federal law minimum required distributions.
§5-10-27c. Direct rollovers.
§5-10-27d. Rollovers and transfers to purchase service credit or
§5-10-28. Unified accounting; funds.
§5-10-29. Members' deposit fund; members' contributions; forfeitures.
§5-10-30. Refund of accumulated contributions.
§5-10-31. Employers Accumulation Fund; employers contributions.
§5-10-31a. Retroactive contributions to the retirement system for retroactive service credit granted; one year period for application.
§5-10-32. Appropriations for state contributions to retirement system; contributions for members paid from special funds or by other employers.
§5-10-33. Contributions by other participating public employers; withholding state money to satisfy delinquencies.
§5-10-34. Transfers to retirement reserve fund.
§5-10-35. Retirement reserve fund created; transfers from fund on reemployment.
§5-10-36. Income fund.
§5-10-37. Repealed. Acts, 1994 Reg. Sess., Ch. 133.
§5-10-38. Investment of moneys; bonds of state departments and institutions to be offered first to board of public works.
§5-10-39. No trustee, etc., shall gain from investments of system.
§5-10-40. Restricted use of retirement system moneys.
§5-10-41. Allowance of regular interest on balances in funds.
§5-10-42. Fiscal or plan year of retirement system.
§5-10-43. Pro rata reduction of annuities.
§5-10-44. Correction of errors; underpayments; overpayments.
§5-10-45. Fraud; penalty.
§5-10-46. Right to benefits not subject to execution, etc.; assignments prohibited; deductions for group insurance; setoffs for fraud; exception for certain domestic relations orders.
§5-10-47. Benefits exempt from taxes.
§5-10-48. Reemployment after retirement; options for holder of elected public office.
§5-10-49. Removal from office.
§5-10-50. Severability.
§5-10-51. Withdrawal.
§5-10-52. Specific provisions relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature.
§5-10-53. Joint study of state retirement systems; report to Joint Committee on Government and Finance by specified date of study conclusions.
§5-10-54. Termination of benefits; procedure.
§5-10-55. Benefits not to be forfeited if system terminates.
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