§18-5-35. Group insurance.

Whenever a majority of the full-time instructional and administrative employees of a county board of education, or a majority of the full-time nonteaching employees of said board shall indicate in writing to the board of Education that it has subscribed to an automobile, a life, health and accident, hospitalization or surgery insurance, or death benefit plan on a group basis, and such majority has selected a licensed insurance agent or a company duly licensed to do business in this state to write or provide for any one or more of such group insurance, or death benefit coverages, the board may make proper periodical premium deductions from the regular salary of any such employee as specified in a written assignment furnished it by each such employee subscribing thereto, and pay the aggregate of such salary deductions over to the insurance company or companies or voluntary association so selected.

For the purpose of this section when an employee shall have attained the age of eighteen years, the said employee may be eligible to participate in the defined group plans.