Florida Statutes 238.17 – Employees of nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers functioning on a statewide basis; intent
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 238.17
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Retirement system: means the Teachers' Retirement System of Florida provided for in…. See Florida Statutes 238.01
- Service: means service as a teacher as described in subsection (3) rendered while a member of the retirement system. See Florida Statutes 238.01
- Teacher: means any member of the teaching or professional staff and any certificated employee of any public free school, of any district school system and career center, any member of the teaching or professional staff of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, child training schools of the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Corrections, and any tax-supported institution of higher learning of the state, and any member and any certified employee of the Department of Education, any certified employee of the retirement system, any full-time employee of any nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers functioning in Florida on a statewide basis, which seeks to protect and improve public school opportunities for children and advance the professional and welfare status of its members, any person now serving as superintendent, or who was serving as county superintendent of public instruction on July 1, 1939, and any hereafter duly elected or appointed superintendent, who holds a valid Florida teachers' certificate. See Florida Statutes 238.01
It is the intent of this section to grant to employees of a nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers who are or become members of the Teachers’ Retirement System all the rights, privileges, and benefits therefrom as are or may be granted to all other members of the Teachers’ Retirement System; however, for other than creditable service as a teacher as defined in s. 238.01(3) rendered to a state, county, municipality, or other taxing district by any such employee, the state shall not make any contributions on account of such service.