Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-2632

• Board: shall mean the board of education of any city of the first class operating a retirement system under the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 72-26,115
• deductions: means the amounts withheld, as provided in this act, from warrants issued in payment for school services;

  (o) "actuarial computation" means computation in accordance with some standard actuarial table. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624

• Salary: shall mean the amount actually paid to the school employee for personal services plus the amount, if any, paid by the board of education toward an annuity for the school employee. See Kansas Statutes 72-2670
• School employee: shall mean any person regularly employed, and paid out of public funds, to perform services for the school district, and shall include all teachers, principals, superintendents, supervisors, librarians, clerks, secretaries, school nurses, attendance officers, managers, engineers, building superintendents, maintenance and repairmen, custodians, and all other persons regularly employed by the board of education. See Kansas Statutes 72-2670
• school employees: means persons who have performed or who shall hereafter perform school services as classroom teachers, administrators, supervisors, librarians, nurses, clerks, janitors or in any other full-time capacity in the public schools, area vocational-technical schools or community junior colleges of the state of Kansas and who are citizens of the United States and school employees shall include: (1) Persons who have performed service as a county superintendent of public instruction or as an employee appointed by and under the supervision of a county superintendent; (2) persons who have performed service as a state superintendent of public instruction or as an employee appointed by and under supervision of a state superintendent; (3) persons who have performed services as an employee appointed by the former state board for vocational education, except that prior to the time of accepting such employment by such county superintendent, state superintendent or state board for vocational education such employees had performed school service in Kansas as a teacher, principal, supervisor, or superintendent; (4) persons who are employees appointed by and under the supervision of the constitutional state board of education, including those employees transferred to the state department of education at its inception in January of 1969, and who prior to the time of accepting such employment by the state board of education had performed school service in Kansas as a teacher, principal, supervisor, or superintendent; (5) the commissioner of education if such commissioner exercises an irrevocable option to be covered by the state school retirement system in lieu of being covered by the Kansas public employees retirement system, which option shall be exercised by written notice of the commissioner of education at the time of appointment. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201