Kansas Statutes 72-2639. Refund upon quitting service, when; return to service
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-2639
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Retirement system: means the state school retirement system;
(b) "board" means the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system;
(c) "school year" means either the twelve-month period beginning on September first, or the legal school term during such period. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624
- 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 service: means : (1) Service performed as a school employee prior to September 1, 1941, if such years of service include at least six months during the years 1938-39 or 1939-40 or 1940-41; service performed by any employee who was not in school service in any of the school years from 1938 to 1941, but who reentered school service after September 1, 1941, and continued in such service for at least five years; all service prior to September 1, 1941, of any annuitant who retired prior to September 1, 1961, and who was granted a service annuity for one or more years as a contributing member of the school retirement system; all service prior to September 1, 1941, of any employee who served for at least six months during one of the qualifying years from 1938 to 1941 in a school system maintaining its own separate retirement system in Kansas, if such employee has not qualified, nor will in the future qualify, for retirement benefits under the separate retirement system; all service as a school employee, including out-of-state service as a school employee, for a period of 10 or more years prior to September 1, 1938, except that service annuities paid by the state of Kansas to such school employees shall not include such out-of-state service as a school employee, unless otherwise provided by law; (2) service as a school employee after September 1, 1941, as a contributing member of the school retirement system. See Kansas Statutes 72-2624
In case any school employee quits school service at any time, notwithstanding the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5519 and amendments thereto, the amount credited to such school employee’s savings account, at the option of the school employee, shall be refunded to such school employee and such school employee’s claims upon the retirement fund, service annuity fund and employees savings fund shall be terminated. In case any such school employee who has two or more years of service in Kansas later returns to school service, subject to the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 74-49,123 and amendments thereto, such school employee may return the amount refunded to such school employee without either interest or penalty, and regain such school employee’s original status with the retirement system if such employee returns the amount so refunded within 12 months after the date such school employee reenters school service and if such school employee continues in school service for at least one school year, except that such person withdrawing from school service shall not be permitted to make application for funds credited to such person’s savings account until six months shall have expired after such person’s withdrawal from school service.