Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-2649

  • 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 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
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

If a school employee as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 72-5515, is eligible to receive only one-half of service credit in a school year and deductions are applicable only to the first two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) of the gross salary paid during a school year for school service, is also employed at least one-half time by an agency of the state of Kansas in nonschool service such school employee may request in writing to the school employer on such forms as may be required by the retirement board, that the four percent (4%) deduction be applicable to the first five thousand dollars ($5,000) of the combined gross salaries. Such deduction shall be made by the school employer entirely from the salary for school service and remitted and credited the same as other such deductions. Upon receipt of such written request and deductions the retirement board shall grant full service credit as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 72-5501. In the event such nonschool service does not extend over the full school year the retirement board shall have sole discretion to determine if full service credit shall be granted.