Kansas Statutes 72-2679. Same; credit for service in armed forces; payment of contributions
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-2679
- 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
- board of education: when used in this act, shall mean any board of education which, prior to the effective date of this act, has established and is operating a retirement system under any of the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 72-26,123
- 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
Any school employee whose school service is interrupted at any time or has been interrupted subsequent to September 1, 1939, for involuntary service in the armed forces of the United States or, in time of war, for voluntary service in the armed forces of the United States, may, within one year after his return to the status of a school employee, or within one year after this act is in effect, upon application to the board of education, receive credit for the school service years otherwise lost by his service in the armed forces of the United States, by paying to the retirement fund the contributions he would have paid had he remained an employee of the board of education, the contributions to be computed on the basis of payments made during those years by employees in similar positions remaining in the service of the board of education. The board of education shall have the right to make provisions for receiving payment of such sums in installments within a period of not more than three years following date of application, by agreement with the employee.