Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 72-26,124

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 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

The members of any retirement system of any board of education operating under any of the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-1726 to 72-1734, both sections inclusive, or Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-1780 to 72-17,107, both sections inclusive, (not including members previously retired) and who are school employees as said term is defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5501 or any amendments thereto, shall become members of the state school retirement system in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5501 or any amendments thereto on September 1st following: (a) The presentation of a petition signed by not less than fifty-one percent (51%) of members of such retirement systems, exclusive of members who have retired, requesting membership in the state school retirement system and requesting continuation of the retirement system of the board of education as a supplemental retirement system in accordance with the provisions of this act, and (b) passage of a resolution by the board of education providing for the continuation of its retirement system as a supplemental retirement system in accordance with the provisions of this act.

The sufficiency of the petition shall be determined by the board of education, and upon the filing of such petition and passage of a resolution as provided above, the clerk of the board shall certify to the state school retirement board that such petition has been presented and such resolution has been adopted. The board of education shall contribute to the state school retirement system from the retirement fund of the board of education the amounts required by subsection (d) of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5501 to enable the members of its retirement system to become eligible for membership in the state school retirement system: Provided, That in the event any member of the retirement system of the board of education who becomes a member of the state school retirement system shall be retired before continuing in service under said state school retirement system for a year, and is thereby ineligible to receive any annuity from the state school retirement system, the amount contributed by the board of education to the state school retirement fund for the benefit of such member shall be repaid to the board of education and placed in its supplemental retirement fund. School employees of the board of education who are not members of its retirement system may, if otherwise eligible, elect to become members of the state school retirement system, and shall be entitled to service credit in the state school retirement system in accordance with the provisions thereof.