Missouri Laws 104.608 – General assembly member may become consultant if denied credit in system ..
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 104.608
- 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.
- Annuity: annual payments, made in equal monthly installments, to a retired member from funds provided for in, or authorized by, this chapter. See Missouri Laws 104.010
- Board of trustees: "board", or "trustees", a board of trustees as established for the applicable system pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 104.010
- Creditable service: the sum of membership service and creditable prior service, to the extent such service is standing to a member's credit as provided in this chapter. See Missouri Laws 104.010
- Fund: the benefit fund of a system established pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 104.010
- Member: as used in sections 104. See Missouri Laws 104.010
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
- retirement system: the Missouri department of transportation and highway patrol employees' retirement system, as created by sections 104. See Missouri Laws 104.010
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
Upon application to the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees’ retirement system, any person who has served at least three full biennial assemblies as a member of the general assembly, and who has been denied credit for any service rendered as a member of the general assembly because he was a member of some other retirement or benefit fund to which the state was a contributor shall be made, constituted, appointed, and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retirement for the remainder of the person’s life. Upon request of the board, the consultant shall give opinions or be available to give opinions in writing or orally in response to such requests. As compensation the consultant shall receive creditable service for all service rendered as a member of the general assembly and be a member of the Missouri state employees’ retirement system and shall be entitled to a normal annuity or to a deferred normal annuity, based on the person’s service as a member of the general assembly and the law in effect at the time service as a member of the general assembly was terminated.