(a) The chief justice of the supreme court is empowered to assign any retired state judge to:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-36-806

  • board: means the board provided for in part 3 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Creditable service: means prior service plus membership service, as provided in part 6 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Member: means any person included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 35, part 1 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Retirement: means withdrawal from membership with a retirement allowance granted under chapters 34-37 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Retirement allowance: means the sum of the member annuity and the state annuity. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Retirement system: means the Tennessee consolidated retirement system as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Service: means service as a general employee, a teacher, a state police officer, a wildlife officer, a firefighter, a police officer, a state judge, a county judge, an attorney general, a commissioner or a county official which is paid for by an employer, and also includes service for which a former member of the general assembly is entitled to under former §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • State judge: means any person in office as a judge of a court of record in this state, whose salary for the judge's judicial position has been paid during the period of the judge's service wholly from the treasury of the state, including the administrative director of the courts. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Superseded system: means , where applicable, the Tennessee state retirement system, the Tennessee teachers' retirement system, the Tennessee judges' retirement system, the retirement system for county paid judges of Tennessee, the attorneys general retirement system of Tennessee, the public service commissioners' retirement system, and the Tennessee retirement system for county officials, any one (1) of them, or any combination thereof. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Hold any court in the state whenever in the chief justice’s judgment it is necessary to do so in order to relieve congested dockets; or
(2) Sit for judges who may be incapacitated or who may be absent because of illness or otherwise.
(b) A retired state judge holding court hereunder shall be paid, in addition to the retirement allowance for the period during which the retired state judge sits as judge, the difference between the retired state judge’s retirement allowance for the period and the amount the retired state judge would receive for that period if the retired state judge were an active judge of the same court.
(c) The chief justice shall certify to the judicial cost accountant the date on which such service commences and the date on which such service terminates.
(d)

(1) Any retired judge assigned to duty under this section who has not attained the maximum creditable service shall be entitled to receive credit for services performed in such duty; provided, that:

(A) Such judge elects to receive such credit by notice to the board; and
(B) Such judge authorizes the deduction of the applicable contributions as set forth under chapter 37, part 2 of this title.
(2) Such service shall be added to the creditable service of such judge and, on July 1 of each year, such judge’s benefits shall be adjusted according to the superseded system or of the retirement system hereby created as may be appropriate.
(3) Notwithstanding this subsection (d) to the contrary, any retired judge assigned to duty under this section on or after July 1, 2018, shall reenroll as an active member of the retirement system, make such contributions as are required for the retiree’s position, and establish credit for the additional service.
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