Terms Used In Texas Government Code 803.001

  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005

In this chapter:
(1) “Combined service credit” means the total of a person‘s service credit in only those retirement systems to which this chapter applies for which the total satisfies the length-of-service requirements for service retirement at the person’s attained age, and does not include:
(A) any service credit in a retirement system for which the total of a person’s service credit does not satisfy the length-of-service requirements for service retirement at the person’s attained age; or
(B) service credit earned with or allowed by a subdivision or municipality not participating in the program provided by this chapter or, as applicable, a subdivision or municipality whose participation is limited as provided by § 803.103.
(2) “Service credit” means service that is in a person’s account in a retirement system to which this chapter applies and that may be used to meet length-of-service requirements for service retirement in that system.
(3) Repealed by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 131, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.