Public Employees' Retirement Association
C.R.S. tit. 24, art. 51
in effectContents
section24-51-101. Definitionssection24-51-201. Public employees' retirement association - creationsection24-51-202. Board of trustees - creationsection24-51-203. Board - composition and electionsection24-51-204. Duties of the boardsection24-51-205. General authority of the boardsection24-51-206. Investmentssection24-51-207. Standard of conductsection24-51-208. Allocation of moneyssection24-51-209. Disbursementssection24-51-210. Allocation of assets and liabilitiessection24-51-211. Amortization of liabilitiessection24-51-211.5. Notice of possible change in benefits - actuarial necessitysection24-51-212. Funds not subject to legal processsection24-51-213. Confidentialitysection24-51-214. Benefits not offset by workers' compensation benefitssection24-51-215. Insurance and banking laws not applicablesection24-51-216. Legal advisersection24-51-217. Terminationsection24-51-218. Unclaimed moneysection24-51-219. Merger of school district retirement systemsection24-51-220. Reporting to general assembly - inclusion of climate risk assessment in annual stewardship reportsection24-51-221. Information provided to employer - salary definitionsection24-51-301. Required membershipsection24-51-302. Optional membershipsection24-51-303. Members of the general assemblysection24-51-304. Employees of the general assemblysection24-51-305. District attorneyssection24-51-305.5. Employees of district attorneyssection24-51-306. Elected state officialssection24-51-307. Elected municipal officialssection24-51-308. City managers and key management staffsection24-51-309. Affiliation by public entitiessection24-51-310. Persons not eligible for membershipsection24-51-311. Continuation of membershipsection24-51-312. Payment of contributionssection24-51-313. Termination of affiliation - employer assigned to local government division - requirementssection24-51-314. Termination of affiliation - rights of benefit recipients and inactive memberssection24-51-315. Termination of affiliation - reserves requirementsection24-51-316. Inadequate reserves - excess reserves - nonpaymentsection24-51-317. Termination of affiliation - member contributionssection24-51-318. Purchase of forfeited service creditsection24-51-319. Retirement plan - creation and usesection24-51-320. Reaffiliation of a public entitysection24-51-321. No state liability - political subdivision pension planssection24-51-401. Employer and member contributionssection24-51-402. Unpaid contributions for any member - legislative declarationsection24-51-403. Contributions assumed and paid by the employersection24-51-404. Combining member contributionssection24-51-405. Refund of the member contribution accountsection24-51-405.5. Direct rolloverssection24-51-406. Payments from the judicial divisionsection24-51-407. Interestsection24-51-408. Matching employer contributionssection24-51-408.5. Matching employer contribution on voluntary contributions made by members to tax-deferred retirement programssection24-51-409. Refund of erroneous member contributionsection24-51-410. Anticipation of forfeitures in determining plan costsection24-51-411. Amortization equalization disbursementsection24-51-412. Denver public schools district - contributions and disbursements - legislative declarationsection24-51-413. Contribution and annual increase amount changes - definitionssection24-51-414. Direct distributionsection24-51-415. Defined contribution supplementsection24-51-416. PERA payment cash fund - creation - repealsection24-51-501. Earned service creditsection24-51-502. Purchased service creditsection24-51-503. Purchase of service credit relating to a refunded member contribution accountsection24-51-504. Purchase of service credit relating to a paid sabbatical leavesection24-51-505. Purchase of service credit relating to noncovered employmentsection24-51-506. Payments for purchased service creditsection24-51-507. Uniformed service creditsection24-51-508. Leave of absence for uniformed servicesection24-51-509. Combining service creditsection24-51-601. Retirement benefit reservesection24-51-601.5. Legislative declarationsection24-51-602. Service retirement eligibilitysection24-51-603. Benefit formula for service retirementsection24-51-604. Reduced service retirement eligibilitysection24-51-605. Benefit formula for reduced service retirementsection24-51-605.5. Benefit calculation for money purchase retirement benefitsection24-51-606. Vested inactive member rightssection24-51-606.5. Indexation of benefits for vested inactive memberssection24-51-607. Benefit formula for service retirement or reduced service retirement involving direct paymentssection24-51-608. Retirement from the judicial divisionsection24-51-609. Service credit exceeding twenty yearssection24-51-610. Division from which a member retiressection24-51-611. Maximum limit under federal lawsection24-51-612. Required benefit commencement datesection24-51-613. Transfer mechanism between PERA and the Denver public schools employees' pension and benefit associationsection24-51-614. Employee retirement benefit studysection24-51-615. Distribution of benefitssection24-51-701. Eligibility to apply for short-term disability program payments and disability retirementsection24-51-702. Disability programssection24-51-703. Disability program design and administrationsection24-51-704. Calculation of disability retirement benefitsection24-51-705. Ineligibilitysection24-51-706. Disability determination for members of the judicial divisionsection24-51-707. Continuation of disability retirement benefits - reduction based on earned income - applications made prior to January 1, 1999section24-51-708. Division from which a disabled member retiressection24-51-801. Benefit optionssection24-51-802. Change in option or cobeneficiarysection24-51-803. Determination of option 2 or 3 benefitssection24-51-901. Survivor benefits reservesection24-51-902. Modification of named beneficiariessection24-51-903. Distribution to named beneficiariessection24-51-904. Survivor benefits - eligibility - "member" definedsection24-51-905. Deceased member who was not eligible for service or reduced service retirementsection24-51-906. Deceased member who was eligible for service or reduced service retirementsection24-51-907. Form of survivor benefits and single paymentssection24-51-908. Survivor benefitssection24-51-909. Surviving spouse's benefitssection24-51-910. Option 3 benefitssection24-51-911. Commencement of survivor benefits or single paymentsection24-51-912. Termination of survivor benefitssection24-51-913. Payment upon termination of survivor benefitssection24-51-914. Reciprocal survivor benefits agreementsection24-51-1001. Types of benefit increasessection24-51-1002. Annual percentages to be usedsection24-51-1003. Annual increases in the base benefitsection24-51-1004. Annual increases for benefits effective prior to May 1, 1969section24-51-1005. Cost of living stabilization fundsection24-51-1006. Cost of living increasessection24-51-1007. Service credit exceeding twenty yearssection24-51-1008. Purchased service credit excludedsection24-51-1009. Annual increase reserve - creationsection24-51-1009.5. Annual increase amount changessection24-51-1010. Increase in benefits - actuarial assessment requiredsection24-51-1101. Employment after service retirement - report - definitions - repealsection24-51-1102. Reduction of a service retirement benefit - disclosure of service agreements by employers - definitionssection24-51-1103. Contributions for a retiree who returns to membership - benefit calculation upon subsequent retirement - survivor benefit rights - disability retirement benefitssection24-51-1103.5. Contributions for a retiree employed by a school district during critical shortage - no benefit calculation upon subsequent termination - repealsection24-51-1104. Employment after disability retirementsection24-51-1105. Retirees from the judicial divisionsection24-51-1201. Health care trust fundsection24-51-1202. Health care program - designsection24-51-1203. Authority to contract and to self-insuresection24-51-1204. Health care program - eligibilitysection24-51-1205. Enrollmentsection24-51-1206. Premium subsidysection24-51-1206.5. Health care trust fund subsidy fundingsection24-51-1206.7. Denver public schools division premium subsidysection24-51-1207. Cancellation of enrollmentsection24-51-1208. Long-term care insurancesection24-51-1301. Plan sponsored group life insurancesection24-51-1302. Premiums for group life insurancesection24-51-1303. Life insurance beneficiarysection24-51-1304. Life insurance for certain retired state employeessection24-51-1401. Voluntary investment program established and fund createdsection24-51-1402. Contributions to the voluntary investment programsection24-51-1403. Expenses of the voluntary investment programsection24-51-1404. Investments of the voluntary investment programsection24-51-1500.2. Legislative declarationsection24-51-1501. Defined contribution plan - establishment - creation of fund - definitionssection24-51-1502. New eligible employees - election - definitionssection24-51-1502.5. New community college employees - electionsection24-51-1503. Defined contribution plan optionsection24-51-1504. Investmentssection24-51-1505. Contributions - vesting - definitionsection24-51-1506. Additional choices within first five yearssection24-51-1506.5. Additional choices for employees who were eligible employees before January 1, 2006section24-51-1507. Transfer or rollover into plansection24-51-1508. Distribution optionssection24-51-1509. Rights of defined contribution plan memberssection24-51-1510. Report to memberssection24-51-1511. Limitation on actions by eligible employeessection24-51-1601. Deferred compensation plan and trust fundsection24-51-1602. Affiliation with the deferred compensation plansection24-51-1603. Contributions to the deferred compensation plansection24-51-1604. Expenses of the deferred compensation plansection24-51-1605. Investments of the deferred compensation plansection24-51-1701. Legislative declarationsection24-51-1702. Definitionssection24-51-1703. Denver public schools division - consolidationsection24-51-1704. Service creditsection24-51-1705. Purchase of service credit relating to a refunded member contribution account and noncovered employmentsection24-51-1706. Accreditation of casual employment and qualifiable leavesection24-51-1707. Affiliate membershipsection24-51-1708. Unclaimed moneyssection24-51-1709. Arrearagessection24-51-1710. Earned servicesection24-51-1711. Contributions - refundssection24-51-1712. Application for retirement benefitssection24-51-1713. Eligibility - retirements without actuarial reductionsection24-51-1714. Eligibility - retirements requiring actuarial reductionsection24-51-1715. Benefitssection24-51-1716. Optional forms of allowancesection24-51-1717. Option Asection24-51-1718. Option Bsection24-51-1719. Option Csection24-51-1720. Option Dsection24-51-1721. Option Esection24-51-1722. Additional optional forms of allowance beginning December 31, 2004section24-51-1723. Option P2section24-51-1724. Option P3section24-51-1725. Determination of option P2 or P3 benefitssection24-51-1726. Minimum benefits - contributing members and affiliate memberssection24-51-1726.5. Contributions for a retiree who returns to membership - benefit calculation upon subsequent retirement - survivor benefit rightssection24-51-1727. Eligibility for deferred memberssection24-51-1728. Accredited service - deferred memberssection24-51-1729. Benefits - deferred memberssection24-51-1730. Deferred member deathsection24-51-1731. Benefits for deferred members determined upon date of terminationsection24-51-1732. Benefit increases - annual retirement allowance adjustment - contributing members - affiliate members - deferred members - survivors (2001 and 2005)section24-51-1733. Domestic relations ordersection24-51-1734. Disability retirementsection24-51-1735. Survivor benefits - refundsection24-51-1736. Eligibility for survivor benefitssection24-51-1737. Eligible beneficiariessection24-51-1738. Survivors of members who died between 1974 and 1984section24-51-1739. Survivors of members who died between 1984 and 1988section24-51-1740. Survivors of members who die in 1988 or latersection24-51-1741. Effective date of survivor benefitssection24-51-1742. Election by designated beneficiarysection24-51-1743. When election becomes irrevocablesection24-51-1744. Fund transfersection24-51-1745. Payment in good faithsection24-51-1746. Waive appointment of guardiansection24-51-1747. Portability between the Denver public schools division and the other four divisions within the association - definitionssection24-51-1748. Staff members of the Denver public schools retirement system
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