19-21-202. Effect on rights under teachers' retirement system. (1) An election under 19-21-201 to participate in the optional retirement program is a waiver of all rights and benefits under the teachers' retirement system except as provided in this section.
     (2) A member of the teachers' retirement system who elects to participate in the optional retirement program is considered, for the purpose of determining eligibility for rights and benefits under that system, to be no longer employed in a capacity that allows active membership in that system as of the effective date of the election. Thereafter, the member is considered an inactive member of the retirement system if qualified under 19-20-303, with the rights and privileges provided under 19-20-603(1). A member who elects to participate in the optional retirement program who does not qualify as an inactive member under 19-20-303 is considered a terminated member of the retirement system under 19-20-304(4).
     (3) A person who elects to participate in the optional retirement program is ineligible to be an active member of the teachers' retirement system while continuously employed in a position eligible to participate in the optional retirement program.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 494, L. 1987.