Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 19. PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 5. JUDGES' RETIREMENT

Part 5. Service Retirement Benefits

Eligibility For Service Retirement

19-5-501. Eligibility for service retirement. (1) Subject to a member's right to a refund of the member's accumulated contributions under Title 19, chapter 2, part 6, a vested member who has reached the age of 60 has attained normal retirement age and is eligible to receive the nonforfeitable service retirement benefit provided in 19-5-502.

(2) Retirement benefits may not be approved by the board while the member is drawing full compensation as a judge or justice. However, benefits may not be withheld for receiving compensation as a judge pro tempore.

History: (1)En. Sec. 11, Ch. 289, L. 1967; Sec. 93-1117, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 19, Ch. 289, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 332, L. 1977; Sec. 93-1125, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 93-1117, 93-1125(part); amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 663, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 102, Ch. 265, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 45, Ch. 99, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 176, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 57, Ch. 429, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 240, L. 2013.