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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 121st

CHAPTER 387
S.P. 501 - L.D. 1501

An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to the Maine State Retirement System

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

     Sec. 1. 4 MRSA §1201, sub-§7, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 853, Pt. C, §§15 and 18, is amended to read:

     7. Consumer Price Index. "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers: United States City Average, All items, 1967=100 Consumers, CPI-U, as compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; or, if the index is revised or superseded, the board shall employ the Consumer Price Index shall be the index represented compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as reflecting most accurately, United States Department of Labor that the board of trustees finds to be most reflective of changes in the purchasing power of the dollar by for the broadest population of consumers, including retired consumers.

     Sec. 2. 5 MRSA §17760, first ¶, as amended by PL 1991, c. 479, §2, is further amended to read:

     Service credit for service in the United States Armed Forces is governed as follows. Except as provided in subsection 1, paragraph B, subparagraph (1), service credit under this section is limited to 4 5 years.

     Sec. 3. 5 MRSA §17760, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 801, §§5 and 7, is amended to read:

     1. Service after becoming a member. A member is entitled to service credit for the period of time during which his the member's membership is continued under section 17655, subsection 1, under the following terms and conditions.

     Sec. 4. 5 MRSA §17911 is enacted to read:

§17911. Rehabilitation

     Upon agreement of the executive director and the person, rehabilitation services may be provided to any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit under this article as a means to the person being able to return to substantially gainful activity. As a condition of entering into an agreement to provide rehabilitation services, the executive director must determine that rehabilitation is feasible, that rehabilitation is consistent with the purposes of this article, that the recipient is suitable for rehabilitation services and that rehabilitation services are likely to lead to substantially gainful activity. When appropriate, determination of suitability must include consultation with the medical board to determine any medical indications that the recipient should not engage in a rehabilitation program or to identify a recipient too severely disabled to benefit from rehabilitation services in accordance with the purposes of this article. Services must be provided by private and public rehabilitation counselors, government agencies and others approved by the executive director as qualified to provide rehabilitation services. The executive director shall consider a rehabilitation counselor's rate of successfully placing rehabilitated employees in jobs relative to the placement rates of other counselors in the State as fundamental in deciding whether to approve the counselor as qualified. This section does not affect the ongoing requirement that a person remain disabled in order to continue to receive disability benefits.

     For the purposes of this section, "person" means any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit.

     1. Rehabilitation plan. If the executive director makes the determinations necessary to provide rehabilitation services under this section and rehabilitation agreed to by the parties, the retirement system shall designate a rehabilitation provider to evaluate the person and develop a rehabilitation plan.

     2. Costs. The executive director may contract with rehabilitation providers to develop and carry out approved rehabilitation plans.

     3. Approval of rehabilitation plan. The executive director and the person shall approve any rehabilitation plan developed under subsection 1 and shall indicate in writing their approval of and agreement to the rehabilitation plan. The person shall approve the plan within 30 days or, within that time period, submit to the executive director the name of an alternate provider for the executive director's consideration. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the employer for whom the person worked before becoming disabled, the employer also shall indicate in writing approval of the plan.

     4. Monitoring of rehabilitation plan. Each rehabilitation plan approved by the executive director must contain a provision for periodic review of progress being made by the person toward achieving the goal of the plan and substantially gainful activity. The provision relating to review must include authority for the executive director to terminate the plan or to amend the plan with the same provider or with a change of provider, based upon results of the review or at the request of the person or the provider. Subsections 1, 2 and 3 apply to any amended plans under this subsection. A person is entitled to a single rehabilitation plan during the course of the person's incapacity except when the person demonstrates that a termination of the plan was reasonable and for good cause. Any entitlement to amend a rehabilitation plan or establish a new plan ends with a determination by the executive director that the person is no longer disabled.

     5. Return to service. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the person's former employer, that person must be reemployed in accordance with the plan. The executive director shall notify the former employer, in writing, that the person has completed the rehabilitation plan and is ready to return to employment. The former employer shall reemploy the person in the first available position for which that person is qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan.

     6. Employment exception. A person is not required to accept employment that reasonably necessitates relocation or for which the person is not qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan. The disability retirement benefit may not be discontinued except as provided by section 17929 or until the person is reemployed consistent with this section.

     Sec. 5. 5 MRSA §17927, as amended by PL 1995, c. 643, §§12 and 13, is further amended to read:

§17927. Rehabilitation

     Rehabilitation Upon agreement of the executive director and the person, rehabilitation services must may be provided to any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit under this article whenever as a means to the person being able to return to substantially gainful activity. As a condition of entering into an agreement to provide rehabilitation services, the executive director determines must determine that rehabilitation is feasible, that rehabilitation is consistent with the purposes of this article and, that the recipient is suitable for rehabilitation services and that rehabilitation services are likely to lead to substantially gainful activity. When necessary appropriate, determination of suitability must include consultation with the medical board to determine any medical indications that the recipient should not engage in a rehabilitation program or to identify a recipient too severely disabled to benefit from rehabilitation services in accordance with the purposes of this article. Services must be provided by private and public rehabilitation counselors, government agencies and others approved by the executive director as qualified to provide rehabilitation services. The executive director shall consider a rehabilitation counselor's rate of successfully placing rehabilitated employees in jobs relative to the placement rates of other counselors in the State as fundamental in deciding whether to approve the counselor as qualified. This section does not affect the ongoing requirement that a person remain disabled in order to continue to receive disability benefits.

     For the purposes of this section, "person" means any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit.

     1. Rehabilitation plan. If the executive director makes the determinations necessary to provide rehabilitation services under this section and rehabilitation is feasible and recommended agreed to by the parties, the retirement system shall designate a rehabilitation provider to evaluate the person and develop a rehabilitation plan.

     2. Costs. The executive director may contract with rehabilitation providers to develop and carry out approved rehabilitation plans.

     3. Approval of rehabilitation plan. The executive director and the person shall approve any rehabilitation plan that the executive director finds to be in the person's best interest and consistent with the purposes of this article. The person and the executive director shall developed under subsection 1 and shall indicate in writing their approval of and agreement to the submitted rehabilitation plan. The person shall approve the plan within 30 days or, within that time period, submit to the executive director the name of an alternate provider for the executive director's consideration. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the employer for whom the person worked before becoming disabled, the employer shall also indicate in writing approval of the plan.

     4. Decline of rehabilitation. If a person declines use of the rehabilitation services offered or refuses to agree to a rehabilitation plan approved by the executive director, the disability retirement benefit payments cease at the end of the month following the decline or refusal.

     5. Monitoring of rehabilitation plan. Each rehabilitation plan approved by the executive director shall contain a provision for periodic review of progress being made by the person toward achieving the goal of the plan and substantially gainful activity. The provision relating to review shall must include authority for the executive director to terminate the plan or to amend the plan with the same provider or with a change of provider, based upon results of the review or at the request of the person or the provider. Subsections 1, 2, and 3 and 4 shall apply to any amended plans under this subsection. A person is entitled to a single rehabilitation plan during the course of the person's incapacity, except when the person demonstrates that a termination of the plan was reasonable and for good cause. Any entitlement to amend a rehabilitation plan or establish a new plan ends with a determination by the executive director that the person is no longer disabled.

     6. Return to service. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the person's former employer, that person must be reemployed in accordance with the plan. The executive director shall notify the former employer, in writing, that the person has completed the rehabilitation plan and is ready to return to employment. The former employer shall reemploy the person in the first available position for which that person is qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan.

     7. Other employment under system. A person is not required to accept employment that reasonably necessitates relocation or for which the person is not qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan. The disability retirement benefit may not be discontinued except as provided by section 17929 or until the person is reemployed consistent with this section.

     Sec. 6. 5 MRSA §18252, as amended by PL 2001, c. 699, §3, is further amended to read:

§18252.    Membership in districts with Social Security coverage under Social Security Section 218 agreement

     An employee who is or would be covered by the United States Social Security Act as a result of employment by a participating local district having a so-called "Social Security Section 218 agreement" may elect to join, not to join, to cease contributions to or to withdraw from the retirement system under the following conditions.

     1. New employees. A new employee may join the retirement system at the beginning of his employment or on any anniversary of the beginning of his employment, so long as he the employee is still an employee of the participating local district and the district continues to be a participating local district.

     2. Employee who is participating member. An employee who is a participating member of the retirement system and who wishes may elect to withdraw from cease contributions to the system may and, at the employee's discretion, may withdraw accumulated contributions in accordance with the procedures in section 18306.

     3. Employee who has previously ceased contributions. An employee who has previously withdrawn from elected to cease contributions to the retirement system, whether or not accumulated contributions have been withdrawn, may choose to rejoin the system within 3 years of withdrawal at any time under the following conditions.

     4. Employee who has previously withdrawn rejoins after 3 years. An employee who has previously withdrawn from the retirement system may choose to rejoin the system after 3 years of withdrawal under the following conditions.

     5. Limit on right to rejoin. The right of an employee to rejoin under either subsection 3 or 4 is limited to one occurrence.

     6. Restoration to service. If any person who is the recipient of a service retirement benefit is covered by the United States Social Security Act upon being restored to service, continuation of that person's benefit is governed by the following.

     Sec. 7. 5 MRSA §18252-A, sub-§1, ¶¶A and B, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 709, §4, are amended to read:

     Sec. 8. 5 MRSA §18360, first ¶, as amended by PL 1991, c. 479, §5, is further amended to read:

     Service credit for service in the Armed Forces of the United States is governed as follows. Except as provided in subsection 1, paragraph B, subparagraph (1), service credit under this section is limited to 4 5 years.

     Sec. 9. 5 MRSA §18360, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 801, §§5 and 7, is amended to read:

     1. Service after becoming a member. A member is entitled to service credit for the period of time during which his the member's membership is continued under section 18258, subsection 1, under the following terms and conditions.

     Sec. 10. 5 MRSA §18512 is enacted to read:

§18512. Rehabilitation

     Upon agreement of the executive director and the person, rehabilitation services may be provided to any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit under this article as a means to the person being able to return to substantially gainful activity. As a condition of entering into an agreement to provide rehabilitation services, the executive director must determine that rehabilitation is feasible, that rehabilitation is consistent with the purposes of this article, that the recipient is suitable for rehabilitation services and that rehabilitation services are likely to lead to substantially gainful activity. When appropriate, determination of suitability must include consultation with the medical board to determine any medical indications that the recipient should not engage in a rehabilitation program or to identify a recipient too severely disabled to benefit from rehabilitation services in accordance with the purposes of this article. Services must be provided by private and public rehabilitation counselors, government agencies and others approved by the executive director as qualified to provide rehabilitation services. The executive director shall consider a rehabilitation counselor's rate of successfully placing rehabilitated employees in jobs relative to the placement rates of other counselors in the State as fundamental in deciding whether to approve the counselor as qualified. This section does not affect the ongoing requirement that a person remain disabled in order to continue to receive disability benefits.

     For the purposes of this section, "person" means any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit.

     1. Rehabilitation plan. If the executive director makes the determinations necessary to provide rehabilitation services under this section and rehabilitation agreed to by the parties, the retirement system shall designate a rehabilitation provider to evaluate the person and develop a rehabilitation plan.

     2. Costs. The executive director may contract with rehabilitation providers to develop and carry out approved rehabilitation plans.

     3. Approval of rehabilitation plan. The executive director and the person shall approve any rehabilitation plan developed under subsection 1 and shall indicate in writing their approval of and agreement to the rehabilitation plan. The person shall approve the plan within 30 days or, within that time period, submit to the executive director the name of an alternate provider for the executive director's consideration. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the employer for whom the person worked before becoming disabled, the employer also shall indicate in writing approval of the plan.

     4. Monitoring of rehabilitation plan. Each rehabilitation plan approved by the executive director must contain a provision for periodic review of progress being made by the person toward achieving the goal of the plan and substantially gainful activity. The provision relating to review must include authority for the executive director to terminate the plan or to amend the plan with the same provider or with a change of provider, based upon results of the review or at the request of the person or the provider. Subsections 1, 2 and 3 apply to any amended plans under this subsection. A person is entitled to a single rehabilitation plan during the course of the person's incapacity except when the person demonstrates that a termination of the plan was reasonable and for good cause. Any entitlement to amend a rehabilitation plan or establish a new plan ends with a determination by the executive director that the person is no longer disabled.

     5. Return to service. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the person's former employer, that person must be reemployed in accordance with the plan. The executive director shall notify the former employer, in writing, that the person has completed the rehabilitation plan and is ready to return to employment. The former employer shall reemploy the person in the first available position for which that person is qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan.

     6. Employment exception. A person is not required to accept employment that reasonably necessitates relocation or for which the person is not qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan. The disability retirement benefit may not be discontinued except as provided by section 17929 or until the person is reemployed consistent with this section.

     Sec. 11. 5 MRSA §18527, as amended by PL 1995, c. 643, §§24 and 25, is further amended to read:

§18527. Rehabilitation

     Rehabilitation Upon agreement of the executive director and the person, rehabilitation services must may be provided to any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit under this article if as a means to the person being able to return to substantially gainful activity. As a condition of entering into an agreement to provide rehabilitation services, the executive director determines must determine that rehabilitation is feasible, that rehabilitation is consistent with the purposes of this article and, that the recipient is suitable for rehabilitation services and that rehabilitation services are likely to lead to substantially gainful activity. When necessary appropriate, determination of suitability must include consultation with the medical board to determine any medical indications that the recipient should not engage in a rehabilitation program or to identify a recipient too severely disabled to benefit from rehabilitation services in accordance with the purposes of this article. Services must be provided by private and public rehabilitation counselors, government agencies and others approved by the executive director as qualified to provide rehabilitation services. The executive director shall consider a rehabilitation counselor's rate of successfully placing rehabilitated employees in jobs relative to the placement rates of other counselors in the State as fundamental in deciding whether to approve the counselor as qualified. This section does not affect the ongoing requirement that a person remain disabled in order to continue to receive disability benefits.

     For the purposes of this section, "person" means any person who is the recipient of a disability retirement benefit.

     1. Rehabilitation plan. If the executive director makes the determinations necessary to provide rehabilitation services under this section and rehabilitation is feasible and recommended agreed to by the parties, the retirement system shall designate a rehabilitation provider to evaluate the person and develop a rehabilitation plan.

     2. Costs. The executive director may contract with rehabilitation providers to develop and carry out approved rehabilitation plans.

     3. Approval of rehabilitation plan. The executive director and the person shall approve any rehabilitation plan the executive director finds to be in the person's best interest and consistent with the purposes of this article. The person and the executive director shall developed under subsection 1 and shall indicate in writing their approval of and agreement to the submitted rehabilitation plan. The person shall approve the plan within 30 days or, within that time period, submit to the executive director the name of an alternate provider for the executive director's consideration. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the employer for whom the person worked before becoming disabled, the employer shall also indicate in writing approval of the plan.

     4. Decline of rehabilitation. If a person declines use of the rehabilitation services offered or refuses to agree to a rehabilitation plan approved by the executive director, the disability retirement benefit payments cease at the end of the month following the decline or refusal.

     5. Monitoring of rehabilitation plan. Each rehabilitation plan approved by the executive director shall contain a provision for periodic review of progress being made by the person toward achieving the goal of the plan and substantially gainful activity. The provision relating to review shall must include authority for the executive director to terminate the plan or to amend the plan with the same provider or with a change of provider, based upon results of the review or at the request of the person or the provider. Subsections 1, 2, and 3 and 4 shall apply to any amended plans under this subsection. A person is entitled to a single rehabilitation plan during the course of the person's incapacity, except when the person demonstrates that a termination of the plan was reasonable and for good cause. Any entitlement to amend a rehabilitation plan or establish a new plan ends with a determination by the executive director that the person is no longer disabled.

     6. Return to service. If the rehabilitation plan includes return to employment with the person's former employer, that person must be reemployed in accordance with the plan. The executive director shall notify the former employer, in writing, that the person has completed the rehabilitation plan and is ready to return to employment. The former employer shall reemploy the person in the first available position for which that person is qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan.

     7. Other employment under system. A person is not required to accept employment that reasonably necessitates relocation or for which the person is not qualified, taking into consideration that person's prior compensation and benefits, training, education and experience, including training and education received under that person's rehabilitation plan. The disability retirement benefit may not be discontinued except as provided by section 18529 or until the person is reemployed consistent with this section.

     Sec. 12. 5 MRSA §18801, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 811, §3, is amended to read:

     6. Plan design and amendments. The rules adopted by the board must be based entirely upon proposals for the consolidated retirement plan and proposed amendments to the consolidated retirement plan received from the Participating Local District Advisory Committee or from the retirement system staff. The board shall adopt as a rule any proposal received from the Participating Local District Advisory Committee or return the proposal to the advisory committee with a statement setting forth the reasons for not adopting the proposal.

     Sec. 13. 5 MRSA §18802-A, sub-§§5 and 6, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 12, §1 and affected by §2, are amended to read:

     5. Transaction of business. The transaction of business by the advisory committee is governed as follows.

     6. Proposal for plan design or amendment. The advisory committee shall or the retirement system staff may present to the board proposals for the consolidated retirement plan and amendments to the plan. Passage of any resolution or any other action by the advisory committee relating to proposals for the consolidated retirement plan or proposed amendments to the consolidated retirement plan requires 8 affirmative votes of a simple majority of the quorum or, if greater, of the voting members present.

     Sec. 14. PL 2001, c. 442, §5, as amended by PL 2001, c. 557, §1 and c. 699, §7, is further amended to read:

     Sec. 5. Status of employees who have retired and returned to covered employment under the Maine State Retirement System; choice to retire rather than continue to work. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 17651 and section 17652, recipients of a service retirement benefit from the Maine State Retirement System who have returned to covered employment under the retirement system in a position that would otherwise be covered by the retirement plan for state employees and teachers may not contribute to rejoin the retirement system, do not earn creditable service for their employment after retirement and do not earn any additional retirement benefits as a result of that employment. By retiring from a position covered under the retirement system, an employee exercises that employee's choice between continuing to work and thereby continuing to accrue retirement service credit and, potentially, an increased earnable compensation, and retiring, with both service credit and earnable compensation thereby becoming fixed. The employee's retirement constitutes the employee's knowing and voluntary waiver of any claim of any nature under federal or state law with respect to retirement system service credit or earnable compensation related to return to employment after retirement. They Recipients of a service retirement benefit from the retirement system may participate in other retirement options available to similar employees, including the state program of tax-deferred arrangements under Title 5, chapter 67, at the discretion of their employer. For purposes of participation in the state employee health insurance program pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 285 or in dental health insurance coverage offered by the State, recipients of a service retirement benefit under the Maine State Retirement System who are retired state employees and who are reemployed as state employees must be treated as retirees under section 285, subsection 1-A for purposes of eligibility for coverage under the group plan. A recipient of a service retirement benefit under the Maine State Retirement System who is a retired teacher and who returns to work as a teacher under this Act is eligible for coverage under the group health insurance plan for active teachers in the school administrative unit in which newly employed. For purposes of participation in the group accident and sickness or health insurance for retired teachers pursuant to Title 20-A, section 13451, a recipient of a service retirement benefit under the Maine State Retirement System who is a retired teacher who returns to work under this Act is eligible upon ceasing work to return to coverage under the group health insurance plan in effect for active teachers in the school unit from which the teacher originally retired, including state payment of a percentage of the premium cost under section 13451.

     Sec. 15. PL 2001, c. 442, §§6 and 7 are enacted to read:

     Sec. 6. Interpretation and application; rulemaking. The provisions of this Act that establish the opportunity to retire from a position covered under the retirement system and to thereafter return to work in a position covered under the retirement system with no reduction of retirement benefits or limitation on compensation must be interpreted and applied in a manner that meets applicable requirements of federal law and regulation, including, but not limited to, the Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Service regulations. The retirement system shall adopt rules for the interpretation and application of the provisions that reflect these requirements. Rules adopted under this section are routine technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

     Sec. 7. Reporting requirements. Retirement system employers are required to identify and report to the retirement system, in the manner specified by the retirement system, each individual who is a retiree who becomes an employee of the employer. The employer shall report each such employee whenever and so long as an employee is the employer's employee. The employer shall inquire of individuals hired to ascertain whether an individual is a retiree and the individual shall disclose that. "Employer" includes the State, all school administrative units and all participating local districts. "Employee" means an already retired individual receiving a Maine State Retirement System retirement benefit, regardless of the retirement system plan retired under, who after retirement is employed by an employer as defined in this section. "Retire" means to receive a retirement benefit from the retirement system. "Retiree" means an individual who receives a retirement benefit from the retirement system under any of the retirement system's retirement plans.

     Sec. 16. PL 2001, c. 699, §8 is amended to read:

     Sec. 8. Status of employees who have retired and returned to covered participating local district employment under Maine State Retirement System. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 18251, subsection 1 section 18252 and section 18252-A, recipients of a service retirement benefit from the Maine State Retirement System for service in the employment of a participating local district who have returned to covered employment under the retirement system in a position that would otherwise be covered by the retirement plan for a participating local district may not contribute to rejoin the retirement system, do not earn creditable service for their employment after retirement and do not earn any additional retirement benefits as a result of that employment. By retiring from a position covered under the retirement system, an employee exercises that employee's choice between continuing to work and thereby continuing to accrue retirement service credit and, potentially, an increased earnable compensation, and retiring, with both service credit and earnable compensation thereby becoming fixed. The employee's retirement constitutes the employee's knowing and voluntary waiver of any claim of any nature under federal or state law with respect to retirement service credit or earnable compensation related to return to employment after retirement. This section applies only to retired participating local district employees to whom Title 5, section 17001, subsection 32, paragraph B applies.

     Sec. 17. PL 2001, c. 699, §§9 and 10 are enacted to read:

     Sec. 9. Interpretation and application; rulemaking. The provisions of this Act that establish the opportunity to retire from a position covered under the retirement system and to thereafter return to work in a position covered under the retirement system with no reduction of retirement benefits or limitation on compensation must be interpreted and applied in a manner that meets applicable requirements of federal law and regulation, including, but not limited to, the Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Service regulations. The retirement system shall adopt rules for the interpretation and application of the provisions that reflect these requirements. Rules adopted under this section are routine technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

     Sec. 10. Reporting requirements. Retirement system employers are required to identify and report to the retirement system, in the manner specified by the retirement system, each individual who is a retiree who becomes an employee of the employer. The employer shall report each such employee whenever and so long as an employee is the employer's employee. The employer shall inquire of individuals hired to ascertain whether an individual is a retiree and the individual shall disclose that. "Employer" includes the State, all school administrative units and all participating local districts. "Employee" means an already retired individual receiving a Maine State Retirement System retirement benefit, regardless of the retirement system plan retired under, who after retirement is employed by an employer as defined in this section. "Retire" means to receive a retirement benefit from the retirement system. "Retiree" means an individual who receives a retirement benefit from the retirement system under any of the retirement system's retirement plans.

Effective September 13, 2003, unless otherwise indicated.

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