Florida Florida Statutes

§ 122.07 — Seasonal state employment included; time limit and procedure for claiming

FS § 122.07Ch. 122

Statute text

(1)Any seasonal state employee who works for and draws compensation from the state or any of its departments for a period of more than 6 months during the fiscal year, that is, from July 1 of any year to June 30 of the following year, inclusive, but who works the remainder or a part of such fiscal year in the same or a similar capacity for another state or department thereof, may receive credit for the actual time employed by another state or department thereof, provided that such employee shall comply with the conditions hereinafter specified.

(2)Any state employee as described in subsection (1) in the classification set forth in s. 122.01 may elect to receive credit as a state employee under the State and County Officers and Employees' Retirement System by providing to the department a statement from the state in which he or she was employed, listing days employed and monthly earnings and such other information as may, in the opinion of the department, be necessary or appropriate in the carrying out of this section. Credit shall be granted upon payment to the department by such employee of an amount equal to the total retirement contribution that would have been required had the member worked in this state during the5 provisions of the retirement law. Once this election is made it may not be revoked and all present and future employees shall be compulsory members of the State and County Officers and Employees' Retirement System.

(2)All boards of hospital districts and county hospital corporations who now have officers and employees participating in the State and County Officers and Employees' System will continue to have such coverage as provided by this chapter. The presumption being that such boards have elected to come under the law.

(3)The rights of any officer or employee who is a member of the State and County Officers and Employees' Retirement System or who is receiving benefits under the provisions of this chapter, by virtue of Attorney General's opinion and Comptroller's rulings rendered prior to the declaratory decree of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida, March 1957, shall not be impaired or reduced.

Legislative history

ss. 1-4, ch. 57-47; s. 1, ch. 67-612.