§ 25-13-3. Eligibility for service retirement benefits
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the term “Highway Patrol or Highway Safety Patrol” for the purpose of establishing membership in this system for persons presently employed by the Highway Safety Patrol shall mean and include all the officers of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol who have completed a course […]
§ 25-13-5. Creditable service
Creditable service on which a member’s service or disability retirement benefit is based shall consist of “prior service” and membership service. Prior service shall mean service performed for the Highway Safety Patrol as defined in Section 25-13-3 before July 1, 1958 and service performed as a sworn agent for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics prior […]
§ 25-13-7. Custodian of fund; financing; payment of benefits; maintenance as separate fund
The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, as created by Sections 25-11-1 through 25-11-139, shall act as custodian of this Disability and Relief Fund for members of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol; shall receive to the credit of such fund all appropriations and other funds available as an employer’s contribution thereto from […]
§ 25-13-8. Employer to pay member contributions required for fund; tax treatment; methods of payment
The employer shall pick up the member contributions required by Section 25-13-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, for all compensation earned after June 30, 1982, and the contributions so picked up shall be treated as employer contributions in determining tax treatment under the United States Internal Revenue Code and Mississippi Income Tax Code; however, the employer […]