As used in the Public Employees Retirement Reciprocity Act:

A. "association" means the public employees retirement association of New Mexico;

B. "board" means the retirement board provided for in the Public Employees Retirement Act [Chapter 10, Article 11 NMSA 1978] or the educational retirement board;

C. "educational retirement system" means that retirement system provided for in the Educational Retirement Act [Chapter 22, Article 11 NMSA 1978];

D. "eligible reciprocal service credit" means a minimum of one month of service credit under any state system as calculated according to the retirement act applicable to the member;

E. "former member" means a person who was previously employed by an employer covered by a state system, who has terminated that employment and who has received a refund of member contributions;

F. "judicial retirement system" means that retirement system provided for in the Judicial Retirement Act [Chapter 10, Article 12B NMSA 1978];

G. "magistrate retirement system" means that retirement system provided for in the Magistrate Retirement Act [Chapter 10, Article 12C NMSA 1978];

H. "member" means:

(1) a currently employed, contributing employee of an employer covered by a state system; or

(2) a person who has been but is not currently employed by an employer covered by a state system, who has not retired and who has not received a refund of member contributions from the state system under which he was covered;

I. "member contributions" means the amounts deducted from the salary of a member and credited to the member's individual account in a state system, together with interest, if any, credited to that account;

J. "pension" means a series of monthly payments to a retired member or survivor beneficiary as defined and provided in the Educational Retirement Act, the Public Employees Retirement Act, the Magistrate Retirement Act or the Judicial Retirement Act;

K. "public employees retirement system" means that retirement system provided for in the Public Employees Retirement Act;

L. "retire" means to:

(1) terminate employment with all employers covered by any state system; and

(2) receive a pension benefit from one state system;

M. "salary" means the member's salary as defined under the applicable retirement act; and

N. "state system" means a retirement program provided for in the Educational Retirement Act, the Public Employees Retirement Act, the Magistrate Retirement Act or the Judicial Retirement Act.

History: 1978 Comp., § 10-13A-2, enacted by Laws 1992, ch. 116, § 14; 1993, ch. 279, § 1.

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, added Subsection K, redesignating Subsections K through M as Subsections L through N; rewrote Subsections B and D and Subsection M; inserted "who has" in Subsection E; and inserted "Educational Retirement Act, the" in Subsection J and Subsection N.