NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 561

HOUSE BILL 1072

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE RETIREMENT LAWS TO PROVIDE THE DEATH BENEFIT FOR MEMBERS FINISHING THE WORK YEAR IN WHICH THEY TURN 65.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 135-5(1), as the same appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting a new paragraph between the second and third paragraphs, to read as follows:

"Notwithstanding the above provisions, the death benefit shall be payable on account of the death of any member who died or dies on or after January 1, 1974, after attaining age 65, if he or she had not yet attained age 66, was at the time of death completing the work year for those individuals under specific contract, or during the fiscal year for those individuals not under specific contract, in which he or she attained 65, and otherwise met all conditions for payment of the death benefit."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1977.