Section 11652 - DefinitionsAs used in this act:
(1)"Board" means the County Retirement Board created by this act.(2)"County employe" means any person, whether elected or appointed, who is employed by the county, the county institution district, in the county prison or in any other institution maintained by the county from county moneys, or who is employed by any county or State official and paid by such official from moneys appropriated by the county for such purpose, whose salary or compensation is paid in regular periodic installments or from fees collected by his office, but shall not, except as hereafter provided, include any person employed after the effective date of this act on a part-time basis.(2.1)"Part-time" means employment with the expectation of completing less than 1000 hours of service during the 12-month period beginning on the first day of employment and each succeeding 12-month period thereafter.(3)"Fund" means the County Employes' Retirement Fund created by this act.(4)"Accumulated deductions" means the total of pickup contributions and the amounts deducted from the salary of a contributor and paid into the fund and standing to the credit of the members' annuity reserve account, together with the regular interest thereon.(4.1)"Compensation" means pickup contributions plus remuneration received as a county employe excluding refunds for expenses, contingency and accountable expense allowances and excluding severance payments or payments for unused vacation or sick leave.(5)"Contributor" means any person who has accumulated deductions in the fund standing to the credit of the members' annuity reserve account.(5.1) "Cost-of-living index" means the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland area for the 12- month period ending August 31 for the year in which the adjustment is reviewed.(6)"Retiree" means any person in receipt of a retirement allowance under this act.(7)"Prior service" means all service as a county employe served not later than December thirty-first, preceding the year the retirement system shall be established in any county.(8)"Original member" means a member who was a county employe on the date of establishment of the retirement system in the county.(9)"New member" means a member who shall have become a member of the retirement system after the establishment of the retirement system in said county.(10)"Superannuation retirement age" means sixty years of age or upwards, except as applied to a contributor who has completed twenty years of total service, in which case superannuation retirement age means fifty-five years of age or upwards.(11)"Final salary" means the average annual compensation received by the contributor for the three highest years of service in the employment of the county, or in the event a member has not served five years, the total compensation received divided by the number of years served.(12)"Regular interest" means interest at the rate of four per cent compounded annually, except as established by the board for member contributions.(13)"County annuity" means payments for life or during disability derived from contributions made by the county.(14)"Member's annuity" means payments for life or during disability derived from contributions made by the contributor and from pickup contributions.(14.1)"Pickup contributions" means regular member contributions which are made by the county on behalf of county employes for current service in accordance with section 7(c) . (15)"Retirement allowance" means the county annuity plus the member's annuity.(16)"Vesting" means the right of a contributor who separates from service after having completed five or more years of credited service to leave accumulated deductions credited to his account in the fund and upon reaching superannuation retirement age receive a superannuation retirement allowance.Amended by P.L. TBD 2015 No. 63, § 1, eff. 1/23/2016.1971, Aug. 31, P.L. 398, No. 96, § 2. Amended 1978, June 22, P.L. 495, No. 74, § 1, effective in 60 days; 1983, Dec. 20, P.L. 282, No. 75, § 1, imd. effective; 1990, Nov. 21, P.L. 551, No. 136, § 1, effective Jan. 1, 1991; 2003, Dec. 16, P.L. 236, No. 43, § 1, imd. effective.