§ 41.007  PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT FUND (PERF) ELIGIBILITY FOR COUNTY EMPLOYEES.
   (A)   Under the state’s PERF statute, an employee who performs no more than 600 hours of service during a calendar year and who was hired prior to July 1, 1982 is ineligible for membership in PERF.
   (B)   An employee who performs services during the calendar year of fewer than 1,000 hours per year is not eligible for PERF.
   (C)   Those employees who perform at least 1,000 hours of service per year for the county in their employment are hereby declared full-time employees and are thus required to participate in PERF.
   (D)   Those employees who perform less than 1,000 hours per year of service for the county are hereby declared to be part-time employees and thus are not eligible to participate in PERF.
   (E)   (1)   Effective October 6, 2003, the employer desires to pick up all of the additional employee contributions made by employees through a binding irrevocable payroll deduction authorization. No additional employee contributions prior to the employer’s adoption of this division shall be picked-up.
      (2)   Additional employee contributions for state law purposes, are being paid by the employer in lieu of contributions by the employee.
      (3)   The employer shall comply with all of the terms and provisions of the pick-up regulation and applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
(Res. CC-93-2A, passed 1-28-1993; Res. R-C-03-4, passed 10-6-2003)