TITLE 80: PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES SUBTITLE D: RETIREMENT SYSTEMS CHAPTER I: STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS PART 1540 THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF THE STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS The General Assembly's Illinois Administrative Code database includes only those rulemakings that have been permanently adopted. This menu will point out the Sections on which an emergency rule (valid for a maximum of 150 days, usually until replaced by a permanent rulemaking) exists. The emergency rulemaking is linked through the notation that follows the Section heading in the menu. Section 1540.5 Introduction Section 1540.10 Appointment of Retirement System Coordinator Section 1540.20 Member's Contribution and Service Credit Section 1540.30 Determination of Rate of Compensation Section 1540.40 Prior Service Credit Section 1540.50 Credit for Service for Which Contributions are Permitted Section 1540.60 Severance of Employment – A Condition to the Payment of a Refund or Retirement Annuity Section 1540.70 Death Benefits Section 1540.80 Disability Claims Section 1540.90 Benefit Offset Section 1540.100 Birth Date Verification Section 1540.110 Marriage Verification Section 1540.120 Level Income Option Section 1540.130 Pension Credit for Unused Sick Leave Section 1540.140 Removal of Children from Care of Surviving Spouse Section 1540.150 Proof of Dependency Section 1540.160 Investigations of Benefit Recipients Section 1540.170 Interest on Member Contributions Section 1540.180 Date of Application – Retirement Annuity, Occupational and Nonoccupational and Temporary Disability Benefits, and Resignation Refund Payments Section 1540.190 Lump Sum Salary Payments Section 1540.200 Removal From the Payroll Section 1540.210 Latest Date of Membership Section 1540.220 Period for Payment and Amount of Payment of Contributions Section 1540.230 Contributions By the State (Repealed) Section 1540.240 Actuarially Funded Basis (Repealed) Section 1540.250 Payments to Establish Credit for Service for Which Contributions are Permitted Section 1540.255 Pick-up Option for Optional Service Contributions Section 1540.260 Contributions and Service Credit During Nonwork Periods Section 1540.270 Written Appeals and Hearings Section 1540.280 Availability for Public Inspection (Recodified) Section 1540.290 Procedure for Submission, Consideration and Disposition of Petitions Seeking the Promulgation, Amendment or Repeal of these Rules and Regulations (Recodified) Section 1540.300 Organization of the State Employees' Retirement System (Recodified) Section 1540.310 Amendments Section 1540.320 Optional Forms of Benefits - Basis of Computation Section 1540.330 Board Elections Section 1540.340 Excess Benefit Arrangement Section 1540.350 Qualified Illinois Domestic Relations Orders (QILDRO) Section 1540.TABLE A Optional Forms of Benefits - Basis of Computation

AUTHORITY: Implementing and authorized by Article 14 of the Illinois Pension Code [40 ILCS 5/Art. 14].

SOURCE: Filed December 20, 1977, effective December 31, 1977; filed and effective February 28, 1978; emergency rule at 4 Ill. Reg. 2, page 246, effective January 1, 1980; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 12, pages 530, 532, 534, effective March 11, 1980; emergency rule at 4 Ill. Reg. 46, page 1300, effective November 1, 1980; amended at 5 Ill. Reg. 3454, effective March 19, 1981; amended at 5 Ill. Reg. 7225, effective July 1, 1981; amended at 5 Ill. Reg. 12846, effective October 30, 1981; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 2114, effective January 29, 1982; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 5505, effective April 16, 1982; codified at 6 Ill. Reg. 10935; emergency amendment at 6 Ill. Reg. 11084, effective August 31, 1982, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 677, effective December 30, 1982; amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 8831, effective July 15, 1983; emergency amendment at 8 Ill. Reg. 359, effective January 1, 1984, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 8 Ill. Reg. 4144, effective March 26, 1984; Sections 1540.280, 1540.290 and 1540.300 recodified to 2 Ill. Adm. Code 2375 at 8 Ill. Reg. 15902; amended at 9 Ill. Reg. 12375, effective July 30, 1985; emergency amendment at 9 Ill. Reg. 19752, effective December 5, 1985, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 8889, effective May 14, 1986; amended at 11 Ill. Reg. 11155, effective June 15, 1987; amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 10498, effective June 19, 1990; amended at 15 Ill. Reg. 7379, effective April 26, 1991; amended at 16 Ill. Reg. 14407, effective September 4, 1992; amended at 20 Ill. Reg. 8033, effective June 15, 1996; emergency amendment at 21 Ill. Reg. 476, effective January 1, 1997, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 4992, effective April 1, 1997; emergency amendment at 21 Ill. Reg. 13187, effective September 15, 1997, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 22 Ill. Reg. 967, effective December 22, 1997; amended at 22 Ill. Reg. 15363, effective August 10, 1998; amended at 23 Ill. Reg. 3824, effective March 9, 1999; amended at 23 Ill. Reg. 11313, effective September 1, 1999; amended at 24 Ill. Reg. 6975, effective April 20, 2000; amended at 24 Ill. Reg. 18090, effective December 1, 2000; amended at 25 Ill. Reg. 5632, effective April 4, 2001; emergency amendment at 26 Ill. Reg. 11133, effective June 28, 2002, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 26 Ill. Reg. 16575, effective October 22, 2002; emergency amendment at 28 Ill. Reg. 8775, effective July 1, 2004, for a maximum of 150 days; amended at 28 Ill. Reg. 15628, effective November 18, 2004; amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 15554, effective October 1, 2005; amended at 30 Ill. Reg. 12303, effective July 1, 2006; amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 211, effective December 21, 2006.