1. (a) All applications for retirement, whether for service or for disability, must be filed on or before the date specified by the member as the effective date of the member's retirement.
2. (b) The date specified as the effective date for retirement must be the last day of a calendar month and may not precede the first anniversary of the earlier of the effective date of the person's membership in the retirement system or the effective date of participation of the subdivision from which the member had most recently earned credited service.
3. (c) The date specified as the effective date of retirement may not be a date preceding the termination of the member's employment with all participating subdivisions except as permitted by §844.003(d) of the Act.
4. (d) Although the system will recognize a retirement application filed on or before the effective retirement date designated on the application as having been timely filed with respect to that designated retirement date, this section shall not be construed to require a subdivision to process, by the end of the month, a retirement application submitted to it at any time during the month. A subdivision may establish reasonable administrative rules and procedures, including submission schedules, for the monthly processing of retirement applications for filing with the system.

Source Note:The provisions of this §101.6 adopted to be effective July 27, 1976, 1 TexReg 1929; amended to be effective May 1, 1993, 18 TexReg 2415; amended to be effective January 10, 1996, 21 TexReg 134; amended to be effective December 31, 1999, 24 TexReg 9300.