New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 2 - PUBLIC FINANCE
Chapter 80 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT
Part 1200 - LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT
Section 2.80.1200.9 - ENROLLMENT

A. Participation in state legislator member coverage plan 1 is voluntary for legislators and lieutenant governors whose terms of office ended on or before December 21, 2002. Legislators and lieutenant governors may enroll in state legislator member coverage plan 1 by completing and filing a written application with PERA and paying member contributions on or before December 31, 2003 for one year or more of service credit earned by them after December 31, 1959. No survivor, estate, heir, personal representative or beneficiary of a deceased legislator or lieutenant governor may enroll in the plan. State legislative member coverage plan 1 closes to new members on December 31, 2003.

B. The board, the attorney general and certain retirees and members under state legislator member coverage plan 1 entered into stipulated partial final judgments in the matter of State v. Public Employees Retirement Board et al., First Judicial District Court, Case No. SF 87-2682(C). Unless otherwise provided by law, the association is bound by the provisions of the judgments so long as the judgments remain valid and effective.

C. Participation in state legislator member coverage plan 2 is voluntary for legislators and lieutenant governors whose terms of office ended after December 31, 2002. Legislators and lieutenant governors may enroll in state legislator member coverage plan 2 by completing and filing a written application with PERA on or before the later of one hundred eighty (180) days from July 1, 2003 or one hundred eighty (180) days after first taking office, and paying member contributions for one or more years of service credit earned after December 31, 2002. No survivor, estate, heir, personal representative or beneficiary of a deceased legislator or lieutenant governor may enroll in the plan.