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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65889</law_id><section_number>51.1-1301</section_number><catch_line>Benefit restoration plan for employees; administration by the Board</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="51.1">Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="13">Benefit Restoration Plan</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall establish and administer a benefit restoration plan for <span class="dictionary">members</span>. Such plan shall meet the requirements to be treated as a plan established under &#xA7; 415(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Virginia <span class="dictionary">Retirement System</span> Director shall be the chief administrative officer of the plan. The <span class="dictionary">Retirement System</span> is hereby authorized to perform related services including, but not limited to, providing consolidated billing, individual and collective record keeping and accountings, and asset control and safekeeping. <a id="paragraph-239447" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/51.1-1301/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The benefit restoration plan shall exist to provide nontaxable benefits to <span class="dictionary">members</span> whose annual benefit is reduced pursuant to subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Limits on creditable compensation; maximum benefits; mandatory payment of allowance" href="/51.1-168/">51.1-168</a>. The benefit restoration plan shall be funded from those contributions required under Article 7 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Member contributions" href="/51.1-144/">51.1-144</a> et seq.) of Chapter 1 of this title. If it deems it advisable, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may create a trust or other special fund for segregation of the funds or <span class="dictionary">assets</span> relating to a benefit restoration plan established herein. <a id="paragraph-239448" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/51.1-1301/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2001, cc. 681, 692.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
