{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-45-18-50","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 45-18-50","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this article, the term:\n(1) Reserved.\n(2) “Council” means the Employee Benefit Plan Council established in Code Section 45-18-51.\n(3) “Employee” means a member of the General Assembly or a person who works full time for the state and receives his or her compensation in a direct payment from a department, agency, authority, or institution of state government; a county department of family and children services or a county department of health; the Federal-State Shipping Point Inspection Service; the Georgia Firefighters’ Pension Fund; a member of any local board of education; and public school teachers and public school employees as defined in Code Sections 20-2-880 and 20-2-910, exclusive of the members, employees, and officials of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.\n(4) “Full time” means the employment of a person who works at least 30 hours per week and whose employment is intended to be continuing employment. This would exclude any student, seasonal, intermittent, or part-time employment; provided, however, that public school teachers and public school employees as defined in Code Sections 20-2-880 and 20-2-910 shall be deemed to be employed full time for the purposes of this article. This would also exclude employment intended for only a very limited duration or in a sheltered employment program for the purpose of training or transitioning a person into the continued employment environment.","path":["TITLE 45 Public Officers and Employees","CHAPTER 18 Employees’ Insurance and Benefits Plans","Article 3 Employee Benefit Plan Council"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.45.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"76a011cb011ca672385ffb23b2f7301528d04082fc809102298e9138d2881eb1","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-45-18-38","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-45-18-51"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}