{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1102b","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 20-1102B","heading":"Benefits for surviving spouse of certain Justices or","body":"judges.\n\nA. Any retired Justice or judge who, on the effective date of\n\nthis act, is receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Judicial\n\nRetirement System, may bring his spouse under the survivor benefit\n\nprovisions of the Judicial Retirement Act by filing a written\n\nstatement with the director of the System within thirty (30) days\n\nfrom the effective date of this act declaring himself willing to\n\naccept a ten percent (10%) reduction of the retirement benefits to\n\nwhich he is entitled.\n\nB. Any retired Justice or judge who was a member of the\n\nOklahoma Judicial Retirement System on January 14, 1969, and who\n\ndied while in active service before June 22, 1974, or died in\n\nretirement status between January 14, 1969, and the effective date\n\nof this act shall be considered to have brought his spouse under the\n\nsurvivor benefit provisions of the Oklahoma Judicial Retirement\n\nSystem. The surviving spouse of such Justice or judge, when\n\notherwise eligible, shall be entitled, from and after the effective\n\ndate of this act, to survivor benefits upon payment to the Oklahoma\n\nJudicial Retirement System of that amount of additional\n\ncontributions which the deceased Justice or judge would have been\n\nrequired to make had the law permitted him to elect on January 13,\n\n1969, to bring his spouse under the survivor benefit provisions of\n\nthe Judicial Retirement System. If the contributions made to the\n\nSystem by such deceased Justice or judge while alive were refunded\n\nto his surviving spouse upon his death, the surviving spouse must\n\nalso repay the amount thereof to the System when applying for\n\nbenefits under the provisions hereof.","path":["OK Code","Title 20"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os20.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"d949da88bd59dc3fb9cdba340addc647aba1771ad72fe9eaf75262a47f91a510","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1102a","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1102c"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}