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[CITE: 31USC9502]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                       SUBTITLE VI--MISCELLANEOUS
 
             CHAPTER 95--GOVERNMENT PENSION PLAN PROTECTION
 
Sec. 9502. Definitions

    In this chapter--
        (1) ``Government pension plan''--
            (A) means a pension, annuity, retirement, or similar plan 
        (except a plan covered under the Employee Retirement Income 
        Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) or a plan or 
        program financed by contributions required under chapter 21 or 
        22 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 3101 et seq., 
        3201 et seq.)) established or maintained by an agency, for any 
        of its officers or employees, regardless of the number of 
        participants covered by the plan; and
            (B) includes--
                (i) the Civil Service Retirement System.
                (ii) the Coast Guard Retirement System.
                (iii) the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health 
            Service Retirement System.
                (iv) the Farm Credit District Retirement Plans.
                (v) the Federal Home Loan Bank Board Retirement Systems.
                (vi) the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Plan.
                (vii) the Federal Reserve Employees Retirement Plans.
                (viii) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability 
            System.
                (ix) judicial plans.
                (x) the Military Retirement System.
                (xi) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
            Retirement System.
                (xii) nonappropriated fund plans.
                (xiii) the Tennessee Valley Authority Retirement System.

        (2) ``plan year'' means the calendar, policy, or fiscal year 
    chosen by the Government pension plan on which the records of the 
    plan are kept.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1050; Pub. L. 99-514, Sec. 2, 
Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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9502(1)..............................  31:68c.                         Sept. 12
, 1950, ch. 946, 64 Stat. 832,
                                                                        Secs.  
123, 124; added Nov. 4, 1978,
                                                                        Pub. L.
 95-595, Sec.  1, 92 Stat. 2542.
9502(2)..............................  31:68d.
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    In clause (1), before subclause (A), the word ``Federal'' is omitted 
as unnecessary. In subclause (A), the words ``whether or not such plan 
is an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) 
of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [29 U.S.C. 
1002(2)]'' are omitted as surplus. The words ``an agency'' are 
substituted for ``Government of the United States, or any agency or 
instrumentality thereof'' because of section 101 of the revised title. 
In subclause (B), before subclause (i), the words ``but is not limited 
to'' are omitted as surplus. The text of 31:68c(b)(words before colon) 
is omitted as unnecessary because of the restatement.
    In clause (2), 31:68d(1st sentence) is omitted as executed. The 
definition in 31:68d(last sentence) is made applicable to the chapter 
for clarity because the defined term is used in 9503(a)(1)(B) of the 
revised title.

                       References in Text

    The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, referred to in 
par. (1)(A), is Pub. L. 93-406, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 829, as amended, 
which is classified principally to chapter 18 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of 
Title 29, Labor. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, 
see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of Title 29 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1986--Par. (1)(A). Pub. L. 99-514 substituted ``Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986'' for ``Internal Revenue Code of 1954''.
