16 CSR 10-6.010
Employment
PURPOSE: This rule provides for membership based on employment
for persons not qualified for or entitled to membership in the
public school retirement system, as authorized by sections 169.600
and 169.650, RSMo, and for rights to retain membership under
certain specified conditions.
(1) Effective July 1, 2004, a person shall be considered to be
regularly employed if he or she is employed in a position that
normally requires continuous services for at least twenty (20)
hours per week for the school term and normally requires
at least six hundred (600) hours during the school term. A
person who meets the requirements above, but who does not
complete six hundred (600) hours of employment prior to
termination of employment shall be considered to be regularly
employed.
(2) The employer of any person eligible for membership in the
retirement system under the provisions of section 169.600.15,
RSMo, shall furnish to the board of trustees a certified copy
of a resolution adopted by the governing body responsible
for the administration of the junior college district before
any such person shall be considered eligible for membership.
This resolution shall request the board of trustees to grant
membership to the eligible employees of the district who are
now or may become eligible for membership and shall indicate
that the governing body will assume full responsibility for
the withholding of contributions from the salaries paid to
such persons and for the remittance of contributions to the
retirement system (also see 16 CSR 10-3.010).
AUTHORITY: section 169.610, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Dec.
19, 1975, effective Jan. 1, 1976. Emergency amendment filed July 3,
1984, effective July 13, 1984, expired Nov. 10, 1984. Amended: Filed
Jan. 17, 1986, effective June 12, 1986. Amended: Filed Aug. 4, 1994,
effective Feb. 26, 1995. Amended: Filed Aug. 29, 2003, effective Feb.
29, 2004. Amended: Filed Sept. 1, 2005, effective Feb. 28, 2006.
Amended: Filed Feb. 2, 2026, effective Aug. 30, 2026.
*Original authority: 169.610, RSMo 1965, amended 1977, 2005.