TITLE 59

PUBLIC OFFICERS IN GENERAL

CHAPTER 13

PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM

59-1341.  Conditions of eligibility for service retirement. A vested member is eligible for service retirement as indicated below, based upon his service retirement ratio. A member’s service retirement ratio shall, at retirement, be equal to the ratio of (1) to (2) as follows:

(1)  The number of years of credited service for which the member was classified as a police officer or firefighter:

(2)  The member’s total number of years of credited service.

For service retirement ratio:	Service retirement eligibility age is:
0.000 to 0.100	65
0.101 to 0.300	64
0.301 to 0.500	63
0.501 to 0.700	62
0.701 to 0.900	61
0.901 to 1.000	60

A person who was an active member on June 30, 1985 shall be deemed to have a service retirement ratio of 1.000 either if the member was a police officer or firefighter on that date and continuously thereafter to retirement or if at the time of retirement the majority of the member’s credited service has been that of a police officer or firefighter.

History:

[(59-1341) 1963, ch. 349, Art. 4, sec. 1, p. 988; am. 1965, ch. 165, sec. 1, p. 324; am. 1967, ch. 398, sec. 4, p. 1184; am. 1969, ch. 283, sec. 3, p. 856; am. 1971, ch. 49, sec. 5, p. 105; am. 1979, ch. 158, sec. 3, p. 484; am. 1985, ch. 168, sec. 1, p. 445; am. 1987, ch. 164, sec. 2, p. 323; am. and redesig. 1990, ch. 231, sec. 29, p. 632; am. 1990, ch. 249, sec. 2, p. 706; am. 1999, ch. 199, sec. 2, p. 525.]