Ch. 567

LAWS OF MARYLAND

service under certain conditions; and generally relating to
creditable service in the State Police Retirement System.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88B - State Police

Section 52

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 88B - State Police

52.

(a)  Under such rules and regulations as the board of
trustees shall adopt, each member who was an employee at any time
during the year immediately preceding the date of establishment
shall receive credit for all service as an employee rendered by
him prior to the date of establishment for which he received
credit in the State Police pension fund.

(b)  The board of trustees shall issue prior service
certificates certifying to each member the length of service
rendered prior to the date of the establishment of the Retirement
System with which he is credited. So long as membership
continues a prior service certificate shall be final and
conclusive for retirement purposes as to such service, provided,
however, that any member may, within one year from the date of
issuance or modification of such certificate, request the board
of trustees to modify or correct his prior service certificate.

When membership ceases such prior service certificate shall
become void. Should the employee again become a member, such
employee shall enter the system as an employee not entitled to
prior service credit.

(c)  Creditable service at retirement on which the
retirement allowance of a member shall be based shall consist of
the membership service rendered by him since he last became a
member, and also, if he has a prior service certificate which is
in full force and effect, the period of the service certified on
his prior service certificate.

(d)  Upon termination from the system other than by
retirement, each member shall forfeit any accumulated sick leave.
Upon verification to the board of trustees, a member at the time
of retirement shall receive membership service for unused sick
leave in accordance with the formula that 22 days of unused sick
leave are equal to one month of membership service. An additional

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