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who entered directly into the armed forces of the United States be-
fore the date of establishment by reason of induction under any appli-
cable Selective Service Act, by reason of the activation of a reserve
unit of which he may be a member or as the result of his initial enlist-
ment therein and who returns to service within one year after having
been honorably discharged from the armed forces and who elects to
become a member within thirty days thereafter, may be deemed by
the board of trustees to be a member at establishment and to be en-
titled to credit for prior service, and for service in the armed forces
after the date of establishment, under the same conditions as credit
for membership service is allowed members entering into the armed
forces after the date of establishment.

Section 20-18. Normal retirement age; retirement for service; ex-
tension of service after retirement age.

The normal service retirement age shall be the age of sixty for a
member in Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3, and the age of fifty-five for a
member in Group 4. A member may retire before attaining the nor-
mal service retirement age provided that, if he is in Group 1, Group 2
or Group 3, he has either completed thirty or more years of creditable
service [in Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3,] or attained age fifty-five
and completed twenty or more years of creditable service and, if he is
in Group 4, has completed twenty-seven and one-half or more years of
creditable service [for a member in Group 4].

Any member in the service who has attained the age of seventy,
if a member of Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3, or the age of sixty if a
member of Group 4, shall be retired forthwith, or on the first day of
the next calendar month; except, that any member who is an elected
or appointed official of the county may remain in service until the end
of the term of his or her office for which he or she was elected or ap-
pointed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on written request of the
employer to the board of trustees stating that such employee is men-
tally or physically capable of carrying out his or her duties, and re-
quest being approved by the board of trustees, the employee may be
continued in service for a period of one year, and for successive peri-
ods of one year each as the result of each such request and approval.

Section 20-19. Allowance for service retirement.

(a) Upon retirement for service after attaining age sixty, a
Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3 member who either was a member on
December 31, 1960, and elected to make the increased contributions in
accordance with section 20-55 of this Code or became a member on or
after January 1, 1961, shall receive a service retirement allowance
which shall consist of:

(1)  An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his ac-
cumulated contributions at the time of retirement;

(2)   A pension which, together with his annuity, shall provide a
total allowance equal to one-fifty-fifth [shall be equal to one one-hun-
dred-twentieth] of his average final compensation multiplied by the