MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           2711

any or all such contributions, in which case upon
retirement any service retirement allowance, any ordinary
disability retirement allowance or any allowance due to
nonreappointment or nonreelection to any office payable
to such official, shall be reduced by the actuarial
equivalent of those contributions which he had not paid,
with interest to date of retirement.

Provided further that any desk officer or employee
of either house of the General Assembly, who was
receiving an annual salary as compensation for such
employment as of February 1, 1961, and who previously
served as a desk officer or employee of either house of
the General Assembly and received per diem compensation
for such previous service, shall be entitled to prior
service credit equal to four years for any four—year term
of a General Assembly during which such previous service
was rendered.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
article, any member of the retirement system who had
previously served as an elected or appointed official of
the state or a participating municipality, shall be
entitled to receive credit for the period of such
creditable service upon making in a single payment,
within such period of time as may be determined by the
board of trustees, the contributions, with interest,
which the board deems appropriate. For the purpose of
this subsection, creditable service includes service
rendered prior to the date of establishment of the
retirement system, AND [[THE TERM]] A "YEAR OF SERVICE"
SHALL MEAN A YEAR OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IF THE PORTION
OF THE YEAR SERVED IS AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF
DAYS OF THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR
THAT YEAR IN WHICH SERVICE CREDIT IS REQUESTED.

At the time of retirement as a judge in one of the
listed courts, the member is eligible to receive benefits
from both the retirement system and the Judges' Pension
System. Upon retirement, no salaried State employee,
judge, legislator, or executive official may receive
benefits under more than one pension system for the same
period of service.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

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