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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 508

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143.

(1)  Except as. hereinafter provided, all service with a
public school rendered by a teacher on or after January 1,
1980, and before his retirement shall be eligibility service
for the purposes of this pension system. With respect to
any. [calendar] FISCAL year in which a teacher completes at
least 700 hours of service, there shall be included in his
eligibility service a full year of eligibility service.
Eligibility service may not be recognized for any fiscal
year in which the teacher completes less than 700 hours of
service. Any [calendar] FISCAL year after the year in which
a teacher first becomes employed during which he does not
complete more than 350 hours of service shall be considered
a break in service. Any service rendered before a break in
service that occurs before the year in which a teacher
retires, dies, or otherwise terminates his employment or
becomes 62 years old may not be recognized as eligibility
service, until the teacher completes 1 year of eligibility
service following the break in service. However, if a
teacher who has not completed the eligibility requirements
for a vested retirement allowance incurs a break in service
in which the number of consecutive 1-year breaks in service
equals or exceeds the aggregate number of years of
eligibility service rendered before the break in service,
except for any years of eligibility service disregarded
because of any prior break in service, the service rendered
before the break in service may not be included in his
eligibility service. If a teacher terminates his employment
and is reemployed after incurring a break in service, his
service before the break in service may not be included in
his eligibility service, except as provided in this section.

144.

(2)  In the case of a part-time teacher, creditable
service with respect to any [calendar] FISCAL year of
eligibility service shall be determined under rules
established by the board of trustees, that apply to all
teachers similarly situated, but creditable service
recognized for that year may not be less than the fraction
of a year, the numerator of which is the number of hours of
service as a teacher that he has completed during that year
and the denominator of which is the normal number of hours
of service completed in a year by a full-time teacher.

(9) In the year of his retirement, a member may
receive credit of up to 10 years [towards eligibility] for
benefits provided under § 145 of this subtitle; if the
member files claim for it with the board of trustees and
pays into this pension system an amount equal to the
reserves required to fund the additional allowance, which
may be paid on an installment basis by contributing not