(A) Except for court or administratively ordered current child support, or owed child support, or to-be-owed child support, and except as provided in KRS 65.156, KRS 95.530(6), and divisions (B), (C) and (D) of this section, the Police Officers’ and Firefighters’ Pension Fund established under KRS 95.520 shall be held and distributed for the purpose of paying pensions and benefits and for no other purpose.
(Ord. 1161, passed - -1969)
(B) From July 15, l982, and thereafter, the Board of Trustees of the Pension Fund shall, upon the request of a member, refund a member’s contributions, including contributions picked up by the employer pursuant to KRS 65.155, upon that member’s withdrawal from service prior to qualifying for pension. The member shall be entitled to receive a refund of the amount of contributions made by the member, including contributions picked up by the employer pursuant to KRS 65.155, after the date of establishment, without interest.
(C) Any member receiving a refund of contributions shall thereby ipso facto forfeit, waive and relinquish all accrued rights and benefits in the system, including all credited and creditable service. The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, regardless of cause, withhold payment of a refund for a period not to exceed six months after receipt of an application from a member.
(D) Any member who has received a refund shall be considered a new member upon subsequent re- employment if that person qualifies for membership under the provisions hereof. After the completion of at least five years of continuous membership service following his or her latest re-employment, the member shall have the right to make a repayment to the system of the amount or amounts previously received as refund, including 6% interest from the dates of refund to the date of repayment. The repayments shall not be picked up by the employer pursuant to KRS 65.155. Upon the restoration of the refunds, as herein provided, the member shall have reinstated to his or her account all credited service represented by the refunds of which repayment has been made. Repayment of refunds by which any member shall include all refunds received by a member prior to the date of his or her last withdrawal from service and shall be made in a single sum.
(KRS 95.620) (1989 Code, § 35.56)