(a) A participant's credited service is the total years and months of County service the participant rendered under the Retirement Savings Plan, the optional retirement plan, the integrated plan, and the guaranteed retirement income plan. A participant must receive credited service for any period when the participant was a part-time employee contributing to an employer-supported savings program provided by a participating agency. An employee hired before July 1, 2009 must receive 1 year of credited service for each year of County service. Each year of County service ends on the anniversary of the date the participant started working for the County. A participant must also receive one month of credited service for each month during which the participant worked at least one hour for the County. An employee hired on or after July 1, 2009 must receive one year of credited service for each year of participation in a County retirement plan and one month of credited service for each month during which the employee participated in a County retirement plan. A person who transferred to the Retirement Savings Plan under Section 115(a)(3) or (4) must receive credit for County service for creditable State service earned as a State employee of the County Department of Social Services. A person who does not transfer to the Retirement Savings Plan under Section 115(a)(3) or (4) must not receive credit for County service for this State service.
(b) County service includes any period of compulsory or voluntary service in the armed forces of the United States, a state militia, or other military service covered under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, if the participant:
(1) was a member of the Retirement Savings Plan, the optional retirement plan, the guaranteed retirement income plan, or the integrated plan when the military service began;
(2) applied for reemployment or returned to County service within:
(A) 1 year after discharge from the military service, and the participant does not take other employment;
(B) 2 years after completing military service if the member was hospitalized or convalescing from an illness or injury incurred or aggravated during military service, and the participant does not take other employment; or
(C) more than 2 years if circumstances beyond the control of the participant make it impossible or unreasonable for the participant to apply for reemployment within 2 years, and the participant does not take other employment; and
(3) the total period of military service did not exceed 5 years, not including any period of military service described under Section 4312(c)(1) - (4) of Title 38, United States Code.
(c) An employee who did not become a member of the retirement savings plan solely because the employee was called to active duty before completing 180 days of County employment must be eligible to receive contributions under Sections 33-115 and 33-116 if the employee becomes a participant in the retirement savings plan upon re-employment. (1994 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 2; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 1; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 30, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 1; 2009 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1; 2014 L.M.C., ch. 17, § 1.)