The County or the applicable agency must pay any participant in the retirement savings plan or the guaranteed retirement income plan severance pay when the participant is separated from service by an affirmative administrative action other than dismissal for cause. An agency may adopt this severance pay plan under an adoption agreement approved by the Chief Administrative Officer. (1994 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 2; 2008 LMC, ch. 22, § 1.)