Youth corrections officer. The director and assistant directors of the department of juvenile corrections and the superintendent of the state educational system for committed youth, only if hired after July 1, 1992. For a city or town, a city or town detention officer. Who is a full-time paid person employed by a participating employer in a designated position. Whose customary employment is for more than twenty hours each week and for more than six months in a calendar year.
Salary includes amounts that are subject to deferred compensation or tax shelter agreements.
Salary does not include any remuneration or reimbursement other than as prescribed by this paragraph. Any absence that is authorized by an employer, including any periods during which the employee is on an employer sponsored long-term disability program, is considered as service if the employee returns or is deemed by the employer to have returned to a designated position within the period of the authorized absence. Files a written application for normal retirement with the plan in the form prescribed by the plan. Ceases to be an employee before the date of retirement. Is sixty-two years or older and has ten or more years of service.