Source: http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=74757
Timestamp: 2020-07-08 05:31:19
Document Index: 669917910

Matched Legal Cases: ['§153', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§3', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1', '§1']

RS 11:153
§153. Purchase of service credit for military service
C.(1)(a) Any member shall be entitled to purchase credit for up to four years of either regular or nonregular military service, or a combination of both not exceeding four years total, provided an application is filed with the appropriate retirement system, together with proof of the inclusive dates of military service performed.
D.(1) No member shall be entitled to purchase credit for military service if he has previously received credit for such service in any other public retirement system domiciled in this state if he is receiving any form of retirement benefits from that system.
E.(1)(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Paragraph, military service shall not be used for purposes of acquiring eligibility for disability or survivor's benefits and shall only be used for purposes of acquiring eligibility for normal retirement benefits.
F. Military service credit shall not be used as the highest thirty-six or sixty successive months, or as the highest thirty-six or sixty joined months of employment where interruption of service occurred, in computing the average compensation for retirement benefit computation.
J.(1) All purchases of credit for regular military service and service in the state national guard or reserve forces of the United States that were transacted on or before June 30, 1999, shall be governed by the provisions of R.S. 11:153 as that law was in force and effect on the date of the purchase.
L. Creditable service for service in the uniformed services gained through the application of USERRA shall not be considered a purchase of military service credit for purposes of this Section.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 769, §1; Acts 1985, No. 858, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 1991, No. 205, §1; Acts 1991, No. 607, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 42:697.11 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 255, §1; Acts 1995, No. 131, §1; Acts 1997, No. 348, §1, eff. June 20, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 419, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2001, No. 1035, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1039, §1; Acts 2003, No. 1183, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2018, No. 225, §1, eff. May 15, 2018.