Sec. 45a-54. (Formerly Sec. 45-29w). Credit for military service and General Assembly service.
Sec. 45a-54. (Formerly Sec. 45-29w). Credit for military service and General
Assembly service. (a) Any judge or employee who is not yet receiving a retirement
allowance may apply to the Retirement Commission for credit for service as a member
of the General Assembly and for military service, consisting of war service, as defined
in section 27-103 and subdivision (29) of section 5-196, and national emergency service
as defined by law, provided credit for such military and General Assembly service shall
not exceed three years in the aggregate. Any such application for credit for service as
a member of the General Assembly must be filed within one year of the date upon which
the judge or employee first becomes a member or within one year of October 1, 1986,
whichever is later. Any such application for credit for military service must be filed
within one year of the date upon which the judge or employee first becomes a member
or within one year of October 1, 1994, whichever is later.
(b) Upon receiving an application, the Retirement Commission shall grant credit
for General Assembly and military service, provided: (1) The member who has performed such service has not received and will not receive a pension from any source
other than the probate retirement system as a result of such service; (2) the member
makes retirement contributions in an amount determined by the Retirement Commission
to be sufficient to pay both the retirement contribution of the member as an employee
or judge and the current service cost to the Probate Court Administration Fund for
financing the pension credit for such period or periods; and (3) such contributions are
paid during the twelve months following the member's application in the manner and
subject to the requirements and penalties provided by section 45a-44 for employee members or section 45a-45 for judges.
(c) For an employee member, the commission shall determine the amount of the
contribution required, for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, based
on his annual rate of pay at the date of application. For a judge member, the commission
shall determine said amount based on the average of the annual actual net income for
the judge of his court, as determined from the income reports filed under section 45a-92, for the three calendar years prior to the date of application, except that if the judge
applying for such credit has taken office in a probate district which has not been in
existence for three years, the Probate Court Administrator initially shall estimate said
annual net income; thereafter, such judge shall make or receive an adjustment in contributions, during the fourth calendar year of his service as a judge of probate, such that
his retirement contributions for his purchased service credit shall be computed on the
basis of the average of his annual actual net income for the first three calendar years of
his service as a judge of probate.
(P.A. 86-242, S. 2, 3; P.A. 93-279, S. 17; P.A. 96-168, S. 26, 34.)
History: Sec. 45-29w transferred to Sec. 45a-54 in 1991; P.A. 93-279 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision requiring
application for credit for military service to be filed within one year of date when judge or employee first becomes a
member or within one year of October 1, 1994, whichever is later; P.A. 96-168 amended Subsec. (a) to make technical
change which changed the reference to "subsection (bb)" to "subdivision (29)", effective July 1, 1996.