Sec. 5-175a. Operators of vending stands in public buildings. Credit for prior years of service.
Sec. 5-175a. Operators of vending stands in public buildings. Credit for prior
years of service. (a) Vending stand operators, operating stands under permits held by
the State Board of Education and Services for the Blind pursuant to section 10-303,
shall be members of the state employees retirement system, part A, exclusive of the
Social Security option and benefits in the state employees' retirement system dependent
thereon. Each such person shall annually, on or before June thirtieth, pay five per cent
of his adjusted gross income, arising out of the operation of such stand, as determined
under the Internal Revenue Code, during the calendar year preceding to the Board of
Education and Services for the Blind which shall, as the state administering agency for
such persons, certify such payment and pay it over to the State Retirement Commission,
provided membership of such persons in said system shall be exclusive of disability
retirement upon the grounds of defects of vision.
(b) Any member of the state employees retirement system who operated vending
stands under permits held by the State Board of Education and Services for the Blind
pursuant to section 10-303, prior to October 1, 1971, may obtain credit for such period
or periods of service for retirement purposes; provided he has been in the active full-time employment of the state continuously for twelve months next preceding his written
request to the Retirement Commission for such credit, and by making retirement contributions of five per cent of his adjusted gross income arising out of the operation of such
stands for each of such years with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per year
from the time of such operation to the date of payment, all as certified by the State Board
of Education and Services for the Blind. Such payments may be made in twelve equal
monthly installments but such service credit shall not be granted unless payment of
installments is completed.
(1971, P.A. 847, S. 1, 2; 1972, P.A. 71, S. 4; 215.)
History: 1972 acts specified that 5% of gross income arising out of the operation of the stand be paid to retirement
system, thereby excluding outside income and clarified provisions of Subsec. (b) re previous years of operation by specifying
years prior to October 1, 1971.