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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 3-3 Dual memberships precluded.">
  <section prefix="§" num="3-3" heading="Dual memberships precluded.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a member of the Retirement Savings Plan may not, while a member of the Retirement Savings Plan, make contributions to, receive benefits from, or accrue service credit under any other City retirement plan.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Exceptions.">Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to participation by a hybrid member of the Retirement Savings Plan as a Class D member of the Employees’ Retirement System.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Membership in Plan after participation in other City plan.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Scope of subsection.">This subsection applies to a person who:<para num="(i)">as a member of any other City retirement plan, becomes eligible for a retirement benefit from that other plan; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">either:<para num="(A)">after terminating employment or exiting elected office and having begun to receive that benefit, becomes an employee on or after July 1, 2014;</para>
          <para num="(B)">after terminating active membership with the other City retirement plan on or after July 1, 2014, immediately becomes an employee through a transfer of employment; or</para>
          <para num="(C)">after terminating employment or exiting elected office, becomes an employee on or after July 1, 2014, before beginning to receive that benefit.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Suspension or postponement.">
        <para num="(i)">For a person described in paragraph (1)(ii)(A) of this subsection, payment of his or her benefit from the other City retirement plan is suspended until the member later terminates employment.</para>
        <para num="(ii)">For a person described in paragraph (1)(ii)(B) or (c) of this subsection, receipt of her or his benefit from the other City retirement plan is postponed until the member later terminates employment.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Death benefits.">If a person described in paragraph (1) of this subsection dies before later terminating employment, the following death benefits must be paid:<para num="(i)">the death benefit provided for by &lt;cite data-path="|22A|§9-4"&gt;§ 9-4 {“Distributable events – Death”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt;; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a death benefit from the other City retirement plan in accordance with &lt;cite data-path="|22|§48|(e)|(1)|(ii)"&gt;Article 22, § 48(e)(1)(ii)&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-216</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
