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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="5-209" title_number="5" title_name="Financing" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Aid to Education">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Montgomery County Board shall provide from the Montgomery County Public Schools Employees’ Pension System Trust the supplemental retirement allowance required under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Montgomery County Board, through the Montgomery County Public Schools Employees’ Pension System Trust, shall pay a supplemental retirement allowance to an employee of the county board who retires on or after July 1, 1999, as a member of the Teachers’ Pension System of the State of Maryland.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The supplemental retirement allowance shall equal the product of the member’s years of creditable service earned in the Montgomery County Public Schools Employees’ Pension System times the sum of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <level label="0">
          <text>08% of the retiree’s average final compensation that does not exceed the Social Security integration level; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="0">
          <text>15% of the retiree’s average final compensation that exceeds the Social Security integration level.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
