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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="22-303" title_number="22" title_name="Employees' and Teachers' Retirement Systems" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Service Credit">
  <text>Eligibility service for a member of the Employees’ Retirement System or the Teachers’ Retirement System consists of service credit:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>for employment as a member;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>transferred from a retirement or pension system under Title 37 of this article or Title 31, Subtitle 1 of this article;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>for military service, as provided in Title 38 of this article;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>purchased under this subtitle; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>that equals, for a member who has transferred between the Employees’ Retirement System and the Teachers’ Retirement System, the member’s eligibility service recognized under the previous system through the date before the member became a member of the current system.</text>
  </level>
</section>
