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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="23-225" title_number="23" title_name="Employees' and Teachers' Pension Systems" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Membership">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This Part IV of this subtitle (Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit) applies to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an individual who becomes a member of the Employees’ Pension System or the Teachers’ Pension System on or after July 1, 2011; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>except as provided in § 23–215.1 of this subtitle, a member of the Employees’ Pension System or Teachers’ Pension System who separated from employment on or before June 30, 2011, and subsequently becomes employed in a position eligible for membership in the Employees’ Pension System or the Teachers’ Pension System on or after July 1, 2011.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This Part IV does not apply to an employee of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a participating governmental unit that was participating in the Employees’ Pension System prior to July 1, 2011, and that has not elected to participate in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection under § 31–116.1 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a former participating governmental unit, other than Frederick County, that has withdrawn from the Employees’ Pension System.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
