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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="25-401.1" title_number="25" title_name="Correctional Officers' Retirement System" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Service Retirement Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to a Baltimore City Jail employee who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on or before June 30, 1991, was employed by the City of Baltimore as an employee of the Baltimore City Jail for at least 5 years; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is a member of the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System on or after June 30, 2006.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A member described in subsection (a) of this section may retire with an early service retirement allowance if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the member completes and submits a written application to the Board of Trustees stating the date when the member desires to retire; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>on or before the date of retirement, the member has at least 10 years but less than 20 years of eligibility service.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On retirement under this section, a member is entitled to receive an early service retirement allowance that equals the normal service retirement allowance under § 25-401 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
