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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="25-401" title_number="25" title_name="Correctional Officers' Retirement System" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Service Retirement Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A member may retire with a normal service retirement allowance if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on or before the date of retirement, the member:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has at least 20 years of eligibility service;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>is a correctional case management specialist, supervisor, or manager on or before June 30, 2016;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>is vested in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>has a combined total of at least 20 years of eligibility service from:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System and the Employees’ Retirement System; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System and the Employees’ Pension System;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>is serving in a position specified in:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>§ 25–201(a)(8) or (9) of this title on or before June 30, 2017;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>§ 25–201(a)(10) or (11) of this title on or before June 30, 2018;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="C">
          <text>§ 25–201(a)(12) of this title on or before June 30, 2022;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="D">
          <text>§ 25–201(a)(13) of this title on or before June 30, 2024;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="E">
          <text>§ 25–201(a)(14) of this title on or before June 30, 2025; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="F">
          <text>§ 25–201(a)(15) of this title on or before June 30, 2026;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>is vested in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>has a combined total of at least 20 years of eligibility service from:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System and the Employees’ Retirement System; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System and the Employees’ Pension System; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>is at least 55 years old and has:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>at least 5 years of eligibility service credit, if the member is a member on or before June 30, 2011; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>at least 10 years of eligibility service credit, if the member becomes a member on or after July 1, 2011; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the member completes and submits a written application to the Board of Trustees stating the date when the member desires to retire.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, on retirement under this section, a member is entitled to receive a normal service retirement allowance that equals one fifty–fifth of the member’s average final compensation multiplied by the number of years of creditable service.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On retirement under this section, if a member’s annuity is greater than the member’s normal service retirement allowance calculated under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the member’s normal service retirement allowance shall equal the member’s annuity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a correctional case management specialist, supervisor, or manager who has a combined total of 20 years of eligibility service as provided in subsection (a)(1)(ii) of this section; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a member serving in a position specified in § 25–201(a)(8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), or (15) of this title who has a combined total of 20 years of eligibility service as provided in subsection (a)(1)(iii) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A member is entitled to receive a normal service retirement allowance that equals an allowance based on the creditable service the member has in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
