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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="26-204" title_number="26" title_name="Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Membership">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a member’s contribution rate is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>4% of the member’s earnable compensation received before July 1, 2011;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>6% of the member’s earnable compensation received from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, both inclusive; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>7% of the member’s earnable compensation received on or after July 1, 2012.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, after 32 years and 6 months of service as a member, a member does not make any further contributions.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to a member who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>transferred to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System from the Employees’ Retirement System on or after January 1, 2001, and on or before December 31, 2004; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>transferred to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System from the Employees’ Retirement System on or before December 31, 2000; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>did not elect to participate in the Law Enforcement Officers’ Modified Pension Benefit on or before December 31, 2000, as provided in § 26–211 of this subtitle.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The contribution rate for a member who has transferred from the Employees’ Retirement System is the rate set under:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Section 22–214(a) of this article, for a member who had elected Selection A (Additional member contributions) under § 22–219 of this article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Section 22–214(b) of this article, for a member who had elected Selection B (Limited cost–of–living adjustment) under § 22–220 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
