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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="26-205" title_number="26" title_name="Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Membership">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, regular interest is payable on member contributions until retirement or withdrawal of accumulated contributions at the rate of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>4% a year, compounded annually, for a member who has transferred from the Employees’ Retirement System on or before December 31, 2004; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>5% a year, compounded annually, for each other member.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no further interest shall be paid on member contributions after membership ends if the former member is not eligible to receive a vested allowance under Title 29, Subtitle 3 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “active member” means a member who is not separated from employment with the State or a participating employer of one of the several systems.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection applies only to an individual who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is a former member of the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is not eligible to receive a vested allowance from the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System under Title 29, Subtitle 3 of this article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>has not withdrawn the individual’s member contributions from the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>is an active member of one of the several systems.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An individual described in paragraph (2) of this subsection shall receive regular interest at the rate described under subsection (a) of this section on the individual’s member contributions in a nonvested account in the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System while the individual is an active member of one of the several systems.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
