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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="27-401" title_number="27" title_name="Judges' Retirement System" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to an individual who is a member of the Judges’ Retirement System on or before June 30, 2012.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A member or former member is entitled to a retirement allowance:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on termination of service, if the member is at least 60 years old;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on the recommendation of the medical board, if the member or former member resigns because of disability;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>when retired by order of the Supreme Court of Maryland; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>at the age of 60 years, if the former member’s termination of service occurred earlier.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to an individual who becomes a member of the Judges’ Retirement System on or after July 1, 2012.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A member or former member is entitled to a retirement allowance:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on termination of service, if the member is at least 60 years old and has at least 5 years of eligibility service;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on the recommendation of the medical board, if the member or former member resigns because of disability;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>when retired by order of the Supreme Court of Maryland, if the member has at least 5 years of eligibility service;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>at the mandatory retirement age required by Article IV, § 3 of the Maryland Constitution with less than 5 years of eligibility service, if the member has eligibility service equal to the mandatory retirement age required by Article IV, § 3 of the Maryland Constitution minus the member’s age when the member first becomes a member; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>at the age of 60 years, if the former member’s termination of service occurred earlier and the former member had at least 5 years of eligibility service when the former member terminated service.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
