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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="38-101" title_number="38" title_name="Additional Service Credit Provisions" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Military Service Credit">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Accumulated contributions”:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>when used in relation to a State system, has the meaning stated in § 20–101 of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>when used in relation to a local retirement or pension system, has the meaning most closely analogous to the meaning stated in § 20–101 of this article within the context of the local retirement or pension system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Member”:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>when used in relation to a State system, has the meaning stated in § 20–101 of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>when used in relation to a local retirement or pension system, has the meaning most closely analogous to the meaning stated in § 20–101 of this article within the context of the local retirement or pension system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Military service” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>induction into the armed forces of the United States for training and service under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 or a subsequent act of a similar nature;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>membership in a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on active duty or ordered or assigned to active duty; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on active duty for training or inactive duty for training that interrupts a member’s service;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>enlistment into the armed forces of the United States;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>membership in the Maryland National Guard; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>active duty with the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the Coast and Geodetic Survey.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Regular interest”:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>when used in relation to a State system, has the meaning stated in § 20–101 of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>when used in relation to a local retirement or pension system, has the meaning most closely analogous to the meaning stated in § 20–101 of this article within the context of the local retirement or pension system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“State or local retirement or pension system” means a retirement or pension system operated under the laws of the State or a political subdivision of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“State system” means a retirement or pension system that is included in the State Retirement and Pension System under § 21–102 of this article other than the Legislative Pension Plan except to the extent provided by the joint resolution submitted to the General Assembly by the General Assembly Compensation Commission under Article III, § 15 of the Maryland Constitution.</text>
  </level>
</section>
