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352C.051 Coverage by more than one retirement system or association.

Subdivision 1. Entitlement to annuity; legislative service. Any constitutional officer who has been a member of the legislature with service credited pursuant to chapter 3A shall be entitled when qualified to a retirement allowance from the legislator's retirement plan and the elective state officers plan if the total allowable service for which the person has credit in the two plans totals eight or more years, provided that no portion of the allowable service upon which the retirement allowance from one plan is based, is again used in the computation for benefits from the other plan. The retirement allowance from each plan shall be determined by the appropriate provisions of the law governing each plan, except that the requirement that a person must have at least eight years of allowable service in the respective plan shall not apply for purposes of this section, provided that the aggregate service in the two plans equals eight or more years. The augmentation of deferred annuities provided in sections 3A.02, subdivision 4, and 352C.033, shall apply to the retirement allowances accruing hereunder.

Subd. 2. Entitlement to annuity; public retirement service. Any constitutional officer who has been an employee covered by the Minnesota State Retirement System, or a member of the Public Employees Retirement Association including the Public Employees Retirement Association police and fire fund, or the Teachers Retirement Association, or the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund, or the State Patrol Retirement Association, or any other public employee retirement system in the state of Minnesota having a like provision, but excluding all other funds providing retirement benefits for police and firefighters, shall be entitled when qualified to an annuity from each fund if the person's total allowable service credit in all funds or in any two of these funds totals eight or more years, provided no portion of the allowable service upon which the retirement annuity from one fund is based is again used in the computation for benefits from another fund. The annuity from each fund shall be determined by the appropriate provisions of the law governing each fund, except that the requirement that a person must have at least eight years allowable service in the respective system or association shall not apply for the purposes of this section, provided that the aggregate service in two or more of these funds equals eight or more years. The augmentation of deferred annuities provided in section 352C.033 shall apply to the annuities accruing hereunder.

Subd. 3. Refund repayment. Any former constitutional officer who has received a refund as provided in section 352C.09, subdivision 2, who is a currently contributing member of a retirement fund specified or enumerated in subdivision 1 or 2, may repay the refund to the elective state officers retirement plan, with interest at an annual rate of 8.5 percent compounded annually.

HIST: 1978 c 796 s 19; 1981 c 37 s 2; 1981 c 298 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1992 c 598 art 1 s 8; 1993 c 307 art 1 s 32

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