§ 13-53. Prior fire service.

Unless otherwise prohibited by law, and except as provided for in section 13-26, the years or fractional parts of years that a member previously served as a full-time firefighter with the city during a period of previous employment and for which period accumulated contributions were withdrawn from the fund, or the years or fractional parts of years that a member served as a full-time firefighter for any other municipal, county, state or special district fire department in the state shall be added to his years of credited service provided that:

(1)

The member contributes to the fund an actuarially determined amount so that the crediting of the purchased service does not result in any cost to the fund plus payment of costs for all professional services rendered to the board in connection with the purchase of years of credited service.

(2)

Multiple requests to purchase credited service pursuant to this section may be made at any time prior to retirement.

(3)

Payment by the member of the required amount shall be made within twelve (12) months of his request for credit, but not later than the retirement date, and shall be made in one (1) lump sum payment upon receipt of which credited service shall be given.

(4)

The maximum credit under this section for service other than with the city shall be five (5) years of credited service and shall count for all purposes, except vesting and eligibility for not-in-line of duty disability benefits. There shall be no maximum purchase of credit for prior service with the city and such credit shall count for all purposes, including vesting.

(5)

In no event, however, may credited service be purchased pursuant to this section for prior service with any other municipal, county or special district fire department, if such prior service forms or will form the basis of a retirement benefit or pension from another retirement system or plan as set forth in section 13.40, subsection (l)(2).

(Ord. No. O-10-19, § 1, 7-26-10; Ord. No. O-17-29 , § 7, 6-12-17)