(a)  The retirement board shall fix and determine, by appropriate rules and regulations, how much service in any year is equivalent to a year of service, but in computing that service or in computing the compensation it shall credit no period of more than a month’s duration during which a member was absent without pay nor shall more than one year of service be credited on account of all service in one calendar year.

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(b)  Notwithstanding any other section of law, no member of the retirement system shall be permitted to purchase service credit for any portion of a year for which he or she is already receiving service credit in this retirement system.

History of Section.
P.L. 1936, ch. 2334, § 8; G.L. 1938, ch. 18, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 36-9-25; P.L. 1959, ch. 105, § 1; P.L. 1969, ch. 29, § 1; P.L. 1980, ch. 174, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 169, § 2.