(a)  The retirement board fixes and determines, by appropriate rules and regulations, how much service in any year is equivalent to a year of service, but in computing the 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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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 45-21-14

(b)  Notwithstanding any other section of law, no member of the retirement system is 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. 1951, ch. 2784, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 45-21-14; P.L. 1997, ch. 169, § 3.