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§47-2-309.7.
§47-2-309.7.
A. For purposes of this section, "gunsmiths" means commissioned
officers of the Gunsmith/Ammunition Reloader Division of the
Department of Public Safety employed on July 1, 1994, who, pursuant to
the provisions of this act, transfer membership from the Oklahoma
Public Employees Retirement System to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement
Retirement System.
B. Gunsmiths are hereby transferred from the Oklahoma Public Employees
Retirement System to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System
subject to the following:
1. Effective July 1, 1994, gunsmiths who are members of the Oklahoma
Public Employees Retirement System shall cease accruing benefits in
the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System and shall commence
accruing benefits in the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System;
2. Before January 1, 1995, the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement
System shall transfer to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement
System the actual amount contributed to the Oklahoma Public Employees
Retirement System from time to time by the gunsmiths while members of
the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System and the contributions
by the participating employer or employers on behalf of each gunsmith
to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System along with the
retirement records of said transferring gunsmiths;
3. Service credit accrued by a gunsmith while a member of the Oklahoma
Public Employees Retirement System shall be treated as credited
service for such transferring gunsmith in the Oklahoma Law Enforcement
Retirement System if the gunsmith is not receiving or eligible to
receive service credit or benefits from said service in any other
public retirement system and the member has not received service
credit for the same years of service pursuant to Sections 2-307.1,
2-307.3 and 2-307.4 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Provided
however, that the total of credited service for each transferring
employee shall not exceed the credited service said employee could
have accrued if his or her entire employment with an agency of the
State of Oklahoma had been as an employee of the Department of Public
Safety; and
4. All service credit with the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement
System which is ineligible for transfer to the Law Enforcement
Retirement System shall be canceled.
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