Georgia Code
Article 5 - Service Creditable Toward Retirement
§ 47-7-87. Credit for Prior Eligible Service; Requirements

History. Code 1981, § 47-7-87 , enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1507, § 1; Ga. L. 2014, p. 478, § 1/SB 235.
The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, rewrote subsection (a), which read: “As used in this Code section, the term ‘prior eligible service’ means service:
“(1) Rendered by a member of the fund as a firefighter or volunteer firefighter;
“(2) Rendered without interruption prior to the date such member became a member of the fund; and
“(3) For which the member would otherwise have been eligible for credit if such member had been a member of the fund at the time such service was rendered;
“provided, however, that such term shall not include a period of more than five years of such service.”; in subsection (b), in the introductory paragraph, deleted “person who is a” following “Any” and deleted “on July 1, 2000, and who is at least 53 years old on that date” following “member of the fund”; substituted “September 30, 2014” for “September 1, 2000” in paragraph (b)(1); and, in paragraph (b)(2), substituted “either: (A) Pays to the fund” for “pays to the fund”, added “; or” at the end, and added subparagraph (b)(2)(B).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2000, Code Section 47-7-86, as enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1507, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 47-7-87.

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