411.4 Service creditable.
1. Service for fewer than six months of a year is not creditable as service. Service of six months or more of a year is equivalent to one year of service, but in no case shall more than one year of service be creditable for all service in one calendar year, nor shall the system allow credit as service for any period of more than one month duration during which the member was absent without pay.
2. The system shall credit as service for a member of the system a previous period of service only under any of the following circumstances:
a. The member had withdrawn the member’s accumulated contributions, as defined in section 411.21, for the previous period of service.
b. The member returned to service after an absence of service of a period of less than four years from the last day of the prior period of service.
c. The member returned to service after an absence of service of a period of four or more years from the last day of the prior period of service and the member had sufficient service as of the last day of the prior period of service to have been entitled to a retirement allowance on that date under section 411.6, subsection 1, paragraph “b”.
[C35, §6326-f4; C39, §6326.06; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §411.4]
90 Acts, ch 1240, §51; 2000 Acts, ch 1077, §92, 110
Referred to in §411.1, 411.21
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 411 - RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR POLICE OFFICERS AND FIRE FIGHTERS
Section 411.1A - Purpose of chapter.
Section 411.2 - Participation in retirement system.
Section 411.3 - Membership — reemployment.
Section 411.4 - Service creditable.
Section 411.5 - Administration.
Section 411.6A - Optional retirement benefits.
Section 411.6B - Rollovers of members’ accounts.
Section 411.6C - Deferred retirement option plan.
Section 411.7 - Management of fund.
Section 411.8 - Method of financing.
Section 411.9 - Military service exceptions.
Section 411.10 - Purchase of service credit for military service.
Section 411.10A - Purchase of service credit for prior service.
Section 411.11 - Contributions by the city.
Section 411.12 - City obligations.
Section 411.13 - Exemption from execution and other process or assignment — exceptions.
Section 411.14 - Fraudulent practice — correction of errors.
Section 411.15 - Hospitalization and medical attention.
Section 411.16 - Hours of service.
Section 411.17 - Provisions not applicable.
Section 411.20 - State appropriation.
Section 411.22 - Liability of third parties — subrogation.
Section 411.23 - Withdrawal of contributions — repayment — automatic refund.
Section 411.24 - Payment to representative payee.
Section 411.30 - Transfer of membership.
Section 411.31 - Optional transfers with chapter 97A.
Section 411.35 - Statewide system established — city systems terminated.
Section 411.36 - Board of trustees for statewide system.
Section 411.37 - Board responsible for transition.
Section 411.38 - Obligations of participating cities.
Section 411.39 - Benefits for employees of the board of trustees for the statewide system.