§ 411.4 — Service creditable

Iowa § 411.4

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title IX: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Ch. 411: RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR POLICE OFFICERS AND FIRE FIGHTERS

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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
oneyearofservicebecreditableforallserviceinonecalendaryear, norshallthesystemallow
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a. The member had withdrawn the member’s accumulated contributions, as defined in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”.

Legislative History

[C35, §6326-f4; C39, §6326.06; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §411.4]