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§ 104.343 — Military service, purchase of prior service credit, refund to surviving spouse when death occurs before retirement, procedure, limitation.

Missouri § 104.343
JurisdictionMissouri
Title VIIIPUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS
Ch. 104Retirement of State Officers and Employees

This text of Missouri § 104.343 (Military service, purchase of prior service credit, refund to surviving spouse when death occurs before retirement, procedure, limitation.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Missouri primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 104.343 (2026).

Text

The surviving spouse of any deceased member who purchased creditable prior service for service in the Armed Forces of the United States pursuant to subsection 4 of section 104.340 and who died prior to retirement may, upon written request, receive a refund of the amount contributed for such purchase of creditable prior service, provided the surviving spouse is not entitled to a survivorship benefit as payable under the provisions of section 104.420 .

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Legislative History

(L. 1989 H.B. 674, A.L. 1992 S.B. 499, et al.)

Nearby Sections

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§ 104.010
Definitions.
§ 104.012
Spouse defined.
§ 104.020
System created.
§ 104.030
Highway patrol uniformed members and civilian employees to be members of retirement system — credit for military service, when.
§ 104.035
Deferred normal annuity on termination of employment to be paid to employee, requirements — reemployment and member of system, prior service credit restored, when — transportation department and highway patrol, deferred normal annuity, when, requirements.
§ 104.040
Members to receive credit for prior service — military service to be considered — purchase of credit for service in the Armed Forces, cost, interest rate, computation — certain creditable prior service, purchase of, effect — nonfederal public employment, purchase of credit for service.
§ 104.050
Years of service used in calculating annuity — noncompensated absences for illness and injury, effect — withdrawal before entitled to deferred annuity, relinquishes all rights — reinstatement of forfeited creditable service, when.
§ 104.060
No payroll deductions — accumulated contributions refunded, when, to whom.
§ 104.070
Board to submit estimate of amounts to be contributed by state — included in appropriation request.
§ 104.080
Member may retire when — waiver of monthly annuity, when.
§ 104.081
Highway patrol retirement age.
§ 104.090
Normal annuity of retired member — additional allowance to patrolmen, qualifications — survivorship options — option selected prior to retirement, death of spouse, effect — spouse as beneficiary, effect — dissolution of marriage, cancellation of election, when.
§ 104.100
Early retirement and retirement, service credits required at age fifty-five — sixty — sixty-five, exception — computation.
§ 104.1003
Definitions.
§ 104.1006
Year 2000 plan, citation, applicability of other provisions.
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