§2215. City of Houma; optional membership in systems

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 11:2214 or of any other law to the contrary, any person who becomes an employee of the police department of the city of Houma after September 12, 1975 may elect to become a member of either the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System or the retirement system which was applicable to employees of the Houma Police Department prior to the establishment of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System. Each such employee shall exercise the option herein granted within thirty days after the date of employment. Upon the exercise of the option herein granted and the payment to the system in which the employee elects to become a member, membership therein shall be granted and shall be made retroactive to the date of employment.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 11:2214, R.S. 11:142, or any other law to the contrary, any person who on September 12, 1975 is an employee of the police department of the city of Houma and is a member of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System may, within ninety days after September 12, 1975, elect to transfer his membership to the retirement system which was applicable prior to the establishment of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System. Within thirty days after exercising this option, the board of trustees of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System shall transfer all retirement credit belonging to said person on the date of transfer, to the retirement system applicable prior to the establishment of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, which system shall accept the transfer and grant the credit to the member. In the same manner, there shall be transferred a sum equal to the employee and employer contributions which would have been made for the period of time for which credit is transferred, if the contribution rates in effect for the retirement system applicable prior to the establishment of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System had been used. Within thirty days after the election is made, the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System shall pay to the person making the transfer a sum equal to any difference between the amount of employee contributions which were made and the employee contributions which should have been made if the contribution rates in effect for the retirement system applicable prior to the establishment of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System had been used.

Added by Acts 1975, No. 377, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2373.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.