S.B. 217 Enrolled

PURCHASE OF RETIREMENT CREDIT AMENDMENTS
1999 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Gene Davis
AN ACT RELATING TO RETIREMENT; AMENDING PURCHASE OF RETIREMENT
CREDIT PROVISIONS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
49-3-410, as last amended by Chapter 202, Laws of Utah 1996
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 49-3-410 is amended to read:
49-3-410. Purchase of retirement credit -- Conditions -- Cost.
(1) Any member of this system may receive retirement service credit in accordance with
Subsection (2).
(2) (a) A member may purchase or a member and an employing unit may jointly purchase
a combined maximum total of five years of retirement service credit which is not otherwise
purchasable under this chapter.
(b) The number of years of retirement service credit purchased may [not] exceed the
number of years or age required by the member to retire with no actuarial reduction.
(c) The purchase of retirement service credit must allow the member to meet the retirement
eligibility requirements of this system with no actuarial reduction.
(d) The member must retire effective immediately after the purchase of retirement service
credit is made.
(e) The member shall pay at least 5% of the cost of the purchase.
(3) The purchase price for the retirement service credit shall be calculated and paid for as
provided in Section 49-1-407 .
(4) (a) The employing unit may elect to purchase retirement service credit for a member
under Subsection (2) while the member is on an unpaid leave of absence.
(b) If the member is on an unpaid leave of absence, the employing unit may make

installment payments towards the purchase in amounts fixed by the administrator.
(c) The member shall retire when the purchase obligations are fulfilled.
(5) A member who retires after the employer purchases retirement service credit under this
section may not be reemployed by the employing unit from which the member retired.
(6) Prior to making any purchase of service credit under this section, an employing unit shall
adopt a purchase policy that includes nondiscriminatory participation standards for all employees.
Section 2. Effective date.
If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this act takes effect upon
approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah Constitution
Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto, the date of veto
override.

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