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.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 411.4

  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Member: means a member of the retirement system as defined by section 411. See Iowa Code 411.1
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Retirement allowance: shall mean the pension, or any benefits in lieu thereof, granted to a member upon retirement. See Iowa Code 411.1
  • system: means the statewide fire and police retirement system established by this chapter for the fire fighters and police officers of the cities described in section 411. See Iowa Code 411.1
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 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 a. The member had withdrawn the member’s accumulated contributions, as defined in section 411.21, for the previous period of service.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”.
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