A.  A member who withdraws from active service on or after the revision date prior to becoming eligible for retirement, having at least seven years of creditable service, and having received no refund of his accumulated contributions, shall be entitled to receive a retirement allowance to commence on his earliest normal retirement date.

(1)  Such deferred retirement allowance shall be computed according to the provisions of Part III, Part IV, or Part IV-A whichever governed such member prior to his withdrawal from service, based on final compensation and creditable service at date of withdrawal.

(2)  During the period from the member’s date of withdrawal from service to the member’s earliest normal retirement date, he shall not be considered to be a member and therefore shall not be entitled to any benefits due a member.  Upon retirement he shall be entitled to exercise all rights and privileges of a retired member.

B.  A member who withdrew from active service prior to the revision date, and having received no refund of his accumulated contributions, shall be entitled to receive a vested retirement allowance according to the statutes in effect at time of such withdrawal, provided he was eligible therefor.

C.  Should a vested termination member return to active employment, he shall become a member and shall contribute at the current rate; but should such member return to employment after attaining the age of fifty, his benefit upon retirement shall not exceed the sum of the benefit for which he would have been eligible based on the previously credited service and the benefit for which he would be eligible based on the service since his latest employment, had he enrolled at that time as a new entrant.

Acts 1979, No. 765, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 33:6131 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 867, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 2001, No. 695, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.