SECTION 77.15. Payments to Establish or Reestablish Service Credit

(a) A member or contributing member of the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or Plan Two may purchase eligible service creditable in the member's respective retirement system in accordance with the Government Code, Chapter 833 and Chapter 838, respectively. Subject to §77.23, the retirement system shall grant the applicable amount of service credit after each payment made under this section is equal to the amount required to establish one or more months of creditable service.

(b) Service credit that may be established or reestablished includes military service credit, service credit previously cancelled, and service credit not previously established, and calendar year service credit.

(c) The ERS shall develop procedures and forms to be used in connection with this section.

Source Note: The provisions of this §77.15 adopted to be effective September 2, 1993, 18 TexReg 5594; amended to be effective September 15, 1997, 22 TexReg 9006; amended to be effective December 31, 2003, 28 TexReg 11612; amended to be effective January 10, 2006, 31 TexReg 169; amended to be effective March 27, 2018, 43 TexReg 1876