Section 4715 - Reinstatement and requirements for credit for previous service(a) No county employe shall be permitted to withdraw his or her contributions as paid into the retirement fund upon transfer from one office, department or agency to another. Any person who has ceased to be a county employe and whose contributions as paid into the retirement fund, have been refunded by the board, if such person has been reemployed by the county or county institution district and desires to be given credit for previous service as a county employe, he or she shall make payment in full of the amount refunded, with interest at the legal rate, the said interest to be computed from the date of the refund to the date of repayment. Both principal and interest shall be paid into the retirement fund at one time and in one amount, or, upon approval of the board, both principal and interest shall be consolidated into one amount and paid in twenty-four or less equal monthly installments, plus interest payment on monthly balances. Upon application to the board, an employe shall be permitted to pay the principal and interest in thirty-six or less equal monthly installments, plus interest payment on monthly balances. Full payment thereof shall be a condition precedent to the county employe being eligible to receive the benefits of the retirement allowance plus a service increment, if any. Such county employe shall make monthly payments into the retirement fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1708. If any person who hereafter becomes a county employe and thereafter ceases to be a county employe and his or her contributions as paid into the retirement fund are refunded by the board, is reemployed by the county or county institution district and he or she desires to be given credit for previous service as a county employe, he or she shall make payment in full of the amount refunded, with interest at the legal rate, the said interest to be computed from the date of refund to the date of repayment. Both principal and interest shall be paid into the retirement fund at one time and in one amount, or, upon approval of the board both principal and interest shall be consolidated into one amount and paid in twenty-four or less equal monthly installments, plus interest payments on monthly balances. Whenever the time for payment in full has been extended for an additional period of one year the principal and interest may be paid in a total of not more than thirty-six equal monthly installments. Full payment thereof shall be a condition precedent to the county employe being eligible to receive the benefits of the retirement allowance plus a service increment, if any. Such county employe shall make monthly payments into the retirement fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1708. Any person who is a county employe on the effective date of this act may make payments into the retirement fund which shall cover a period of time within which such person was a county employe but was not a member of the retirement system because such membership was not compulsory.
(b) Any person who has heretofore or who hereafter ceases to be a county employe and whose contributions as paid into the retirement fund, have heretofore or shall hereafter be refunded by the board, if such person is reemployed by the county or county institution district and desires to be given credit for previous service as a county employe, he or she shall make payment in full of the amount refunded, with interest at the legal rate, the said interest to be computed from the date of the refund to the date of repayment. Both principal and interest shall be paid into the retirement fund at one time and in one amount. Upon application to the board, an employe shall be permitted to pay the principal and interest in thirty-six or less equal monthly installments, plus interest payment on monthly balances. Full payment thereof shall be a condition precedent to the county employe being eligible to receive the benefits of the retirement allowance plus a service increment, if any. Such county employe shall make monthly payments into the retirement fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1708. No person reemployed as a county employe in accordance with the provisions of this subsection shall be eligible to receive a retirement allowance by reason of total and permanent physical disability, in accordance with the provisions of section 1711, unless he or she shall be in employ for a period of not less than twenty years, which said period of employment shall include credit given for previous service, as herein provided. No person who is ineligible to become a member of the retirement system shall be eligible to receive credit for previous service as a county employe, as hereinbefore provided.(c) Any county employe who desires to be given credit for previous service in the employ of the county as an elected or appointed employe or official, where such service subsequent to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred forty, was rendered to the county at a time when such employe or official was not a member of the county employes' retirement system, including a period of probation served immediately after initial hiring, shall make application to the board, and upon approval thereof shall pay into the retirement fund a sum equal to twice the payment which such employe would have made had such person been a member thereof and had the payments been made in accordance with the provision of this article. In addition thereto, interest at the legal rate shall be paid from the date when the said monthly payment would have been made. Both principal and interest shall be paid into the retirement fund at one time and in one amount, or, upon approval of the board, both principal and interest shall be consolidated into one amount and paid in twenty-four or less equal monthly installments, plus interest payment on monthly balances. Full payment thereof shall be a condition precedent to the county employe being eligible to receive the benefits of the retirement allowances. Such county employe shall make monthly payments into the retirement fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1708.(d) Any person employed by any county correctional institution at the date such person became eligible for membership in the county employes' retirement system, who desires to be given credit for previous service in the employ of such institution when such employe was not eligible for membership, shall make application to the board, and upon approval thereof shall pay into the retirement fund a sum equal to twice the payment which such employe would have made had such person been a member thereof and had the payments been made in accordance with the provisions of this article. In addition thereto, interest at the legal rate shall be paid from the date when the said monthly payment would have been made. Both principal and interest shall be paid into the retirement fund at one time and in one amount, or upon approval of the board, both principal and interest shall be consolidated into one amount and paid in twenty-four or less equal monthly installments, plus interest payment on monthly balances. Full payment thereof shall be a condition precedent to the county employe being eligible to receive the benefits of the retirement allowances. Such county employe shall make monthly payment into the retirement fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1708.1953, July 28, P.L. 723, art. XVII, § 1715. Amended 1955, May 31, P.L. 111, § 1; 1959, Dec. 28, P.L. 2024, § 1; 1963, Aug. 2, P.L. 500, § 1; 1968, July 31, P.L. 959, No. 292, § 1; 1969, Aug. 7, P.L. 223, § 1; 1973, June 1, P.L. 44, No. 19, § 2, imd. effective; 1976, June 29, P.L. 461, No. 116, § 6, imd. effective; 1979, Dec. 11, P.L. 494, No. 105, § 3, imd. effective; 1984, Feb. 9, P.L. 12, No. 6, § 4, effective in 60 days; 1989, Dec. 14, P.L. 631, No. 75, § 6, imd. effective; 1996, May 16, P.L. 210, No. 39, § 3, imd. effective.