Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/943

 PUBLIC LAW 96-122—NOV. 17, 1979

93 STAT. 911

(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect at the Effective date, end of the ninety-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. INTEREST ON REFUNDS AND ON DEPOSITS FOR PRIOR SERVICE CREDIT

SEC. 208. (a)(1) Subsection (d) of the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act (D.C. Code, sec. 4-524) is amended— (A) in paragraph (2)— (i) by striking out "Any member coming under the provisions of this section" and inserting in lieu thereof "(A) any member who is an officer or member of the United States Park Police force, the Executive Protective Service, or the United States Secret Service Division,"; and (ii) by adding at the end of such paragraph the following new subparagraph: "(B) Any member who is an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia with less than five years of police or fire service who is separated from his department, except for retirement under subsection (D, (g), or (h), shall be refunded the amount of the deductions made from his salary under this section. The receipt of payment of such deductions by such member shall void all annuity rights under this section, except that if such member is subsequently reappointed to any department whose members come under this section and such member elects, at the time of such reappointment, to redeposit the amount refunded to him pursuant to the preceding sentence plus interest computed in accordance with subsection (1)(3), then credit shall be allowed under this section for the prior period of service. Such redeposit (and the interest required thereon) may be made, at the election of the member, in a lump sum or in not to exceed 60 monthly installments, except that if such member dies before depositing the full amount due under the preceding sentence, the requirements of such sentence shall be deemed to have been met."; (B) in the proviso at the end of paragraph (3), by inserting immediately before the period ", except that if the member was an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, no payment shall be made if no natural person is determined to be entitled thereto"; and (C) in paragraph (4)— (i) by striking out "after retirement", and (ii) in the proviso at the end of such paragraph by inserting ", except that if the member was an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, no payment shall be made if no natural person is determined to be entitled thereto" immediately before the period. (2) Paragraph (5) of subsection (c) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 4-523(5)) is amended to read as follows: "(5)(A) A member shall be allowed credit for government service performed prior to appointment in any of the departments mentioned in subsection (a)(1) of this section, if such member deposits a sum equal to the entire amount, including interest (if any), refunded to him for such period of government service. A member who is an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia shall deposit such sum, plus interest computed in accordance with subparagraph (B), with the Custodian of Retirement Funds (as defined in section 102(6) of the

D.C. Code 4-526, 4-527, 4-528.

Ante, p. 909.

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D.C. Code 4-521.

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