KRS 212.434: Prior service credit.

All regular full -time public health employees of any joint city -county health department

located in a county containing a city of the first class shall be given credit for any prior

service with such department before July 1, 1956, but any such regular ful l-time public

health employee shall be allowed credit for current service for the period July 1, 1956, to

July 1, 1962; provided, such employee pays to the retirement system the contribution he

would have paid for the period from July 1, 1956, to July 1, 1 962, with interest at the rate

determined by the board of trustees and an additional sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of

this amount. The payment of the fifty percent (50%) sum shall be considered as

accumulated contributions of the member.