KRS 61.546: Sick leave for employees who began participating before January 1, 2014.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by this section, any member of the Kentucky

Employees Retirement System or the State Police Retirement System whose

retirement date is J uly 14, 1984, or thereafter, shall receive credit for unused sick

leave accrued while contributing to the retirement system from which the retirement

benefit is to be paid in accordance with this section.

(2) (a) Upon the member's notification of retiremen t as prescribed in KRS 16.576 or

61.590, the employer shall certify the retiring member's unused, accumulated

sick leave balance to the system.

(b) The member's sick leave balance, expressed in days, shall be divided by the

average number of working days per month in the state service and rounded to

the nearest number of whole months.

(c) Except as provided by subsection (3) of this section, the member's sick leave

balance, expressed in months, shall upon retirement be added to his or her

service credit fo r the purpose of determining his or her annual retirement

allowance under KRS 16.505 to 16.652 or 61.510 to 61.705 and for the

purpose of determining whether the member is eligible to receive a retirement

allowance under KRS 16.505 to 16.652 or 61.510 to 61.705.

(3) For a member who begins participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement

System or the State Police Retirement System on or after September 1, 2008:

(a) The member shall receive no more than twelve (12) months of service credit

upon retirement for accumulated unused sick leave accrued while contributing

to the retirement system or systems from which the retirement benefit is to be

paid;

(b) The service credited for accumulated unused sick leave as limited by this

section and added to the member 's service credit shall be used for purposes of

determining the member's annual retirement allowance under KRS 16.505 to

16.652 and 61.510 to 61.705; and

(c) The service credited for accumulated unused sick leave and added to the

member's service credit sh all not be used to determine whether a member is

eligible to receive a retirement allowance under any of the provisions of KRS

16.505 to 16.652 and 61.510 to 61.705.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, the value of any

accumulated sick leave that is added to the member's service credit in the Kentucky

Employees Retirement System or the State Police Retirement System on or after

July 1, 2010, shall be paid to the retirement system by the last participating

Kentucky Employees Retirement System or State Police Retirement System

employer based upon a formula adopted by the board.

(5) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a partic ipating agency whose

employees are not employed by the Commonwealth until the agency certifies to the

system that a sick leave program has been formally adopted and is universally

administered within the agency.

(6) This section shall not apply to members who begin participating in the systems

administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems on or after January 1, 2014.