KRS 61.553: Service credit -- Police.

A Kentucky Employees Retirement System member's work performed in the Department

of Kentucky State Police or its predecessor agency, the State Highway Patrol, prior to

July 1, 1956, shall be creditable as prior service in the Kentucky Employees Retirement

System if the member has not received prior service credit in the State Police Retirement

System for such period of work. The purpose of this section is to grant prior service credit

to state employees who cannot obtain such credit under the State Police R etirement

System because of the maximum State Police employment age established by KRS

16.520.