RS 11:565.1: Credit for service as full-time law clerk

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who is a participant in the retirement plan maintained for judges and officers of the court within the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System shall be eligible to receive nonjudicial credit for all service rendered as a full-time law clerk for a judge or justice of any district court or appellate court of record in this state. In order to obtain this credit, the member shall make application therefor on or before January 1, 1998, and furnish to the board of trustees a detailed statement of all service for which credit is claimed in such form as the board may require. In addition, there shall be paid into the system, if not previously paid, an amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 11:158. Such amounts shall be paid in one lump sum.