22-11-23: Retirement eligibility; initial membership prior to July 1, 2010.

A. A member who was a member on June 30, 2010, or was a member at any time prior to that date and had not, on that date, been refunded all member contributions pursuant to Subsection A of Section 22-11-15 NMSA 1978, shall be eligible for retirement benefits when:

(1) the member is any age and has twenty-five or more years of earned and allowed service credit;

(2) the member is at least sixty-five years of age and has five or more years of earned service credit; or

(3) the sum of the member's age and years of earned service credit equals at least seventy-five; provided that a member who retires pursuant to this paragraph shall be subject to the benefit reductions provided in Subsection G of Section 22-11-30 NMSA 1978.

B. A member shall be subject to the provisions of Subsection A of this section as they existed at the beginning of the member's last cumulated four quarters of earned service credit, regardless of later amendment.