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Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-111.5: Written election - Employer and employee

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contributions and accrued earnings - Service.

A. Any individual who was a member with a vested benefit with

the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System on or after July

1, 1987, and who becomes appointed to a position in the Oklahoma

State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Oklahoma

State Bureau of Investigation, or the Alcoholic Beverage Laws

Enforcement Commission may, at the time the individual accepts such

position, elect in writing to remain a member of the Oklahoma Police

Pension and Retirement System as long as the individual has not

begun receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Police Pension and

Retirement System or the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System

and shall not become a member of the Oklahoma Law Enforcement

Retirement System. The agency shall send a copy of the written

election to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System and

the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System within five (5)

business days from its signing. If such eligible individual does

not elect to remain in the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement

System pursuant to this subsection, then the individual may elect to

transfer at a later date pursuant to subsection B of this section.

B. Any individual who was a member with a vested benefit with

the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System on or after July

1, 1987, and who subsequently entered the Oklahoma Law Enforcement

Retirement System because he or she was appointed to a position in

the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control,

the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, or the Alcoholic

Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission or, effective July 1, 2013,

through July 31, 2013, an individual who made an election under

subsection A that had been accepted by the Oklahoma Police Pension

and Retirement System who did not have a vested benefit may, at any

time the member is an active employee of such agency and has not

begun receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Police Pension and

Retirement System or the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System,

elect in writing to reenter the Oklahoma Police Pension and

Retirement System. Such written election shall be provided to the

Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System. For purposes of this

section, constructive receipt of the written election shall be the

first day of the month following actual receipt.

1. A person who elects to transfer pursuant to this subsection

shall have all of his or her employer and employee contributions

made to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System transferred

to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System along with

accrued earnings based upon the actuarial rate of return of the

Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System. Upon receiving the

transfer of the employer and employee contributions and earnings,

and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 50-111.4 of this

title, the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System shall treat

the service that the member accrued in the Oklahoma Law Enforcement

Retirement System as service in the Oklahoma Police Pension and

Retirement System; and

2. Upon actual receipt of the written election pursuant to this

subsection, the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System shall

notify the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System of the

transfer election and shall send to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement

Retirement System a copy of the election within five (5) business

days. The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System shall transfer

the employer and employee contributions and earnings of the

transferring member to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement

System on or before the first day of the month following

constructive receipt of the election. The transferring member shall

then reenter the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System

(5) business

days. The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System shall transfer

the employer and employee contributions and earnings of the

transferring member to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement

System on or before the first day of the month following

constructive receipt of the election. The transferring member shall

then reenter the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System

beginning on the first day of the month following the month in which

constructive receipt of the written election was made to the

Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System. Any member who

transfers to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System

pursuant to this subsection shall have all service credit in the

Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System canceled.

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2-300 et seq. of

Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Oklahoma State Bureau of

Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Oklahoma State Bureau of

Investigation, and the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement

Commission shall make employer contributions to the Oklahoma Police

Pension and Retirement System in the same manner as participating

municipalities of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System

for all members who either elect to remain in or elect to transfer

to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System pursuant to

this section. The electing member shall make employee contributions

to the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System as other

participating members of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement

System.

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