§ 13-308 — Credit for certain prior city service

§ 13-308 Credit for certain prior city service.

Any person who was a member of the New York city employees' retirement system, and whose membership therein was terminated by his or her attaining membership in the fire department pension fund, subchapter one, and who had withdrawn his or her contributions to the New York city employees' retirement system, shall receive credit in the said fire department pension fund for prior creditable city service by paying into the said fire department pension fund the amount of the employee contributions required to have been paid into the New York city employees' retirement system for such prior creditable city service, within two years after this act shall take effect, provided, however, that no member of the said fire department pension fund shall be eligible for retirement for service until he or she has served in the fire department for a minimum period of twenty or twenty-five years, according to the minimum period of retirement elected by such member prior to the certification of his or her rate of contribution.