Same subject. Upon the basis of each actuarial valuation and

Membership in
retirement
system when
to begin
and how
composed.

Employees, employed

subsequent to October 1,

1923.

Employees employed prior to October 1, 1923, not members of other retire

ment system.

appraisal provided for in this act, the retirement board shall prepare and submit to the joint standing committee on finance of the city council on or before the first day of September in each year an itemized statement of the amounts necessary to be appropriated by the city to the various funds during the ensuing fiscal year. The city council shall make an appropriation which shall be sufficient to provide for the contributions required of the city of Providence under this act and the amount so appropriated shall be included in the annual appropriation bill and shall be paid by the city treasury to the various funds of the system created by this act.

SEC. 7. MEMBERSHIP OF RETIREMENT SYSTEM. (1) Membership in the retirement system shall begin not earlier than the fifth day of January, 1925, and shall consist of the following:

(a) all employees as defined in this act, who become employees on and after the first day of October, 1923, and who complete six months of service shall, under contract of their employment, become members of the retirement system, and shall receive no pension or retirement allowance from any other pension or retirement system supported wholly or in part by the city of Providence, nor shall they be required to make contributions under any other pension or retirement system of said city, anything to the contrary notwithstanding; (b) all employees in service prior to October 1, 1923, who are not members of any other pension or retirement system supported wholly or in part by the city of Providence, and who do not notify the retirement board in writing before the expiration of sixty days from the date when this retirement

system is established that they do not wish to join the system, shall become members; and

(c) all employees in service prior to October 1, 1923, who are members of any other pension or retirement system supported wholly or in part by the city of Providence on the date when this retirement system is established, who shall then or thereafter make written application to join this system and shall therein waive and renounce all benefits of any other pension or retirement system supported wholly or in part by the city of Providence, shall become members and shall not be required to make contribution under any other pension or retirement system of said city, anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

No employee whose membership in the retirement system is contingent on his own election to join, as provided in (c) above, shall receive prior service credit unless he makes such application for membership within one year from the date of the establishment of this system. Employees who elect not to join this retirement system, as provided in (b) above, may thereafter be admitted to membership, but no employee shall receive credit for prior service unless he applies for membership within one year from the date of the establishment of the system.

(2) It shall be the duty of the head of each department to submit to the retirement board a statement showing the name, title, compensation, duties, date of birth and length of service of each member, and such other information as the retirement board may require. The retirement board shall then classify each member in one of the following groups:

Group 1. Laborers, mechanics, and workers Group 1. engaged in duties requiring principally physical exertion;

Group 2.

Group 3.

Group 4.

Group 5.

Credit for service rendered.

Group 2. Clerical, administrative, professional and technical workers engaged in duties requiring principally mental exertion;

Group 3. Members of the teaching staff of the public schools of the city of Providence;

Group 4. Members of the fire department of the city of Providence;

Group 5. Members of the police department of the city of Providence;

Or in any other group of not less than 500 members which may be recommended by the actuary on the basis of the service and mortality experience and approved by the board of retirement.

The board shall certify to the member the group in which he is placed and the date of his admission to membership therein. When the duties of a member so require, the retirement board may classify him in another group and transfer him thereto and shall thereupon certify to him the group to which he has been transferred.

Should the service of any member in any period of six consecutive years after last becoming a member amount to less than three years, or should he withdraw his accumulated contributions, or should he become a beneficiary or die, he shall thereupon cease to be a member.

SEC. 8. SERVICE CREDITABLE. (1) Under such rules and regulations as the retirement board shall adopt each member who was an employee on or prior to the fifth day of January, 1925, and who became a member within the first year following said date shall file a detailed statement of all service as an employee rendered by him prior to that date, for which he claims credit and of such other facts as the retirement board may require for the proper operation of the retirement system.

(2) The retirement board shall fix and determine Same subject. by appropriate rules and regulations how much service in any year is equivalent to a year of service, but in computing such service or in computing the compensation it shall credit no period of more than a month's duration which a member was absent without pay, or shall more than one year of service be credited on account of all service in one calendar year.

(3) Subject to the above restrictions and to such other rules and regulations as the retirement board shall adopt the retirement board shall verify as soon as practicable after the establishment of the system the statement of service submitted.

(4) Upon verification of the statement of service submitted the retirement board shall issue to the member a prior service certificate certifying to onehalf the aggregate length of prior service as an employee. So long as membership continues a prior service certificate shall be final and conclusive for retirement purposes as to such service unless thereafter modified by the retirement board upon application made by the member within one year after date of issuance or modification of the prior service certificate or upon discovery by the retirement board of an error or fraud. When membership ceases such certificate shall be void. Should membership be resumed by the employee, such employee shall enter the system as an employee not entitled to prior service credit.

(5) At retirement the total service credited a member shall consist of the service rendered by him as an employee since he last became a member and also if he has a prior service certificate which is in full force and effect, the service as an employee certified on his prior service certificate.

Benefits.
Service

retirement.

Minimum age

for service retirement.

SEC. 9. BENEFITS PAYABLE. Service Retirement. (1) Retirement of a member on a service retirement allowance shall be made by the retirement boards as follows:

(a) Each member who has attained the age of seventy and each member who attains the age of seventy, shall be retired forthwith, or on the first day of the calendar month next succeeding that in which the said member shall have attained the age of seventy years, unless he requests permission to continue in service, in which case the retirement board by affirmative vote may permit his continuation in service for a term of one year, at the end of which time he shall be retired as though he had then attained age seventy: Provided, however, that the retirement board may by affirmative vote at the end of any such period again permit his continuation in service for a period of one year.

(b) Any member may retire upon his written application to the retirement board setting forth at what time, not less than thirty nor more than ninety days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he desires to be retired, provided that the said member at the time so specified for his retirement shall have attained the minimum retirement age for his group and not withstanding that, during such period of notification, he may have separated from service. The minimum ages for service retirement from the groups created by section 7 of this act, shall be as follows: