A8.596-2 SERVICE RETIREMENT

Any member of the fire department who completes at least twenty-five (25) years of service in the aggregate and attains the age of fifty (50) years, said service to be computed under Section A8.596-10, may retire for service at his or her option. A member retired after meeting the service and age requirements in the preceding sentence, shall receive a retirement allowance equal to the percent of the final compensation of said member, as defined in Section A8.596-1, set forth below opposite his or her age at retirement, taken to the preceding quarter year, for each year of service, as computed under Section A8.596-10: Retirement Age Percent for Each Year of Credited Service Retirement Age Percent for Each Year of Credited Service 50 2.400 50.25 2.430 50.5 2.460 50.75 2.490 51 2.520 51.25 2.550 51.5 2.580 51.75 2.610

52 2.640 52.25 2.670 52.5 2.700 52.75 2.730 53 2.760 53.25 2.790 53.5 2.820 53.75 2.850 54 2.880 54.25 2.910 54.5 2.940 54.75 2.970 55+ 3.000

In no event, however, shall such a retirement allowance exceed ninety (90) percent of a member's final compensation. If, at the date of retirement for service, or retirement for disability resulting from an injury received in the performance of duty, said member has no spouse, children or dependent parents, who would qualify for the continuance of the allowance after the death of said member, or with respect to the portion of the allowance which would not be continued regardless of dependents, or upon retirement for disability resulting from other causes, with respect to all of the allowance and regardless of dependents at retirement, a member retired under this section, or Section A8.596-3, may elect before the first payment of the retirement allowance is made, to receive the actuarial equivalent of his or her allowance or the portion which would not be continued regardless of dependents, as the case may be, partly in a lesser allowance to be received by him or her throughout his or her life, and partly in other benefits payable after his or her death to another person or persons, provided that such election shall be subject to all the conditions prescribed by the Board of Supervisors to govern similar election by other members of the Retirement System, including the character and amount of such other benefits. (Added November 2002)