(40 ILCS 5/9-179) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-179)
Sec. 9-179.
Election as to amount to be deducted from compensation-refunds.
(a) Any employee who failed to elect to make contributions beginning on
September 1, 1935, for any period of service while he was not a contributor
to the fund or any employee who elected to make contributions for such
period and desires to change the amounts previously authorized by him, may,
upon application to the board elect to make such contributions. Any such
election shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
Interest on sums accumulated to the credit of such employee shall be
adjusted for the periods of time during which such contributions are made.
(b) Any employee may contribute to the fund for any period of service
rendered to such county after January 1, 1926, by virtue of appointment or
election to a position which did not allow him to contribute or to receive
credit under the provisions of "The 1925 Act" of this Article. Such
contributions may include: (1) any period during which he was in the armed
service of the United States if he left the service of the county to enter
military service in the armed services and returned to the service of such
county within 90 days after his discharge from such armed service, and if
such county did not make such payment on his behalf, (2) any period of
service for the county for which salary or wages were paid in whole or in
part by the State of Illinois and for which he was not allowed to
participate in a pension fund and also such period of service for which
lodging, board, and laundry was provided by the employer, in lieu of
salary, and no other salary or wages were paid, in which case the salary
base to be considered for such service shall be the amount set forth in
Section 9-112, paragraph (c) of this Article, (3) such amounts as he would
have contributed for annuity purposes had deductions from his salary been
made at the rates in effect under the provisions of "The 1925 Act" during
the period of time such service was rendered.
Upon making such contributions he shall be credited with concurrent
county contributions at the rates in effect for county employees during the
periods such service was rendered. Such payments and concurrent county
contributions shall be made with interest at the effective rate and shall,
together with all other amounts contributed by such employee for annuity
purposes, be considered in computing the annuities to which such employee
or his widow shall have a right. Any such periods of service for which
payment is made shall be counted as periods of service for annuity
purposes.
In order to be credited as service under Section 9-134 of this Article
all such payments by a county employee must be made in full while the
employee is still in service of the county. If payment is not so made any
payments made with interest at the effective rate shall be refunded to the
employee when he withdraws from service, or to his widow in the event of
his death, or if no widow, in accordance with the other refund provisions
of this Article. The employee may elect to have such partial payments made
by him, together with the concurrent county contributions and interest,
credited toward the age and service and widow's annuities on the assumption
that the payments shall apply to his earliest service. In the event of
death of the employee, while in service, his widow may elect to have such
payments and related county contributions, and interest, credited for
widow's annuity, to the extent that they do not increase her annuity above
that fixed for her on the assumption her deceased husband had continued in
service at the rate of his final salary until he became 65 years of age,
and the proportional part of the payments and related contributions were
included.
(Source: P.A. 77-1199.)
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