CHAPTER 92

AN ACT to amend and reenact £85 51-62 of the Code of Vir-
ginta, 1950, concerning the prior service credit to be given
employees of projects acquired by the Department of High-
ways as listed in Section 88-228 of the Code of Virginia,

1950.
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Approved March 3, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That Section 51-62 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, be
amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
2. Subject to the above restrictions, and to such other rules
and regulations as are prescribed by the Board, the Board shall
ascertain, as soon as practicable after such statement is filed,
the amount of prior service, if any, to which each member is
entitled. If a member is an employee who was in service on,
or a person who was a teacher during any part of the school
year next preceding, or a person who was on leave from service
on, July first, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and if such em-
ployee or person, in the case of a person who has once elected
not to become a member, has filed his application for member-
ship within one hundred and fifty days after such date, or, in
the case of a person on leave from service on such date of estab-
lishment, within one hundred and fifty days after the termina-
tion of such leave, the Board shall issue to such member a prior
service certificate certifying the length of service rendered by
Any period or periods during which any such member
has been on leave from service shall not be counted in his prior
service credit. The Board may issue prior service certificates to
any other member who was an employee at any time during the
three-year period next preceding such date and who re-enters
service within the three-year period next following such date.

The Board may likewise issue prior service certificates to
any other member who was a division superintendent of schools
or school teacher in the public school system for at least thirty
vears prior to July first, nineteen hundred forty-two, regardless
of when such prior service terminated.

In addition to any prior service credit certified on his prior
service certificate for service rendered as an employee, as that
term is defined in this chapter, a member shall also be entitled
to have certified on his prior service certificate, as a part of his
prior service credit, one year’s credit for each year prior to
such date during which he was regularly and continuously em-
ployed by the Commonwealth, or by any department, institution
or agency thereof, and not compensated on a salary basis, re-
gardless of the method upon which he was compensated and of
the intervals at which his compensation was paid; provided that
any person who has been a continuous employee of the Depart-
ment of Highways since the establishment of the secondary sys-
tem of State highways, and who was, at that time and prior
thereto, under employment by any county for work on any road
which became a part of such secondary system, shall be entitled
to have one year’s credit on his prior service certificate for each
year he was continuously so employed by such county; provided
further that whatever contributions are required to be made to
entitle the employee to such credits, shall be made by the De-
partment of Highways out of funds apropriated to that depart-
ment.

Any person who has become a permanent employee of the
Department of Highways by reason of and at the time of the
acquisition of the properties of any project listed in Section
88-228 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, by the Department of
Highways and who was formerly continuously employed by the
Department of Highways or by any such acquired project listed
in Section 38-228, shall be entitled to one year of prior service
credit for each year so employed except that no prior service
credit for employment with such above referred to projects shall
be allowed prior to the date that the employee became covered
by the provisions of the Federal Social Security Act; provided
further that whatever contributions are required to be made to
entitle the employee to such credits, shall be made by the De-
partment of Highways out of funds appropriated to that depart-
ment.