CHAPTER 475

An Act to provide that the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 6 and 7 of Chapter
2 of Title 51 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the returement of
judges, disabled judges, retirement of judges and commissioners for
incapacity and the judges’ and commissioners’ retirement fund, shall
be applicable to assistant Attorneys General upon certain conditions.

[S 344]
Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 6 and 7 of Chapter 2, Title 51 of
the Code of Virginia, as heretofore or hereafter amended, shall, to the
extent herein provided, be applicable mutatis mutandis to, and shall in-
clude, any assistant Attorney General of Virginia after having attained
the age of seventy years and who has served as such for not less than
twenty years; provided that any interim service as Attorney General of
Virginia shall be deemed to be creditable service.

The provisions of § 51-27 of the Code shall apply to all salary earned
and paid to any assistant Attorney General subsequent to June thirtieth,
nineteen hundred and sixty; provided, that any assistant Attorney General
may notify the Comptroller not later than August thirty-first, nineteen
hundred sixty that he elects not to make the payments into the Judges’
and Commissioners’ Retirement Fund, in which event every assistant At-
torney General so electing shall not thereafter be entitled to receive any
retirement salary or other benefit provided for in Chapter 2, Title 51 of
the Code of Virginia.

Any person upon first being appointed to the office of assistant At-
torney General may notify the Comptroller not later than sixty days after
the commencement of his employment as such that he elects not to make
the payments into the Judges’ and Commissioners’ Retirement Fund, in
which event he shall not thereafter be entitled to receive any retirement
cay or other benefit provided for in Chapter 2, Title 51 of the Code of

irginia.

It is further provided that notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, and the provisions of Articles 1, 2, 6 and 7 of Chapter 2, Title 51,
of the Code of Virginia, the annual compensation to be paid any assistant
Attorney General who has made contributions under § 51-27 of the Code
of Virginia for a period of less than twenty years, and who retires under
the provisions of this chapter, shall be an amount equal to one-half of the
annual salary being received by him as assistant Attorney General im-
mediately prior to his retirement; and provided further that such com-
pensation from the State shall be reduced by the amount of the primary
social security benefit to which such assistant Attorney General is entitled
under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance provisions of the Federal
Social Security Act at the time of his retirement.