Sec. 2a.
(1) Any district, county, city, township or village health department, with the approval of the local governing body, may enter into an agreement with the director for the transfer to the department of meat inspection officers and employees certified as qualified by the state civil service commission. Such transfer shall not affect the then existing civil service status or possible pension rights of the transferred officers and employees.
(2) Officers and employees transferred by agreements pursuant to this section, who were members of a district, county, city, township or village retirement system and become members of the state employees' retirement system, shall be entitled to benefits provided by Act No. 88 of the Public Acts of 1961, as amended, being sections 38.1101 to 38.1105 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, notwithstanding that the district, county, city, township or village might not have adopted the provisions of Act No. 88 of the Public Acts of 1961. Whenever the service requirements for benefits to be paid under Act No. 240 of the Public Acts of 1943, as amended, being sections 38.1 to 38.43 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, to the persons who become members of the state employees' retirement system are lower than the service requirements in Act No. 88 of the Public Acts of 1961, the provisions of Act No. 240 of the Public Acts of 1943, as amended, shall apply with respect to such persons.
History: Add. 1966, Act 239, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966
Last modified: October 10, 2016