Sec. 51-49a. Vested and nonforfeitable right to retirement salary after ten years of service. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 51-49a. Vested and nonforfeitable right to retirement salary after ten years of service. (a) The right to a retirement salary, in accordance with the provisions of this section, of any judge, family support magistrate or compensation commissioner who is not eligible to retire under the provisions of section 51-50a, which judge, family support magistrate or commissioner has completed ten years of service as such, shall be vested and nonforfeitable.

      (b) Any such judge or commissioner who first commenced service as a judge or compensation commissioner prior to January 1, 1981, and who resigns prior to becoming eligible to retire under section 51-50a and after at least ten years of service, shall receive, at such time as he would have been eligible to so retire if he had continued in such service, as retirement salary, annually, fifty per cent of the retirement salary he would have received had he served until he was so eligible, plus ten per cent of such retirement salary for each year of service beyond ten years but for not more than five years of additional service.

      (c) Any such judge, family support magistrate or commissioner who first commenced service as a judge, family support magistrate or compensation commissioner on or after January 1, 1981, and who resigns prior to becoming eligible to retire under section 51-50a and after at least ten years of service, shall receive, at such time as he would have been eligible to so retire if he had continued in such service, annually, an amount equal to the fraction of the retirement salary he would have received had he served until he was so eligible which corresponds to the ratio which the number of years of his completed service bears to the number of years of service which would have been completed at age sixty-five or twenty years, whichever is less.

      (d) In determining the amount of retirement payments to be made pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, longevity payments which would have been made if the judge, family support magistrate or commissioner had continued to serve as a judge, family support magistrate or commissioner from the date of resignation with a vested right to a retirement salary shall not be included in the computation.

      (P.A. 78-342, S. 3; P.A. 80-337, S. 7, 13; P.A. 82-248, S. 25; P.A. 84-399, S. 3, 17; P.A. 92-226, S. 5, 28.)

      History: P.A. 80-337 specified applicability of previous provisions to judges and commissioners whose term of service began before January 1, 1981, and added provisions applicable to those whose service began on or after that date; P.A. 82-248 made technical revision, rewording some provisions and dividing section into Subsecs. but made no substantive change; P.A. 84-399 added Subsec. (d) providing that longevity payments which would have been made if judge or compensation commissioner continued to serve from the date of resignation shall not be included in computation of benefits; P.A. 92-226 extended provisions of section to include family support magistrates.