87.371. Unused sick leave, how credited.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

87.371. Unused sick leave, how credited.

Unused sick leave, how credited.

87.371. 1. Any member retiring pursuant to the provisions ofsections 87.120 to 87.370, after working continuously for an entity coveredby sections 87.120 to 87.370, until reaching retirement age, but notincluding retirement for service-connected disability, shall be creditedwith all of the member's unused sick leave as certified by the member'semploying entity.

2. No member working on or after July 1, 2000, shall be credited withsick leave at a rate less than or more than the rate being earned on July1, 2000, nor shall any cap or limit applied to accumulated sick leave afterJuly 1, 2000, be construed as a limit on the number of sick days actuallyearned without reference to the cap or limit which may be credited pursuantto the provisions of this section. When calculating years of service, eachmember shall be entitled to one day of creditable service for each day ofunused accumulated sick leave earned by the member.

3. Accumulated sick leave shall allow a member to vest in theretirement system by using such credited sick leave to reach the time ofvesting and shall also allow a member to exceed a seventy-five percentservice retirement allowance by adding accumulated sick leave to no morethan thirty years of creditable service or a member who is participating inthe DROP program established in section 87.182 may elect upon retirement tohave placed in his or her DROP account a dollar amount equal to his or heraccumulated number of sick leave hours multiplied by his or her hourly rateof pay at the time of retirement, or to place one-half of this dollaramount in the member's DROP account, to have one-fourth of this dollaramount added to the member's average final compensation, and to have theremaining one-fourth of this dollar amount remain as time and added to themember's creditable service.