MS HB962

Allows retired Highway Safety Patrol officers to be reemployed after retirement while continuing to receive retirement allowance, provided they have withdrawn from service for the minimum period prescribed by the Board of Trustees.

Reemployed retired officers must be selected by the Commissioner of Public Safety from names submitted by district captains and can only be employed for regular traffic law enforcement duties, not primarily administrative work.

Reemployed retired officers are limited to working no more than one-half of normal working days or equivalent hours per fiscal year at no more than one-half of the sergeant first class salary, and must maintain the rank of sergeant first class during reemployment.

Reemployed retired officers cannot be contributing members of the retirement system, receive no additional creditable service, and remain subject to mandatory retirement age provisions; the Department of Public Safety must pay the board an amount equal to the employer's contribution to offset increased pension liability.

The section repeals on July 1, 2012, with the act effective July 1, 2010.