Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 233

STATE EMPLOYEES RELATING TO COVERED EMPLOYMENT

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 104, VOLUME 45, LAWS OF DELAWARE, 1944-45, AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS "DELAWARE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION ACT," BY PROVIDING THAT AN EMPLOYEE SHALL BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN IN "COVERED EMPLOYMENT" FOR ANY PERIOD OR PERIODS DURING WHICH HE WAS EMPLOYED BY ANY COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY OF THIS STATE UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 104, Volume 45, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section to be entitled Section 15. as follows:

"Section 15. ELIGIBILITY:--In determining an employee's eligibility under this Act, such employee shall be considered to have been in 'covered employment' for any period or periods during which he was employed by any county or municipality of this State, if such county or municipal employment is covered under a pension system established by Act of the General Assembly; provided, that the pension to be paid under this Act shall be based exclusively upon service under this Act. Any payment shall be limited to an amount that would make the aggregate amount of pensions payable to an individual eligible under this and other Acts not more than the pension that would be paid to an individual whose service was exclusively under this Act."

Approved June 5, 1951.