§ 509. Statements of teachers' service; determination of service\ncreditable; service certificates. 1. Under such rules and regulations as\nthe retirement board shall adopt, each present teacher shall file a\ndetailed statement of all service as a teacher and service in a similar\ncapacity in other states rendered by him prior to the first day of\nAugust, nineteen hundred twenty-one, for which he claims credit, and of\nsuch other facts as the retirement board may require for the proper\noperation of the retirement system.\n 2. a. Each new entrant shall file a detailed statement of (1) service\nas a teacher; (2) service in other states, territories, possessions and\ncommonwealths of the United States, which would constitute service as a\nteacher within the meaning of subdivision four of section five hundred\none of this article had it been performed within New York state rendered\nby him prior to so becoming a member; (3) governmental service in the\nstate of New York where he was a member of the New York state and local\nemployees' retirement system, and where such service was credited to him\nin the said New York state and local employees' retirement system; (4)\nservice with the New York city corrections department prior to nineteen\nhundred fifty-six which would constitute service as a teacher within the\nmeaning of subdivision four of section five hundred one of this article\nhad it been performed in the employ of a public school in New York\nstate; (5) such service that would have been creditable in one of the\npublic retirement systems of the state, as defined in subdivision\ntwenty-three of section five hundred one of the retirement and social\nsecurity law, at the time the service was rendered, had the individual\nbeen a member of such retirement system; (6) a statement as to the\nnumber of years on account of which he desires to contribute; and (7)\nsuch other facts as the retirement board may require for the proper\noperation of the system.\n b. No credit shall be allowed for service which has been credited in\nany retirement system if the member on or after the effective date of\nthis paragraph withdraws his contributions to such retirement system and\nterminates his membership therein during the period in which his\nmembership in such other system would have been valid and because of\nsuch withdrawal or termination transfer of such credit from such other\nretirement system cannot be made to the New York state teachers\nretirement system pursuant to section five hundred twenty-two of this\narticle.\n c. No prior service claim will be allowed for any service for which\nthe person is receiving a benefit or will be entitled to receive a\nbenefit at any future time from some other public retirement system, in\nthis state, in any other state or from the federal government.\n 3. The retirement board shall fix and determine by appropriate rules\nand regulations how much service in any year is the equivalent of a year\nof service, but in computing such service or in computing average\ncompensation, it shall credit no period of more than a month's duration,\nduring which a member was absent without pay, nor shall more than one\nyear of service be credited for all service in any calendar year.\n 4. Subject to the above restrictions and to such other rules and\nregulations as the retirement board shall adopt, said board shall verify\nas soon as practicable the statement of service submitted.\n 5. After the member has rendered at least two full years of service\nsince he last became a member, upon verification of the statement of\nservice submitted and receipt of any contribution required to be paid by\nthe member pursuant to paragraph a of subdivision eight of this section,\nthe retirement board shall credit the member with the length of such\nprior service as set forth in (1), (3), (4) and (5) of paragraph a of\nsubdivision two of this section and the aggregate length of such prior\nservice not to exceed ten years as se
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