§ 341. Allowances for service. a. Generally. Subject to all provisions\nof law appertaining thereto and to such reasonable rules and regulations\nas the comptroller shall adopt or amend in pursuance thereof, he shall\ndetermine and may modify allowances for service and shall issue prior\nservice certificates and certificates for service in war after world war\nI. The comptroller, however, shall not allow more than one year of\ncredit for all service rendered in any calendar year.\n b. Allowable service. Only the following types of service shall be\nallowable in computing service credits:\n 1. Police or fire service.\n 2. Government service.\n 3. Prior city and county service rendered in a city of the state or in\na county within the boundaries of such city, if such city has a pension\nsystem allowing credit for prior state and county service.\n 4. Prior service rendered to an employer before the latter became a\nparticipating employer. Such credit shall be allowable immediately upon\nsuch employer's becoming a participating employer. The employer for whom\nthe member is working at the time such prior service credit is allowed,\nshall pay the contribution required to be made by an employer on account\nof such credit.\n 5. Service rendered to the state or a participating employer while a\nmember of the state employees retirement system.\n 6. Civil service in any capacity as an officer or employee of the\nfederal government, or military duty in the armed forces of the federal\ngovernment and not otherwise creditable, rendered or performed by a\nmember prior to the time he or she last became a member. The allowance\nof credit for such service shall be conditioned upon the receipt by the\npolice and fire retirement system of all the payments required to be\nmade on account thereof by section three hundred forty-two of this\narticle.\n 7. Civil service rendered as an officer or employee of the federal\ngovernment as provided in subdivision d of section three hundred forty\nof this article. The allowance of credit for such service shall be\nconditioned upon the receipt by the retirement system of all the\npayments required to be made on account thereof by section three hundred\nforty-two of this article. Except as so provided, employment by the\nfederal government shall not entitle a person to contribute to the\npolice and fire retirement system during the period of such employment.\n 8. Any member may obtain credit for any allowable service:\n (a) For which he made contributions, regardless of whether such\ncontributions were returned to him when he left such service, or\n (b) Rendered by him while not a member of any retirement system that\nis actuarially sound and of which the state or municipality thereof is a\ncontributor,\nprovided he makes the contributions required by this article for such\ncredit and renders at least two years of member service after he last\nbecame a member.\n No credit shall be allowed for service if, but for the member's\nfailure to avail himself of the privilege of transfer within the time\nand in the manner provided in section three hundred forty-three of this\narticle, credit for such service could have been obtained upon transfer\nfrom another retirement system pursuant to such section.\n c. Purchase of previous member service credit.\n 1. A member who has not previously been a member may purchase credit\nat any time for all allowable member service; provided, however, that a\nmember joining the system pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision c of\nsection three hundred forty of this article shall not be permitted to\npurchase credit for, or otherwise be allowed credit for the previous\nservice upon which his retirement or pension from another pension or\nretirement system is or would be based. In order to purchase credit,\nwhich may be purchased pursuant to this paragraph, the member shall pay\ninto the annuity savings fund, either in a lump sum or in installments,\na sum equal to the a
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