§ 446. Credit for service. a. Part-time service.\n 1. A member of a retirement system who is subject to the provisions of\nthis article who works less than full time, which for the purposes of\nthis article shall mean less than thirty hours a week in the cae of a\nmember who has a specified work-week, shall receive retirement credit\nfor such service in accordance with the following provisions:\n (a) A member employed on an hourly basis who works for five hundred or\nmore hours a year and who is on the payroll for a minimum of five months\nin the year shall receive credit on a prorated basis, but in no event\nshall less than six hours constitute a full day's retirement credit;\n (b) A member employed on a per diem basis who works at least sixty\ndays in a year and who is on the payroll for a minimum of five months in\nthe year shall receive retirement credit on a day-for-day basis, but in\nno event shall less than six hours constitute a full day's retirement\ncredit;\n (c) If the annual salary of a member paid on a basis other than per\ndiem or per hour would be less than the product of the state's minimum\nwage during such period and two thousand hours, the presumption shall be\nthat such a member is a part-time employee and any retirement credit\ngranted shall be prorated; provided, however, such a member shall not\nreceive greater credit than a member working on a per diem basis.\n 2. Except for retirement credit for military service as specified in\nsubdivision d of this section, a member shall not receive retirement\ncredit for any day that he is not on the payroll of the state, a\npolitical subdivision thereof, or a participating employer.\nNotwithstanding any other provisions of this section, with respect to\nmembers of the New York state employees' retirement system, teachers as\ndefined in section one hundred thirty-six of the civil service law,\nemployed full time for the school year, shall be deemed on the payroll\nof the state, for twelve months in crediting retirement service credit\nfor service rendered. For the purposes of this paragraph the comptroller\nshall define school year by regulation.\n 3. The membership of any member who is subject to the provisions of\nthis subdivision a, or to the provisions of any rule or regulation\npromulgated and approved in accordance with the provisions of\nsubdivision f of this section, shall be continued and shall not be\nterminated for so long as such member is actually in service.\n b. Previous service.\n A member of a retirement system who is subject to the provisions of\nthis article shall be eligible to obtain retirement credit for previous\nservice if retirement credit had previously been granted for such\nservice or if 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 this chapter, at the time\nsuch service was rendered, if the individual had been a member of such\nretirement system and the member has rendered a minimum of two years of\ncredited service after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-three;\nprovided, however, retirement credit may be granted for service which\npredates the date of entry into the retirement system if such service is\notherwise creditable and was rendered by an employee during which\nemployment he was ineligible to join a public retirement system.\n * b-1. Employer pick-up of contributions in respect of previous\nservice. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member of the\nNew York city teachers' retirement system eligible to purchase credit\nfor previous service with a public employer pursuant to subdivision b of\nthis section, may elect to purchase any or all of such service by\nexecuting a periodic payroll deduction agreement. Such agreement shall\nset forth the amount of previous service being purchased, the estimated\ntotal cost of such service credit, and the number of payroll periods in\nwhich s
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