West Virginia Code § 5-10-15a

Retirement credited service through member's use, as option, of accrued
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annual or sick leave days.
(a) Any member accruing annual leave or sick leave days may, after June 27, 1988, elect to
use the days at the time of retirement to acquire additional credited service in this
retirement system. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the accrued days
shall be applied on the basis of two workdays credit granted for each one daey of such
accrued annual or sick leave days, with each month of retirement service credit to equal
twenty workdays and with any remainder of ten workdays or more to cronstitute a full month
of additional credit and any remainder of less than ten workdays to be dropped and not used,
notwithstanding any provisions of the code to the contrary, including section twelve, article
sixteen of this chapter. Such credited service shall be allowed and not deemed to controvert
the requirement of no more than twelve months credited sertvice in any year's period.
(b) For those persons who first become members of the retirement system on or after July 1,
2015, accrued annual or sick days may not be applied to acquire additional credited service.

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