If you have received a refund of your contributions from CJRS or from the Uniform Judicial, Solicitorial or Clerks of Superior Court Retirement Systems as they existed before January 1, 1985, you may be eligible to pay an amount to purchase the amount of creditable service which you lost when you received your refund. 

Before you are eligible to pay for this service, you must return to service as a member of CJRS and contribute for a period of five years.

Your active duty in the United States military up to the time you were first eligible for a discharge that is not dishonorable counts as creditable service at no cost to you if you were a member of CJRS when you entered active duty, and: 

• You return to employment as a member of CJRS within two years after your earliest discharge (under this provision, your employer is required to pay the employer and employee contributions for the full period you were in active duty). 
   
• You return to employment as a member of CJRS at any time after discharge and complete at least 10 additional years of service as a contributing member. If you are not allowed credit for military service according to the rules shown on the previous page, you may be able to buy credit for your periods of active duty. 

You must have contributed to CJRS for five years. Your cost will be equal to the full actuarial liabilities created from the additional credit purchased. You must furnish a copy of your service record to CJRS to receive any credit for military service. If your military service is creditable in another retirement system, generally you will not be eligible to purchase credit in CJRS.

f you have performed out-of-state public employment, you may be eligible to buy credit for that service. Credit that can be purchased must have been: 

• Service with another state or governmental subdivision of a state 
   
• Full-time service which would be allowable under the laws governing CJRS 
   
• Service as a judge, solicitor or district attorney, or clerk of Superior Court 

You must have contributed to CJRS for five years. Your cost will be equal to the full actuarial liabilities created from the additional credit purchased. If your service is creditable in another retirement system, your ability to buy credit in CJRS will be restricted. If you are eligible, you may buy credit at the rate of one year of out-of-state service for each two years of service under CJRS.

 Any service that was forfeited due to a felony conviction cannot be repurchased.

Some other types of service for which you may receive credit are:

• Service as a judge, solicitor or district attorney, or clerk of Superior Court which is not otherwise provided for in other service credit laws.
   
• Service as a judge of any lawfully constituted court of this state inferior to the Superior Court, excluding time served as a justice of the peace, as a magistrate, or as a mayor’s court judge. 
   
• Service as a state employee or teacher, or employee of a local government, as defined by law. 

This service must be certified and purchased prior to retirement with the member paying the full actuarial cost.

We will accept pre-tax money from an eligible retirement plan or an eligible IRA via rollover or in-service, plan-to-plan transfer to purchase creditable service. For more information and instructions, see Form 398 (Using a Distribution of Tax-Sheltered Savings to Purchase Retirement Credit), available in ORBIT.