Section 11:1345.2 - Application; definitionsTerms not specifically defined in this Section shall have the meanings provided in R.S. 11:1301 unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context. For purposes of this Part:
(1) "Average compensation" means the average annual earned compensation of a member for the sixty highest months of successive employment, or for the highest sixty successive joined months of employment where interruption of service occurred; however, average compensation for part-time employees who do not use sixty months of full-time employment for average compensation purposes shall be based on the base pay the part-time employee would have received had he been employed on a full-time basis. The earnings to be considered for the thirteenth through the twenty-fourth month shall not exceed one hundred fifteen percent of the earnings of the first through the twelfth month. The earnings to be considered for the twenty-fifth through the thirty-sixth month shall not exceed one hundred fifteen percent of the earnings of the thirteenth through the twenty-fourth month. The earnings to be considered for the thirty-seventh through the forty-eighth month shall not exceed one hundred fifteen percent of the earnings of the twenty-fifth through the thirty-sixth month. The earnings for the final twelve months shall not exceed one hundred fifteen percent of the earnings of the thirty-seventh through the forty-eighth month. The limitations on the computation of average compensation contained in this Paragraph shall not apply to any twelve-month period during which compensation increased by more than fifteen percent over the previous twelve-month period solely because of an increase in compensation by a uniform systemwide increase adopted by the state Department of Civil Service and approved by the governor or because of a pay adjustment enacted by the legislature.(2) "Member" or "members" shall include persons who would be eligible for system membership pursuant to R.S. 11:1305 but whose first employment making them eligible for membership in one of the state systems occurred on or after January 1, 2011.(3) "Plan" means the New State Police Retirement Plan created by this Subpart.(4) "System" means the Louisiana State Police Retirement System.La. Consolidated Public Retirement § 11:1345.2
Acts 2010, No. 992, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 227, §1. Acts 2010, No. 992, §1, eff. 1/1/2011; Acts 2012, No. 227, §1.