Employees of the Communications Division and Waterways Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety who are members of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System shall cease accruing benefits in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System and shall commence accruing benefits under the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System on July 1, 1981. On January 1, 1982, the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System shall transfer to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System the actual amount contributed to the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System by the state and by each Communications Division and Waterways Patrol Division employee transferring to the Oklahoma Law Enforcement RetirementSystem and the retirement records of those transferring employees. Service accrued by employees of the Communications Division and Waterways Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety under the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System shall be treated as credited service under the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System. Provided, however, that the cumulative total of credited service for such transferring employee shall not exceed the total time said employee could have accrued if his entire employment with the State of Oklahoma had been as an employee of the Department of Public Safety.
Laws 1981, c. 227, § 6, operative July 1, 1981.