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The purchase shall be accomplished by and upon the transfer of assets to the political subdivision’s plan from the Virginia Retirement System as provided in the agreement.B\n\nAny political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the “transferor’s plan”) may enter into an agreement with any other political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the “transferee’s plan”) to permit any vested member of the transferor’s plan, upon entering service in a covered position and filing a written application with the transferee’s plan, to purchase service credit, of an amount to be determined by the governing authority of the transferee’s plan, in the transferee’s plan. The purchase shall be accomplished by and upon the transfer of assets to the transferee’s plan from the transferor’s plan as provided in the agreement.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":276712,"text":"Any political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System may enter into an agreement with the Virginia Retirement System to permit any vested member of the Virginia Retirement System, upon entering service in a covered position and filing a written application with the political subdivision’s plan, to purchase service credit, of an amount to be determined by the governing authority of the political subdivision’s plan, in the political subdivision’s plan. The purchase shall be accomplished by and upon the transfer of assets to the political subdivision’s plan from the Virginia Retirement System as provided in the agreement.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":276713,"text":"Any political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the “transferor’s plan”) may enter into an agreement with any other political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the “transferee’s plan”) to permit any vested member of the transferor’s plan, upon entering service in a covered position and filing a written application with the transferee’s plan, to purchase service credit, of an amount to be determined by the governing authority of the transferee’s plan, in the transferee’s plan. 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This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 939<\/a> and 990<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":236291,"object_type":"law","relational_id":77134,"identifier":"51.1-801.1","token":"51.1\/8\/1\/51.1-801.1","url":"\/51.1-801.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/51.1-801.1\/","token":"51.1\/8\/1\/51.1-801.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Portability of service credit between certain political subdivisions of the Commonwealth and the Virginia Retirement System or certain other political subdivisions of the Commonwealth","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 51.1-801.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> Any political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System may enter into an agreement with the Virginia Retirement System to permit any vested member of the Virginia Retirement System, upon entering service in a covered position and filing a written application with the political subdivision’s plan, to purchase service credit, of an amount to be determined by the governing authority of the political subdivision’s plan, in the political subdivision’s plan. The purchase shall be accomplished by and upon the transfer of assets<\/span> to the political subdivision’s plan from the Virginia Retirement System as provided in the agreement. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Any political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the “transferor’s plan”) may enter into an agreement with any other political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the “transferee’s plan”) to permit any vested member of the transferor’s plan, upon entering service in a covered position and filing a written application with the transferee’s plan, to purchase service credit, of an amount to be determined by the governing authority of the transferee’s plan, in the transferee’s plan. The purchase shall be accomplished by and upon the transfer of assets<\/span> to the transferee’s plan from the transferor’s plan as provided in the agreement. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPORTABILITY OF SERVICE CREDIT BETWEEN CERTAIN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE\nCOMMONWEALTH AND THE VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEM OR CERTAIN OTHER POLITICAL\nSUBDIVISIONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH (\u00a7 51.1-801.1)\n\nA. Any political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit\nplan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System may enter into\nan agreement with the Virginia Retirement System to permit any vested member of\nthe Virginia Retirement System, upon entering service in a covered position and\nfiling a written application with the political subdivision’s plan, to\npurchase service credit, of an amount to be determined by the governing\nauthority of the political subdivision’s plan, in the political\nsubdivision’s plan. The purchase shall be accomplished by and upon the\ntransfer of assets to the political subdivision’s plan from the Virginia\nRetirement System as provided in the agreement.\n\nB. Any political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit\nplan that is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the\n“transferor’s plan”) may enter into an agreement with any\nother political subdivision of the Commonwealth which has a defined benefit plan\nthat is not supplemental to the Virginia Retirement System (the\n“transferee’s plan”) to permit any vested member of the\ntransferor’s plan, upon entering service in a covered position and filing\na written application with the transferee’s plan, to purchase service\ncredit, of an amount to be determined by the governing authority of the\ntransferee’s plan, in the transferee’s plan. The purchase shall be\naccomplished by and upon the transfer of assets to the transferee’s plan\nfrom the transferor’s plan as provided in the agreement.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, cc. 939, 990.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}