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urn: urn:us-la:rs:11:602
citation: "R.S. 11:602"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 11 › Subtitle II › Chapter 1 › Part VII › Subpart C"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2001, number: 746, section: 1, effective_date: 2001-12-31, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2008, number: 259, section: 1, effective_date: 2008-06-17, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2010, number: 992, section: 1, effective_date: 2011-01-01, role: amendment }
---

# Eligibility for retirement; benefit calculation

A. A member shall be eligible for retirement if he has:

(1) Attained at least twenty-five years of service, regardless of age.

(2) Attained at least ten years of service, at age sixty or thereafter.

B. A member shall receive a maximum retirement allowance equal to three and one-third percent of average compensation for every year of creditable service, not to exceed one hundred percent of the member's average compensation.