[§88-63]  Credit for unused sick leave. A public employee who retires or leaves government service in good standingwith sixty days or more of unused sick leave shall be entitled to additionalservice credit in the retirement system as follows:

(1)  An employee with sixty days of unused sick leaveto the employee's credit shall have the employee's years of service increasedby three months for the purpose of computing the employee's retirementallowance.

(2)  For each additional twenty days or major fractionthereof of unused sick leave in excess of sixty days that the employee has tothe employee's credit the employee shall have the employee's years of serviceincreased by one month for the purpose of computing the employee's retirementallowance.

The allowance on service retirement of section88-74 and the service benefit limitation therein shall not apply to retirementallowances which exceed such limitations by virtue of the application of thissection in the computation of retirement allowances and no reduction in suchretirement allowances shall be made on account of such limitations. [L 1975, c177, §1; gen ch 1985]

 

Attorney General Opinions

 

  Section applied to different fact situations.  Att. Gen. Op.82-5.