Laird v. State of Nevada Public Employees Retirement Board

OPINION

The appellants, employees of the State of Nevada, seek free military service credit under the Public Employees Retirement System. The Public Employees Retirement Board ruled that they were not entitled to free credit and the district court affirmed. We agree.

THE FACTS

Appellants are state employees who left public employment in the mid to late 1950’s and early 1960’s to serve in the armed forces of the United States. All of them returned to state employment after their discharge.

Appellants predicate their claims for free credit upon 1941 Nev. Stats, chap. 34, §§ 1-2, at 37-39, codified…