Strong v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Police Pension & Retirement Board

¶ 1 We granted certiorari to determine whether, under the facts presented, the defendant/respondent, Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Board (Board), is es-topped from relying on 11 O.S. Supp.2004 § 50-111.1. 1 The clear, explicit and unmistakable language of the statute limits the Board’s disbursal of retirement funds from its retirement program (OPPRS/Retirement Program) to a retiree leaving the system and electing a vested benefit before the later of reaching fifty years old or the date on which the retiree would have had twenty years of uninterrupted service had the employment…