Whitaker v. Utah State Retirement Board

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

¶ 1 This case presents the interesting question of whether an individual concurrently employed full-time by two governmental entities may accrue toward retirement more than one year of service credit—i.e., two years of service credit, one for each job—in any given year. We conclude that he cannot.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 Norman 0. Whitaker wants to retire. He is currently employed “full-time” by both the State of Utah and West Point City. 1 He began working for the State on April 15, 1989, and for the City on January 1, 1994. Before working for the City, he worked for the Davis and…