Opinion No. 80-175 (1980) Ag

The Attorney General is in receipt of your request for an official opinion wherein you ask, in effect, the following question: Where a member of the Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System has exercised options under prior law to purchase as creditable years of service years in the military service and/or years taught in the school systems of another state, may such member have those non-Oklahoma teaching years purchased credited to his/her years of service for purposes of retirement at age fifty-eight (58) with thirty (30) years of service notwithstanding the provisions of S.B. 490,…