§88-43 Persons ineligible for membership; optional membership. The board of trustees may deny membership to any class of part-time employees or persons engaged in temporary employment of three months or less, or it may, in its discretion, make optional with persons in such classes their individual entrance into membership; provided that no officer or employee entering service after January 1, 1928, who is entitled to become a member of any pension system under Part III shall be entitled to become a member of the system.

Elective officers shall be eligible for membership and their individual entrance into membership shall be at their option. [L 1925, c 55, §3(3); am imp L 1927, c 251, §§1, 2, 5; am imp L 1929, c 190, §1; RL 1935, pt of §7922; RL 1945, pt of §703; am L 1955, c 141, §1(c); RL 1955, §6-25; am L 1961, c 181, §2; HRS §88-43; am L 1969, c 110, pt of §1]