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. . Ordinance No. 2 1004 . Section 3. Each person who is an employee of the City of La Porte on the 31st day of December, 1974, and ~o at said date is a member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System and who holds in said System an effective prior service . . . certificate granted by reason of service performed for this City prior to its participation in said System, shall be allowed and is hereby granted (upon the terms and conditions prescribed by Section XV of Article 6243H, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes as amended by Chapter 371, Acts of the Regular Session, 61st Legislature) a "Special Prior Service Credit" in an amount equivalent to the accumulation at interest, as provided in said Act, of a series of monthly payments of five percent (5%) of the members "average prior service compensation" for the number of months of prior service certified to in such member's prior service certificate. The special prior service credit herein provided for shall be in addition to the prior service credit heretofore allowed such member. Section 4. Any person who was employed by the City of La Porte prior to December 31, 1974, whose membership in Texas Municipal Retirement System by reason of service has not terminated, and who OR said date is absent from service in the employment of the City, shall be entitled to antecedent service credit and to special prior service credit in the amount (if any) he would have been allowed under Sections 1 and 2 hereof had he been in active service on said date, provided such person again becomes an employee of the City before termination of his said membership in Texas Municipal Retirement System and within five (5) years from the 31st day of December, 1974, and provided such person thereupon continues as an employee of a participating department of the City of La Porte for a period of five (5) consecu~ive years.