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1984 Maine Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1984)

handle is hein.sag/sagme0012 and id is 1 raw text is: 84-1 JFnuary 9, 1984 Roberta M. Weil Executive Director Maine State Retirement System State House Station #46 Augusta, Maine 04333 Dear Mrs. Weil: You have requested an Attorney Goneral's Opinion as to whether each of four senior staff employees of the Public Utilities Commission appointed by that Commission tinder 1 35 M.R.S.A. § 1 must be a member of the Maine State Retirement System or whether an option exists for each of those four employees as to their membership in the Maine State Retirement System. The four employees referred to are the Public Utilities Commission's Secretary, Director of Finance, Director of Technical Analysis and General Counsel. For the reasons which follow, it is the Opinion of this Department that the employees in question are not requi.red to be members of the Retirement System. Criteria for membership in the Maine State Retirement System (except for employees of participating local districts) are set forth in 5 M.R.S.A. S 1091. Subsoction 1 of 5 M.R.S.A. § 1091 reads as follcws: Any person who shall become an employee shall become a member of the retirement