(1) An employee of the Maine Technical College System electing the option provided in this paragraph may also elect to purchase service credit under the Maine State Retirement System for all or part of the time that the employee participated in the defined contribution plan. The election must be made in writing to the Maine State Retirement System no later than January 1, 2003. Purchase of service credit under this subparagraph consists of payment of an amount that, together with regular interest as defined in Title 5, section 17001, subsection 31 on that amount, is the actuarial equivalent, at the effective date of the retirement benefit, of the portion of the retirement benefit based on the additional creditable service.

Sec. 8. Effective date. That section of this Act that amends the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 12722, subsection 8, paragraph B takes effect 90 days after adjournment of the Second Regular Session of the 120th Legislature.

Sec. 9. 25 MRSA §2801-B, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 559, Pt. KK, §1; c. 604, §21; and c. 697, Pt. B, §1, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

1.__Exemption.__The training standards and requirements of this chapter do not apply to a person defined by this chapter as a law enforcement officer who is:

A.__An employee of the Department of Corrections with a duty to perform probation functions or to perform intensive supervision functions;

B.__An agent or a representative of the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands whose law enforcement powers are limited to those specified in Title 12, section 1806;

C.__An agent or a representative of the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Forestry whose law enforcement powers are limited to those specified by Title 12, section 8901, subsection 3;

E.__A harbor master;

F.__A municipal shellfish conservation warden;