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• • • 5. (b) The membership of any person in the plan shall cease upon: Termination of service as an employee prior to the completion of five years of creditable service; or Retirement; or Death. When membership ceases, except in the case of retirement or of death under circumstances calling for the payment of benefits hereunder, an employee shall thereafter lose all right to any retirement allowance or benefits under this article arising from service prior to the date of such cessation of membership except for any deferred retirement benefits such employee might be entitled to receive, provided that if any such employee should subsequently again be in service, the provisions of this subsection shall be inapplicable to his previous period or periods of creditable service. SECTION 2-219.4. Service retirement. (a) Any member who is in service at his normal retirement date may then retire, or may then be retired by his appointing authority, upon written notification to the commission made by the member or by his appointing authority setting forth at what date the retirement is to become effective; provided, that such e ffective date shall be after the member's last day of service and shall not be more than ninety days prior to the filing of such notification. (b) No member shall be permitted to continue in service after his normal retirement date except with the approval of his appointing authority. The commissioner of the revenue, city treasurer, city sheriff, clerk of the circuit court, and commonwealth's attorney, who by definition under section 2 -219.1 have no appointing authority, may continue in service in such offices after their normal retirement date, provided that their average final compensation and creditable service shall both be fixed as of such normal retirement date and shall not be increased on account of such continued service thereafter. Any member who continues in service beyond his normal retirement date may retire, or may be retired by his appointing authority, at any time thereafter, upon written notification to the commission, made by the member or by his appointing authority, setting forth at what date the retirement is to become effective; provided, that such effective date shall be after the member's last day of service and shall not be more than ninety days prior to the filing of such notification. (c) Any member who is in service and who has completed five or more years of creditable service may retire at any time within the five -year period immediately preceding his normal retirement date upon written notification to the commission, made