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' 2.62.240 Repayment of Contributions Withdrawn—Reinstated Employment Any former employee who is reinstated in the police or fire department within two years after termination of his or her employment shall be required as a condition of the reemployment to deposit the amount of any withdrawal made under Section 2.62.450, and shall be credited with his or her years of prior service. If reinstatement occurs after two years, the former employee shall come in as a new employee without credit for prior service; and such prior service shall not be considered for any purposes under this uniformed pension plan. { 2.62.300 Contributions Each employee shall be assessed and required to pay into the police and firefighters' retirement fund, created pursuant to this chapter, a sum equal to (1) in the case of an employee for whom an investment account is established under Section 2.62.630.A, five percent of his or her compensation; or (2) in the case of any other employee, five percent of the base salary. An employee described in (2) of the preceding sentence who has contributed for thirty (30) years to this fund shall be excused from any further contributions to the fund. The city, in making up its payroll for members of the police and fire departments, shall be authorized and required to deduct from the compensation due each employee for each payroll period a sum representing five percent of the base salary or the employee's compensation, as applicable, such deduction to be placed in a special fund, to be paid to the treasurer of the board of trustees of the police and firefighters' retirement fund created pursuant to Chapter 2.50. The employee contribution hereunder shall be, within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code, Section 414(h)(2), treated as picked up by the city and therefore treated as employer contributions. Each employee of the police and fire departments shall execute and deliver to the proper official of the city an authorization in proper form for the deduction herein described, and no person shall be employed as a member of the police or fire department unless the employee shall execute such authorization. Any employee of either of such departments refusing to execute such authorization shall be ineligible to receive any of the benefits provided by this chapter or ,,,,,ii, Chapter 2.60 or 2.62. 2.62.400 Normal Service Retirement A member of the uniformed fund may retire after attaining the age of fifty (50) years and after completion of twenty-five (25) years' membership in the uniformed fund. 1