PRINTER'S NO. 829
No. 750 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA (BY REQUEST), FEBRUARY 14, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 14, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 29, 1956 (1955 P.L.1804, No.600),
2 entitled "An act providing for the establishment of police
3 pension funds or pension annuities in certain boroughs, towns
4 and townships, and the regulation and maintenance thereof;
5 providing for an actuary; continuance of existing funds or
6 transfer thereof to funds herein established; prescribing
7 rights of beneficiaries; contributions by members; providing
8 for expenses of administration; continuation of existing
9 authority to provide annuity contracts; credit for military
10 service; refunds; exempting allowances from judicial process;
11 and repealing certain acts," further providing for age
12 qualification for retirement from police force.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of May 29, 1956 (1955
16 P.L.1804, No.600), referred to as the Municipal Police Pension
17 Law, amended October 21, 1965 (P.L.643, No.317), is amended to
18 read:
19 Section 3. Each ordinance or resolution establishing a
20 police pension fund shall prescribe a minimum period of total
21 service in the aggregate of twenty-five years in the same
22 borough, town or township [and shall fix the age of the members
23 of the force at fifty-five years, or, if an actuarial study of
1 the cost shows that such reduction in age is feasible, may fix
2 the age of the members of the force at fifty years], after which
3 [they] members of the force may retire from active duty, and
4 such members as are retired shall be subject to service, from
5 time to time, as a police reserve, in cases of riot, tumult or
6 preservation of the public peace until [unfitted] determined to
7 be unfit for such service, when they may be finally discharged
8 by reason of age or disability.
9 Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar
10 as they are inconsistent with this act.
11 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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