PRINTER'S NO. 1550
No. 1373 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY RHODES, CESSAR, IRVIS, ITKIN, PISTELLA, SEVENTY,
MURPHY, MICHLOVIC, AUSTIN, KNEPPER, FISHER, ZORD AND GAMBLE,
MAY 22, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MAY 23, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
3 and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto," changing the
5 superannuation retirement age and years of service for prison
6 guards and matrons at jails, workhouses and prisons.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 1710, act of July 28,
10 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the "Second Class County Code,"
11 amended December 30, 1974 (P.L.1154, No.367), is amended to
12 read:
13 Section 1710. Employes Eligible for Retirement Allowances.--
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15 (b) Every present or future county employe, other than a
16 member of the police force or the fire department or a fire
17 inspector or any prison guard or matron at any jail, workhouse
18 or prison, who has reached the age of sixty years or upwards and
19 who shall have been a county employe during a period of twenty
1 or more years, and every county employe who is a member of the
2 police force or the fire department or a fire inspector or any
3 prison guard or matron at any jail, workhouse or prison, and who
4 shall have been a county employe during a period of twenty or
5 more years and has reached the age of fifty years or upward,
6 shall, upon application to the board, be retired from service,
7 and shall thereafter receive, during life, except as hereinafter
8 provided, a retirement allowance plus a service increment if
9 any, in accordance with the provisions of section 1712. The time
10 spent in the employ of the county or county institution district
11 need not necessarily have been continuous: Provided, That when
12 any county employe has twenty or more years service, not
13 necessarily continuous, and has reached the age of fifty years
14 or upwards, and shall be separated from the service of the
15 county or county institution district by reason of no cause or
16 act of his or her own, upon application to the board he or she
17 shall thereafter receive, during life, except as hereinafter
18 provided, a retirement allowance plus a service increment if
19 any, in accordance with the provisions of section 1712. The
20 aforesaid retirement allowance plus a service increment if any,
21 shall be subject to a suspension thereof in accordance with the
22 provisions of subsection (h) of this section 1710 and subsection
23 (c) of section 1712.
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25 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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