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                                                       PRINTER'S NO. 254

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 249 Session of 2003


        INTRODUCED BY O'PAKE, KUKOVICH, MUSTO, SCHWARTZ, WOZNIAK, ORIE,
           TARTAGLIONE, MOWERY, KITCHEN, LOGAN, STOUT, GREENLEAF,
           BOSCOLA AND KASUNIC, FEBRUARY 7, 2003

        REFERRED TO FINANCE, FEBRUARY 7, 2003

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of February 1, 1974 (P.L.34, No.15), entitled
     2     "An act creating a Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System
     3     for the payment of retirement allowances to officers,
     4     employes, firemen and police of political subdivisions and
     5     municipal authorities and of institutions supported and
     6     maintained by political subdivisions and municipal government
     7     associations and providing for the administration of the same
     8     by a board composed of the State Treasurer and others
     9     appointed by the Governor; imposing certain duties on the
    10     Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Board and the actuary
    11     thereof; providing the procedure whereby political
    12     subdivisions and municipal authorities may join such system,
    13     and imposing certain liabilities and obligations on such
    14     political subdivisions and municipal authorities in
    15     connection therewith, and as to certain existing retirement
    16     and pension systems, and upon officers, employes, firemen and
    17     police of such political subdivisions, institutions supported
    18     and maintained by political subdivisions, and upon municipal
    19     authorities; providing for the continuation of certain
    20     municipal retirement systems now administered by the
    21     Commonwealth; providing certain exemptions from taxation,
    22     execution, attachment, levy and sale and providing for the
    23     repeal of certain related acts," further providing for
    24     disability retirement of police officers.

    25     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    26  hereby enacts as follows:
    27     Section 1.  Section 212(a) of the act of February 1, 1974
    28  (P.L.34, No.15), known as the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement


     1  Law, amended May 17, 1980 (P.L.135, No.50), is amended to read:
     2     Section 212.  Disability Retirement.--(a)  After a
     3  contributor has had ten or more years of total service, he may,
     4  upon application or on the application of one acting in his
     5  behalf, or upon application of a head of the department of the
     6  municipality by which he is employed, be retired by the board on
     7  a disability allowance if he is under superannuation retirement
     8  age, and on a superannuation retirement allowance if he has
     9  attained or passed such age, if the physician designated by the
    10  board, after medical examination of the contributor made at the
    11  place of residence of the contributor or at a place mutually
    12  agreed upon, shall certify to the board that the contributor is
    13  unable to engage in any gainful employment, or in the case of a
    14  police officer that he is unable to perform the regular and
    15  routine duties of that office, and that said contributor ought
    16  to be retired. When the disability of a contributor is
    17  determined to be service-connected, as defined in this act, no
    18  minimum period of service shall be required for eligibility.
    19  Application filing requirements shall be identical to those
    20  outlined in subsection (a) of section 208.
    21     * * *
    22     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.






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