PRINTER'S NO. 1481
No. 1079 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, ORIE, PIPPY, FONTANA, LOGAN, TARTAGLIONE AND KITCHEN, JANUARY 26, 2006
REFERRED TO FINANCE, JANUARY 26, 2006
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," further providing for 5 employees eligible for retirement allowances. 6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 7 hereby enacts as follows: 8 Section 1. Section 1710(b) of the act of July 28, 1953 9 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code, 10 amended June 18, 1998 (P.L.693, No.89), is amended to read: 11 Section 1710. Employes Eligible for Retirement Allowances.-- 12 * * * 13 (b) Every present or future county employe, other than a 14 member of the police force or the fire department or a fire 15 inspector or a sheriff or deputy sheriff, who has reached the 16 age of sixty years or upwards and who has to his or her credit a 17 period of service of twenty years or more, and every county 18 employe who is a member of the police force or the fire 19 department or a fire inspector, and who shall have been a county
1 employe during a period of twenty or more years and has reached 2 the age of fifty years or upwards shall, upon application to the 3 board, be eligible for retirement from service, and shall 4 thereafter receive, during life, except as hereinafter provided, 5 a retirement allowance plus a service increment if any, in 6 accordance with the provisions of section 1712. Every county 7 officer or employe who is a sheriff, deputy sheriff, prison 8 guard, corrections officer at a county juvenile detention 9 facility or probation officer who shall have been a county 10 officer or employe during a period of twenty or more years and 11 has reached the age of fifty-five years or upward, shall, upon 12 application to the board, be eligible for retirement from 13 service and shall thereafter receive, during life, except as 14 hereafter provided, a retirement allowance in accordance with 15 section 1712. The time spent in the employ of the county or 16 county institution district need not necessarily have been 17 continuous: Provided, That when any county employe has twenty or 18 more years service, not necessarily continuous, and has not 19 reached the age of sixty years or upwards, and shall be 20 separated from the service of the county or county institution 21 district by reason of no cause or act of his or her own, upon 22 application to the board he or she shall thereafter receive, 23 during life, except as hereinafter provided, a retirement 24 allowance plus a service increment if any, in accordance with 25 the provisions of section 1713. The aforesaid retirement 26 allowance plus a service increment if any, shall be subject to a 27 suspension thereof in accordance with the provisions of 28 subsection (h) of this section 1710 and subsection (c) of 29 section 1712. 30 * * * 20060S1079B1481 - 2 -
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. L27L16RLE/20060S1079B1481 - 3 -