PRINTER'S NO. 1373
No. 1092 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA, M. WHITE, KUKOVICH, MADIGAN, COSTA, ORIE,
SCHWARTZ, LAVALLE, TARTAGLIONE AND BOSCOLA, OCTOBER 9, 2001
REFERRED TO FINANCE, OCTOBER 9, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 29, 1956 (1955 P.L.1804, No.600),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the establishment
3 of police pension funds or pension annuities in certain
4 boroughs, towns and townships; authorizing the establishment
5 of police pension funds or pension annuities by regional
6 police departments; providing for the regulation and
7 maintenance of police pension funds or pension annuities;
8 providing for an actuary; continuance of existing funds or
9 transfer thereof to funds herein established; prescribing
10 rights of beneficiaries; contributions by members; providing
11 for expenses of administration; continuation of existing
12 authority to provide annuity contracts; credit for military
13 service; refunds; exempting allowances from judicial process;
14 and repealing certain acts," further providing for municipal
15 police pensions.
16 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
17 hereby enacts as follows:
18 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of May 29, 1956 (1955
19 P.L.1804, No.600), referred to as the Municipal Police Pension
20 Law, amended May 10, 1996 (P.L.162, No.33), is amended to read:
21 Section 3. Each ordinance or resolution establishing a
22 police pension fund shall prescribe a minimum period of total
23 service in the aggregate of twenty-five years and may prescribe
24 a lower minimum period of total service in the aggregate of not
1 less than twenty years, in the same borough, town, township or
2 regional police department and shall fix the age of the members
3 of the force at fifty-five years, or, if an actuarial study of
4 the cost shows that such reduction in age is feasible, may fix
5 the age of the members of the force at not less than fifty
6 years, after which [they] members of the force may retire from
7 active duty, and such members as are retired shall be subject to
8 service, from time to time, as a police reserve, in cases of
9 riot, tumult or preservation of the public peace until
10 [unfitted] determined to be unfit for such service, when they
11 may be finally discharged by reason of age or disability.
12 Section 2. Section 5(f) of the act, amended February 18,
13 1998 (P.L.158, No.24), is amended to read:
14 Section 5. * * *
15 (f) Any borough, town, township or regional police
16 department may establish and pay length of service increments
17 for years of service beyond [twenty-five years] the prescribed
18 minimum period of total service after which members of the force
19 may retire from active duty for each completed year of service
20 in excess of [twenty-five years, not to exceed one hundred
21 dollars ($100)] the prescribed minimum period. Such length of
22 service increments may be paid in addition to other monthly
23 pension or retirement allowances[.], but may not exceed twenty-
24 five per centum of a member's monthly average salary computed
25 pursuant to subsection (c).
26 * * *
27 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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