PRINTER'S NO. 699
No. 647 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY LOGAN, FONTANA, COSTA, LAVALLE AND WASHINGTON,
MARCH 22, 2007
REFERRED TO FINANCE, MARCH 22, 2007
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 county employee 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.--
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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 or county
16 detective, who has reached the age of sixty years or upwards and
17 who has to his or her credit a period of service of twenty years
18 or more, and every county employe who is a member of the police
19 force or the fire department or is a fire inspector or a county
1 detective, and who shall have been a county employe during a
2 period of twenty or more years and has reached the age of fifty
3 years or upwards shall, upon application to the board, be
4 eligible for retirement from service, and shall thereafter
5 receive, during life, except as hereinafter provided, a
6 retirement allowance plus a service increment if any, in
7 accordance with the provisions of section 1712. Every county
8 officer or employe who is a sheriff, deputy sheriff, prison
9 guard or probation officer who shall have been a county officer
10 or employe during a period of twenty or more years and has
11 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.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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