Bill Text: PA HB1791 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In employees' retirement system, defining "county detective" and further providing for county employee retirement allowances.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-07-26 - Referred to URBAN AFFAIRS [HB1791 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1791-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2300
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1791 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY VULAKOVICH, D. COSTA, GEIST, HEFFLEY, HESS, KNOWLES, KORTZ, SWANGER AND TURZAI, JULY 26, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, JULY 26, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
changing the laws relating thereto," in employees' retirement
system, defining "county detective" and further providing for
county employee retirement allowances.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1701 of the act of July 28, 1953
(P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code, is
amended by adding a definition to read:
Section 1701. Definitions.--The following words and phrases
as used in this article shall be construed to have the following
meaning:
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"County detective," a detective that is employed by a
district attorney's office.
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Section 2. Section 1710(b) of the act, amended June 18, 1998
(P.L.693, No.89), is amended to read:
Section 1710. Employes Eligible for Retirement Allowances.--
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(b) Every present or future county employe, other than a
member of the police force or the fire department or a fire
inspector [or a], sheriff [or], deputy sheriff or county
detective, who has reached the age of sixty years or upwards and
who has to his or her credit a period of service of twenty years
or more, and every county employe who is a member of the police
force or the fire department or is a fire inspector or a county
detective, and who shall have been a county employe during a
period of twenty or more years and has reached the age of fifty
years or upwards shall, upon application to the board, be
eligible for retirement from service, and shall thereafter
receive, during life, except as hereinafter provided, a
retirement allowance plus a service increment if any, in
accordance with the provisions of section 1712. Every county
officer or employe who is a sheriff, deputy sheriff, prison
guard or probation officer who shall have been a county officer
or employe during a period of twenty or more years and has
reached the age of fifty-five years or upward, shall, upon
application to the board, be eligible for retirement from
service and shall thereafter receive, during life, except as
hereafter provided, a retirement allowance in accordance with
section 1712. The time spent in the employ of the county or
county institution district need not necessarily have been
continuous: Provided, That when any county employe has twenty or
more years service, not necessarily continuous, and has not
reached the age of sixty years or upwards, and shall be
separated from the service of the county or county institution
district by reason of no cause or act of his or her own, upon
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application to the board he or she shall thereafter receive,
during life, except as hereinafter provided, a retirement
allowance plus a service increment if any, in accordance with
the provisions of section 1713. The aforesaid retirement
allowance plus a service increment if any, shall be subject to a
suspension thereof in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (h) of this section 1710 and subsection (c) of
section 1712.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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