PRINTER'S NO. 380
No. 336 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, ITKIN, OLASZ, SHANER, READSHAW, TRELLO,
RAMOS, PISTELLA, GEIST, COWELL, DERMODY, GIGLIOTTI, KAISER,
LAUGHLIN, LEVDANSKY, MARKOSEK, MAYERNIK, MICHLOVIC, PETRONE,
PRESTON, ROBINSON, VAN HORNE, WALKO, STEVENSON, ORIE, PETTIT
AND HABAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 10, 1997
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," providing for retirement
5 eligibility.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 1710(a) and (b) of the act of July 28,
9 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code,
10 amended February 9, 1984 (P.L.12, No.6), May 9, 1984 (P.L.261,
11 No.61) and December 4, 1992 (P.L.776, No.121), are amended to
12 read:
13 Section 1710. Employes Eligible for Retirement Allowances.--
14 (a) Every county employe [who was initially hired on or prior
15 to the effective date of this amendatory act,] who has reached
16 the age of [sixty] fifty-five years or upwards and who has to
17 his or her credit a period of service of eight years, but less
18 than twenty years, [or every county employe who was hired after
1 the effective date of this amendatory act, who has reached the
2 age of sixty-five years or upwards and who has to his or her
3 credit a period of service of ten years, but less than twenty
4 years] shall, upon application to the board, be eligible for
5 retirement from service, and shall thereafter receive, during
6 life, except as hereinafter provided, a retirement allowance
7 computed on a service period of twenty (20) years which shall
8 equal one twentieth (1/20) of such amount as he or she may be
9 eligible to receive in accordance with the provisions of
10 subsection (a) of section 1712, for each year's service which
11 such county employe may have to his or her credit during the
12 aforesaid period of time. The time spent in the employ of the
13 county or county institution district need not necessarily have
14 been continuous. The aforesaid retirement allowance shall be
15 subject to a suspension thereof in accordance with the
16 provisions of subsection (h) of this section 1710 and subsection
17 (c) of section 1712.
18 (b) Every county employe, other than a member of the police
19 force or the fire department or a fire inspector or a sheriff or
20 deputy sheriff, [who was initially hired on or prior to the
21 effective date of this amendatory act,] who has reached the age
22 of [sixty] fifty-five years or upwards and who has to his or her
23 credit a period of service of eight years, but less than twenty
24 years, [or every county employe, other than a member of the
25 police or the fire department or a fire inspector, who was hired
26 after the effective date of this amendatory act, who has reached
27 the age of sixty-five years or upwards, and who has to his or
28 her credit a period of service of ten years, but less than
29 twenty years,] and every county employe who is a member of the
30 police force or the fire department or a fire inspector, and who
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1 shall have been a county employe during a period of twenty or
2 more years and has reached the age of fifty years or upwards
3 shall, upon application to the board, be eligible for retirement
4 from service, and shall thereafter receive, during life, except
5 as hereinafter provided, a retirement allowance plus a service
6 increment if any, in accordance with the provisions of section
7 1712. Every county officer or employe who is a sheriff, deputy
8 sheriff or prison guard who shall have been a county officer or
9 employe during a period of twenty or more years and has reached
10 the age of fifty-five years or upward, shall, upon application
11 to the board, be eligible for retirement from service and shall
12 thereafter receive, during life, except as hereafter provided, a
13 retirement allowance in accordance with section 1712. The time
14 spent in the employ of the county or county institution district
15 need not necessarily have been continuous: Provided, That when
16 any county employe has twenty or more years service, not
17 necessarily continuous, and has reached the age of fifty years
18 or upwards, and shall be separated from the service of the
19 county or county institution district by reason of no cause or
20 act of his or her own, upon application to the board he or she
21 shall thereafter receive, during life, except as hereinafter
22 provided, a retirement allowance plus a service increment if
23 any, in accordance with the provisions of section 1712. The
24 aforesaid retirement allowance plus a service increment if any,
25 shall be subject to a suspension thereof in accordance with the
26 provisions of subsection (h) of this section 1710 and subsection
27 (c) of section 1712.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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