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1    AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing
5Section 7-109.3 as follows:
 
6    (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
7    Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
8    (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
9        (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than
10    special deputies, employed on a full time basis in the
11    office of the sheriff.
12        (2) A person who has elected to participate in this
13    Fund under Section 3-109.1 of this Code, and who is
14    employed by a participating municipality to perform police
15    duties.
16        (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time
17    basis by a Forest Preserve District, provided that such
18    officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's law enforcement
19    employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
20    that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's
21    law enforcement employee, only if the board of
22    commissioners of the District have so elected by adoption
23    of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made, may

 

 

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1    not be rescinded.
2        (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund
3    established under Article 3 of this Code who is employed on
4    a full-time basis by a participating municipality or
5    participating instrumentality to perform police duties at
6    an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
7    employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee
8    status for its airport police employees by adoption of an
9    affirmative resolution. Such approval, once given, may not
10    be rescinded.
11        (5) A person employed by a participating municipality
12    with at least 50 full-time firefighters that has not
13    established a fund under Article 4 of this Code and who is
14    employed on a full-time basis by that participating
15    municipality to perform firefighting and EMS duties, but
16    only if the governing authority of the employer has
17    approved sheriff's law enforcement employee status for its
18    firefighting employees by adoption of an affirmative
19    resolution. The resolution may specify that SLEP status be
20    applicable to such employment occurring on or after January
21    1, 2011. Such approval shall be revocable only upon the
22    establishment of an Article 4 fund by such municipality.
23    (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee
24and is granted military leave or authorized leave of absence
25shall receive service credit in that capacity. Sheriff's law
26enforcement employees shall not be entitled to out-of-State

 

 

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1service credit under Section 7-139.
2(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4becoming law.