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92_SB0707
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1 AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5 changing Section 5-214 as follows:
6 (40 ILCS 5/5-214) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 5-214)
7 Sec. 5-214. Credit for other service. Any participant
8 in this Fund (other than a member of the fire department of
9 the city) who has rendered service as a member of the police
10 department of the city for a period of 3 years or more (15
11 years or more in the case of paragraph (e) of this Section)
12 is entitled to credit for the various purposes of this
13 Article for service rendered prior to becoming a member or
14 subsequent thereto for the following periods:
15 (a) While on leave of absence from the police
16 department assigned or detailed to investigative,
17 protective, security or police work for the park district
18 of the city, the department of the Port of Chicago or the
19 sanitary district in which the city is located.
20 (b) As a temporary police officer in the city or
21 while serving in the office of the mayor or in the office
22 of the corporation counsel, as a member of the city
23 council of the city, as an employee of the Policemen's
24 Annuity and Benefit Fund created by this Article, as the
25 head of an organization whose membership consists of
26 members of the police department, the Public Vehicle
27 License Commission and the board of election
28 commissioners of the city.
29 (c) While performing safety or investigative work
30 for the county in which such city is principally located
31 or for the State of Illinois or for the federal
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1 government, on leave of absence from the department of
2 police, or while performing investigative work for the
3 department as a civilian employee of the department.
4 (d) While on leave of absence from the police
5 department of the city and serving as the chief of police
6 of a police department outside the city.
7 (e) Up to 7 years during which the applicant
8 performed corrections work for the county in which the
9 city is principally located or for the State of Illinois
10 or for the federal government.
11 No credit shall be granted in this Fund, however, for
12 this service if the policeman has credit therefor in any
13 other annuity and benefit fund, or unless he contributes to
14 this Fund the amount he would have contributed with interest
15 had he remained an active member of the police department in
16 the position he occupied as a result of a civil service
17 competitive examination, certification and appointment by the
18 Civil Service Board; or in the case of a city operating under
19 the provisions of a personnel ordinance the position he
20 occupied as a result of a personnel ordinance competitive
21 examination certification and appointment under the authority
22 of a Municipal Personnel ordinance.
23 Concurrently with such contributions, the city shall
24 contribute the amounts provided by this Article. No credit
25 shall be allowed for any period of time for which
26 contributions by the policeman have not been paid. The
27 period of service rendered by such policeman prior to the
28 date he became a member of the police department of the city
29 or while detailed, assigned or on leave of absence and
30 employed in any of the departments set forth hereinabove in
31 this Section for which such policeman has contributed to this
32 Fund shall be credited to him as service for all the purposes
33 of this Article, except that he shall not have any of the
34 rights conferred by the provisions of Sections 5-127 and
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1 5-162 of this Article.
2 The changes in this Section made by Public Act 86-273
3 shall apply to members of the Fund who have not begun
4 receiving a pension under this Article on August 23, 1989,
5 without regard to whether employment is terminated before
6 that date.
7 (Source: P.A. 86-273; 87-1265.)
8 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
9 Section 8.25 as follows:
10 (30 ILCS 805/8.25 new)
11 Sec. 8.25. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6
12 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
13 for the implementation of any mandate created by this
14 amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.
15 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.