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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 is
11 entitled to credit for the various purposes of this Article
12 for service rendered prior to becoming a member or subsequent
13 thereto for the following periods:
14 (a) While on leave of absence from the police
15 department assigned or detailed to investigative,
16 protective, security or police work for the park district
17 of the city, the department of the Port of Chicago or the
18 sanitary district in which the city is located.
19 (b) As a temporary police officer in the city or
20 while serving in the office of the mayor or in the office
21 of the corporation counsel, as a member of the city
22 council of the city, as an employee of the Policemen's
23 Annuity and Benefit Fund created by this Article, as the
24 head of an organization whose membership consists of
25 members of the police department, the Public Vehicle
26 License Commission and the board of election
27 commissioners of the city.
28 (c) While performing safety or investigative work
29 for the county in which such city is principally located
30 or for the State of Illinois or for the federal
31 government, on leave of absence from the department of
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1 police, or while performing investigative work for the
2 department as a civilian employee of the department.
3 (d) While on leave of absence from the police
4 department of the city and serving as the chief of police
5 of a police department outside the city.
6 (e) While an employee of the Chicago Fire
7 Department during any portion of the years 1975 through
8 1979, provided that the policeman did not participate in
9 any other annuity and benefit fund established under this
10 Code with respect to that employment and credit is not
11 available to the policeman for that employment under
12 Section 5-213 or any other provision of this Article.
13 No credit shall be granted in this fund, however, for
14 this service if the policeman has credit therefor in any
15 other annuity and benefit fund, or unless he contributes to
16 this fund the amount he would have contributed with interest
17 had he remained an active member of the police department in
18 the position he occupied as a result of a civil service
19 competitive examination, certification and appointment by the
20 Civil Service Board; or in the case of a city operating under
21 the provisions of a personnel ordinance the position he
22 occupied as a result of a personnel ordinance competitive
23 examination certification and appointment under the authority
24 of a Municipal Personnel ordinance.
25 Concurrently with such contributions, the city shall
26 contribute the amounts provided by this Article. No credit
27 shall be allowed for any period of time for which
28 contributions by the policeman have not been paid. The
29 period of service rendered by such policeman prior to the
30 date he became a member of the police department of the city
31 or while detailed, assigned or on leave of absence and
32 employed in any of the departments set forth hereinabove in
33 this Section for which such policeman has contributed to this
34 fund shall be credited to him as service for all the purposes
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1 of this Article, except that he shall not have any of the
2 rights conferred by the provisions of Sections 5-127 and
3 5-162 of this Article.
4 The changes in this Section made by Public Act 86-273
5 shall apply to members of the fund who have not begun
6 receiving a pension under this Article on August 23, 1989,
7 without regard to whether employment is terminated before
8 that date.
9 (Source: P.A. 86-273; 87-1265.)
10 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
11 Section 8.27 as follows:
12 (30 ILCS 805/8.27 new)
13 Sec. 8.27. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6
14 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
15 for the implementation of any mandate created by this
16 amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
17 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.