(A) Age and service. All full-time police employees of the borough shall participate in the Borough Police Pension Plan and Fund from the date of employment with the borough police force and shall be eligible to retire upon 25 years of service in the borough or upon attaining the age of 50 years, whichever shall be later. Such members as are retired shall be subject to service, from time to time, as a police reserve in cases of riot, tumult, or preservation of the public peace until unfitted for such service, when they may be finally discharged by reason of age or disability.
(B) Military service. Any member of the police force who has been a regularly appointed employee of the borough for a period of at least six months and who thereafter shall enter into the military service of the United States shall have credited to his or her employment record for pension or retirement benefits all of the time spent by him or her in such military service, if such employee returns or has heretofore returned to his or her employment within six months after his or her separation from service. This, however, shall not apply to any period of voluntary military service in the absence of a national emergency or state of war.
(C) Ineligibility for military service credits. Any member of the police force shall be eligible to receive service credit for intervening military service as provided in division (B) above; provided, that he or she is not entitled to receive, eligible to now or in the future or is receiving retirement benefits for such service under a retirement system administered and wholly or partially paid for by any other governmental agency with the exception of a member eligible to receive or receiving military retirement pay earned by a combination of active duty and nonactive duty with a reserve or national guard component of the armed forces, which retirement pay is payable only upon the attainment of a specified age and period of service under 10 U.S.C. Chapter 67 (relating to retired pay for nonregular service).
(Prior Code, Ch. 1, Pt. 6, § 606) (Ord. 2-2001, passed 7-2-2001)