Every police officer or other employee in the Department of Police hired prior to January 1, 1988 and not, therefore, subject to the terms and conditions of the City of Johnstown New Police Pension Plan, Ordinance 4442 of 1988 as amended, Chapter 289 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1986 who has served continuously for twenty years shall be entitled to be retired on his or her own request on a pension. However, a police officer or other employee in the Department who was employed as of June 4, 1968, shall be entitled to be retired on his or her own request on a pension after he or she has served continuously for twenty years, without regard to his or her age. The pension shall date from the time the police officer or employee filed his or her application with Council. However, Council may retire any police officer or member of the Department who has served fifteen years or more, or who has completed at least ten years of continuous service for a disability incurred while in the line of duty, if, in its opinion, the officer or employee is physically or mentally incapacitated from performing his or her duty in the Department. Further, the age of sixty-five years is hereby established as the age at which retirement from duty is mandatory for all members of the Department.
(Ord. 3943. Passed 4-18-72; Ord. 5355. Passed 6-14-23.)