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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.

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