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KRS § 95.565 Credit under pension system established under KRS 95.520 for time spent in Armed Forces.

Eligible police or fire department members who left for the U.S. Armed Forces, were honorably discharged, and return may get the same pension or benefits, subject to World War II and reinstatement timing limits.

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§ 95.565KRS § 95.565 Credit under pension system established under KRS 95.520 for time spent in Armed Forces.Amendment

Eligible police or fire department members who left for the U.S. Armed Forces, were honorably discharged, and return may get the same pension or benefits, subject to World War II and reinstatement timing limits.

95.565 Credit under pension system established under KRS 95.520 for time spent in Armed Forces. Any member of the police or fire department of a city with a pension fund established under KRS 95.520, who, while a member of the police or fire department, entered the Armed Forces of the United States, and who was honorably discharged therefrom, shall upon his return to that police or fire department be entitled to the same pension or benefits provided by KRS 95.560, and his beneficiaries shall be entitled to the same pension under KRS 95.550, as if the member had remained on active duty with that police or fire department, and his time served in the Armed Forces shall be added to his previous service and shall be construed for purposes of eligibility for pensions or benefits, either for himself or his beneficiaries, as a part and continuation of his consecutive years of service with that police or fire department. This section shall apply only to those members who served in World War II, who apply for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after the date on which the member first received or could have received an honorable discharge, and shall not apply to those members reenlisting in the Armed Forces of the United States. Effective: January 1, 2015 History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 126, effective January 1, 2015. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 71. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 76, sec. 1.
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