A member’s service is treated as uninterrupted during qualifying illness or military service, dues are waived while absent for military service, and certain disability or death benefits must be paid.
§3805. Military service credit A member's service period shall not be considered as having been interrupted during the period that the member may not be employed by the various electrical departments because of illness, injury, or other physical infirmity or disability; nor shall it be considered as interrupted during the period that a member may be in actual military service of his country or state in time of war, peril, insurrection, calamity, or other cause that may call the member from private life to military service, and the dues of the member while absent from the various electrical departments during the military service shall be waived. Provided, also, that if a member of the various electrical departments is called into the Armed Forces of the United States, and as a result of his service he acquires a total disability and receives a pension from the federal government, the pension fund herein will pay him per month, an amount which when added to the government payment, is sufficient to equal two-thirds of his monthly salary but not to exceed the additional amount which he is permitted to receive by the provisions of the government pension act, averaged over a period of the best five years, or if he is killed and his widow or dependent children under eighteen years of age receive a pension from the federal government, the Pension and Relief Fund shall pay his widow if living or dependent children, if no widow, until they reach age eighteen, an amount not to exceed forty percent of his salary averaged over the best five years of employment in the various electrical departments, provided that the widow's pension shall cease if she remarries. Designated from Acts 1956, No. 283, §19 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014. NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).