Sec. 3. (a) An active member of a regularly organized police or fire department who is:

(1) taken into military service by induction, enlistment, or commission or assigned by the government for war work during a national emergency declared by the president of the United States or during armed hostilities in which the United States is engaged; and

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 36-8-5-3

  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(2) temporarily absent from the department;

is considered to be a continuing member of the department on a temporary leave of absence. The records of the department must show the member in this status.

     (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a member who enlists or reenlists when no emergency or war has been declared.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: subsection (a) formerly 19-1-4-1 part; subsection (b) formerly 19-1-4-9 part.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.54.