Sec. 1. (a) This chapter applies to pension benefits for members of police departments hired before May 1, 1977, in second and third class cities, and in towns that have established a board of metropolitan police commissioners.

     (b) A police officer with twenty (20) years of service is covered by this chapter and not by IC 36-8-8 if the police officer:

(1) was hired before May 1, 1977;

(2) did not convert under IC 19-1-17.8-7 (repealed September 1, 1981); and

(3) is rehired after April 30, 1977, by the same employer.

     (c) A police officer is covered by this chapter and not by IC 36-8-8 if the police officer:

(1) was hired before May 1, 1977;

(2) did not convert under IC 19-1-17.8-7 (repealed September 1, 1981);

(3) was rehired after April 30, 1977, but before February 1, 1979; and

(4) was made, before February 1, 1979, a member of a 1925 fund.

     (d) A police matron is covered by this chapter and not by IC 5-10.3 or IC 36-8-8 if the police matron:

(1) was hired before May 1, 1977;

(2) is a member of a police department in a second or third class city; and

(3) is employed as a police matron on March 31, 1996.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: subsection (a) formerly 19-1-24-1 part; 19-1-47-1 part; subsections (b), (c) formerly 19-1-17.8-5 part.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.55. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.44, SEC.57; P.L.3-1990, SEC.129; P.L.236-1996, SEC.1; P.L.127-2017, SEC.241.