(a)If any firefighter or policeman is discharged or if for any other reason leaves his or her employment before he or she becomes entitled to the retirement benefits provided in this part, he or she forfeits his or her rights under this part. But he or she shall be entitled to a refund of all deductions made against his or her salary, without interest, less one-half of all benefits which may have been paid to him or her from the fund. If any such person however, elected or elects upon leaving the service to leave on deposit in the fund the money he or she has theretofore paid into the fund, he or she shall, if reemployment in the fire or police department within six months, be entitled to receive credit for continuous service from the beginning of the service which he or she had rendered
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(a) If any firefighter or policeman is discharged or if for any other reason leaves his or her employment before he or she becomes entitled to the retirement benefits provided in this part, he or she forfeits his or her rights under this part. But he or she shall be entitled to a refund of all deductions made against his or her salary, without interest, less one-half of all benefits which may have been paid to him or her from the fund. If any such person however, elected or elects upon leaving the service to leave on deposit in the fund the money he or she has theretofore paid into the fund, he or she shall, if reemployment in the fire or police department within six months, be entitled to receive credit for continuous service from the beginning of the service which he or she had rendered prior to leaving the service, provided he or she pays all the dues which he or she would have been required to pay had he or she remained a member of the pension fund from the date of his or her withdrawal to the date of his or her reemployment, with interest thereon, at the rate of six percent per annum from the date due until his or her reemployment. If the firefighter or policeman does not repay the fund as above prescribed, he or she may be readmitted to membership in the fund, in which case he or she shall be entitled to credit for services rendered prior to his or her ceasing to be a firefighter or policeman but not for the interim when he or she was out of such service.
(b)
When a member with a vested interest is separated from service, the member shall be entitled to such retirement allowance whether he or she voluntarily separated from service or is dismissed for cause or for any other reason. In the event the member is dismissed for cause or for any other reason, he or she shall be entitled to make applications for and receive the retirement allowances herein above provided for upon his or her given written notice herein mentioned.
(c)
Any member of the pension fund who, upon ceasing to be a firefighter or policeman, withdraws the money which he or she has contributed to the fund, upon reentering the fire or police service, within 30 days, may repay to the fund all the money so withdrawn with interest at the rate of six percent per annum from the date of withdrawal to the date of his or her reemployment, and thereby be readmitted to the membership in the fund with all the credit for his or her prior service. In the event a person who has previously withdrawn the monies he had paid into the fund becomes a firefighter or policeman again and fails to repay the fund all the money withdrawn with interest thereon as above prescribed, he or she shall receive no credit for his or her years of service prior to his or she reentry into the fire or police department, but he or she shall be deemed a new employee and a new member of the fund as of the date of his or her reemployment as a paid firefighter or policeman. Firefighters or policemen absent from the service for a period of two years or more are ineligible to participate in a pension fund other than as a new member.
(d) Any person who is presently employed as a firefighter or policeman on October 1, 1975, who has previously served his or her employment with the fire or police department and withdrawn his or her retirement monies and reentered service as a new member of the fund who desires to reinstate his or her prior service credit may do so, provided that within 90 days after October 1, 1975, he or she repays all the pension monies withdrawn from the fund, with interest at the rate of six percent per annum. If he or she also repays monies that he or she would have paid into the fund during the period of his or her absence from service he or she will be given full continuing service credit from the time of the beginning of his or her previous employment in the fire or police service toward pension benefits under the fund. If, however, he or she repays the monies withdrawn from the fund but does not repay the monies that he or she would have paid during his or her absence from the service, then he or she shall only have credit for service rendered prior to the time he or she left the fire or police service.