§ 36-8-5-3 — Military service; temporary leave of absence

Indiana § 36-8-5-3

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 36: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Art. 8: PUBLIC SAFETY
• Ch. 5: Police and Fire Leaves of Absence

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(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
(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.