§ 11:3637 — Police cadets and police aides defined; eligibility for membership; salary deductions paid into fund

A. Police cadets and police aides shall include those persons employed by the New Orleans Department of Police who are between the ages of seventeen and nineteen years inclusively, and who have successfully met all of the requirements for the position of police officer or police recruit, other than age, and who, upon reaching the minimum age requirement for police officer or police recruit, and after continuous employment with the New Orleans Department of Police will be automatically promoted to the rank of police officer or police recruit with no additional testing being required for said promotion.
B. Effective September 9, 1977, any police cadet and police aide employed by the New Orleans Department of Police shall be eligible for membership in and shall become a member of the police pension fund of the city of New Orleans as a condition of employment and shall pay into the pension fund the salary deductions as provided in R.S. 11:3636, provided that in order to qualify for retirement benefits under this fund, the member must have twenty years of creditable service as a commissioned police officer and have attained the age of fifty years.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1977, No. 289, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2286.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.