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| 1 | AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 7-109.3 as follows:
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| 6 | (40 ILCS 5/7-109.3) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-109.3)
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| 7 | Sec. 7-109.3. "Sheriff's Law Enforcement Employees".
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| 8 | (a) "Sheriff's law enforcement employee" or "SLEP" means:
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| 9 | (1) A county sheriff and all deputies, other than | ||||||
| 10 | special deputies,
employed on a full time basis in the | ||||||
| 11 | office of the sheriff.
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| 12 | (2) A person who has elected to participate in this | ||||||
| 13 | Fund under Section
3-109.1 of this Code, and who is | ||||||
| 14 | employed by a participating municipality
to perform police | ||||||
| 15 | duties.
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| 16 | (3) A law enforcement officer employed on a full time | ||||||
| 17 | basis by a Forest
Preserve District, provided that such | ||||||
| 18 | officer shall be deemed a "sheriff's
law enforcement | ||||||
| 19 | employee" for the purposes of this Article, and service in
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| 20 | that capacity shall be deemed to be service as a sheriff's | ||||||
| 21 | law enforcement
employee, only if the board of | ||||||
| 22 | commissioners of the District have so
elected by adoption | ||||||
| 23 | of an affirmative resolution. Such election, once made,
may | ||||||
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| 1 | not be rescinded.
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| 2 | (4) A person not eligible to participate in a fund | ||||||
| 3 | established under
Article 3 of this Code who is employed on | ||||||
| 4 | a full-time basis by a
participating municipality or | ||||||
| 5 | participating instrumentality to perform
police duties at | ||||||
| 6 | an airport, but only if the governing authority of the
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| 7 | employer has approved sheriff's law enforcement employee | ||||||
| 8 | status for its
airport police employees by adoption of an | ||||||
| 9 | affirmative resolution. Such
approval, once given, may not | ||||||
| 10 | be rescinded.
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| 11 | (5) A person who (i) is employed by a participating | ||||||
| 12 | municipality that has both 30 or more full-time police | ||||||
| 13 | officers and 50 or more full-time firefighters and has not | ||||||
| 14 | established a fund under
Article 3 or Article 4 of this | ||||||
| 15 | Code and (ii) is employed on a full-time basis by that
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| 16 | participating municipality to perform
police duties or | ||||||
| 17 | firefighting and EMS duties; but only if the governing | ||||||
| 18 | authority of that municipality has approved sheriff's law | ||||||
| 19 | enforcement employee status for its
police officer or | ||||||
| 20 | firefighter employees by adoption of an affirmative | ||||||
| 21 | resolution. The resolution must specify that SLEP status | ||||||
| 22 | shall be applicable to such employment occurring on or | ||||||
| 23 | after January 1, 2011. Such resolution shall be | ||||||
| 24 | irrevocable, but shall automatically terminate upon the | ||||||
| 25 | establishment of an Article 3 or 4 fund by the | ||||||
| 26 | municipality. | ||||||
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| 1 | (b) An employee who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee | ||||||
| 2 | and is granted
military leave or authorized leave of absence | ||||||
| 3 | shall receive service credit in
that capacity. Sheriff's law | ||||||
| 4 | enforcement employees shall not be entitled to
out-of-State | ||||||
| 5 | service credit under Section 7-139.
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| 6 | (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
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| 7 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 8 | becoming law.
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