2021 Indiana Code
Title 36. Local Government
Article 8. Public Safety
Chapter 5. Police and Fire Leaves of Absence
36-8-5-3. Military Service; Temporary Leave of Absence
Sec. 3. (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.
