§3234. Military service credit

A. Time served in the military service of the United States to fulfill military obligation shall be credited as "time served" for retirement benefits. Any voluntary reenlistment time shall not be credited and, upon such reenlistment, all rights hereunder shall be forfeited. Obligatory time served in military service must interrupt the members employment with the fire department in order to be credited.

B. "Active service in the fire department" shall also include any activity while off duty in an attempt toward saving life or property.

C. Time served in the active fire service of the city of Houma prior to July 2, 1973, shall be credited to a member who is presently in active service for purposes of benefits.

D. Certain members of the fire department in active service on July 2, 1972, will be unable to complete twenty years of service prior to the age of sixty-five. Notwithstanding such fact, such members who are in active service, and their beneficiaries on July 2, 1972, shall be entitled to benefits upon retirement at age sixty-five according to the following formula: The years of actual service upon retirement, rounded up to the next full year, shall be used as a numerator of a fraction with twenty as the denominator and this fraction shall be multiplied by the benefits which the member or his survivors would have otherwise been entitled to under this Part and the result shall constitute the benefits due the member or his survivors.

Designated from Acts 1973, No. 139, §16, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.