Title 5, Police, Firefighters, Medical Examiner, and Forensic Sciences.

(a) If any member: (1) dies in the performance of duty and the Mayor determines that: (A) the member’s death was the sole and direct result of a personal injury sustained while performing such duty; (B) his death was not caused by his willful misconduct or by his intention to bri…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any member who is an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia who completes 5 years of police or fire service and who is thereafter separated from his department…

(a) Each month the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall determine the per centum change in the price index. On the basis of this determination, and effective the 1st day of the 3rd month which begins after the price index shall have equaled the rise of at least 3% for 3 consec…

Subsections (b) and (c) of § 5-718 shall apply: (1) To any increase after the effective date of § 5-718 in annuities payable under § 5-716, except that with respect to the 1st date after the effective date of § 5-718 on which the Mayor is to determine a per centum change for the …

The Mayor is authorized to pay a sum not exceeding $300 in any 1 case to defray the funeral expenses of any deceased member dying while in the service thereof.

(a) The Mayor shall consider all cases for the retirement of members and all applications for annuities under this subchapter subject to review and final determination by the District of Columbia Retirement Board. In each case of retirement of a member the Mayor shall certify in …

(a)(1) In order to carry out his responsibilities under this subchapter with respect to retirement and disability determinations, and related functions, the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall establish a Police and Firefighters Retirement and Relief Board (hereinafter in thi…

(a) Each annuity is stated as an annual amount, one-twelfth of which, fixed at the nearest dollar, accrues monthly (except that an annuity accrues over any portion of a month after the commencing date of such annuity but before the 1st day of the next month and is payable for suc…

(a) Benefits and contributions under the provisions of this subchapter shall not be computed with reference to any compensation that exceeds that maximum dollar amount permitted by section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code, as adjusted for increases in the cost of living. (…

The additional compensation provided for in § 5-544.01, shall be included for purposes of retirement annuity calculations pursuant to this subchapter for those officers and members who complete 25 years of active service prior to retirement.

(a) Distributions shall begin no later than the member’s required beginning date, as defined in section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and shall be made in accordance with all other requirements of section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The provi…

Forfeitures in the District of Columbia Police Officers and Fire Fighters’ Retirement Fund established by § 1-712 shall not be applied to increase the annuity of a person, but rather, shall be applied to pay administrative expenses, if and as directed by the District of Columbia …

Except as provided in § 1-529.01, none of the money mentioned in this subchapter, including any assets of the District of Columbia Police Officers and Fire Fighters’ Retirement Fund, shall be assignable, either in law or equity, or be subject to execution of levy by attachment, g…

(a) The Mayor is hereby vested with full power and authority to delegate from time to time to his designated agent or agents any of the functions vested in him by this subchapter. (b) The Mayor is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as the Mayor may deem necessary…

Nothing in subchapter I of this chapter shall be deemed to reduce the relief or retirement compensation to which any person is entitled on the effective date of such sections and the rights of such persons and their survivors shall continue in the same manner and to the same exte…

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated from revenues of the United States such sums as are necessary to reimburse the District of Columbia, on a monthly basis, for benefit payments made from revenues of the District of Columbia to or for federal employees and to or for th…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person entitled to receive any benefit under subchapter I of this chapter on account of death incurred, an injury received, or disease contracted, or an injury or disease aggravated, in the performance of duty shall be entitled, beca…

Commencing with July 1, 1935, and thereafter, all moneys on June 14, 1935, required to be deposited to the credit of the Policemen and Firemen’s Relief Fund, District of Columbia, under § 5-706(a), shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes of the District of Columbia and deposited …

In determining eligibility for the amount of benefits from the Policemen and Firemen’s Relief Fund, District of Columbia, or the District of Columbia Police Officers and Fire Fighters’ Retirement Fund (established by § 1-712), each member of the Metropolitan Police Department of …

The District of Columbia Retirement Board is hereby empowered to determine and fix the amount of the pension relief allowance heretofore and hereafter granted to any person under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter.

All widows and children of deceased members of the Police Department or of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia receiving relief under the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter shall be entitled to receive relief to the same extent and in the same manner as is pro…

(a) Notwithstanding § 5-743, each individual heretofore or hereafter retired from active service and entitled to receive a pension relief allowance or retirement compensation under the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter shall be entitled to receive, without making applica…

In computing the pension relief allowance or retirement compensation of any such individual retired before July 1, 1953, as Major and Superintendent of Police, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Fire Department,…

(a) Each widow or child who, on or after September 1, 1962, was receiving or is now receiving or shall hereafter be entitled to receive relief or annuity by reason of service in the Metropolitan Police force, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the United States Park…

(a) Except for a disability annuitant, a police officer retired from the Metropolitan Police Department shall be eligible for rehire at the discretion of the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department as a fully sworn temporary full-time or temporary part-time police officer wit…

(a)(1) Except for disability annuitants, police officers retired from the Metropolitan Police force shall be eligible for rehire at the discretion of the Superintendent of the D.C. Public Schools as security personnel of the D.C. Public Schools without jeopardy to the retirement …

For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Conditional Retirement” means that a member has retired from the Metropolitan Police Department while under disciplinary investigation for serious misconduct. (2) “Disciplinary Investigation” means any official investigation by the Metropoli…

The Metropolitan Police Department shall complete a disciplinary investigation, including issuing findings pursuant to the general orders, of a member regardless of whether that member resigns or retires while under investigation.

(a) If a member of the Metropolitan Police Department retires or resigns while under disciplinary investigation, that member shall be deemed to be in conditional retirement until the disciplinary investigation is completed and factual findings are made. (b) A member who is in con…

(a) The Metropolitan Police Department shall set the level of discipline for a member in conditional retirement as if he or she continued to be a member of the Metropolitan Police Department. (b) A member in conditional retirement who would have received suspension as discipline …

Penalties assessed against a member in conditional retirement as provided in § 5-804, shall be treated as a debt owed to the District of Columbia government, pursuant to § 1-629.03, and may be collected by the District of Columbia government, pursuant to § 1-629.04, or by any oth…

A member in conditional retirement may challenge the imposition of penalties imposed by §§ 5-804 and 5-805 in an administrative proceeding before the District of Columbia Office of Employee Appeals, pursuant to Chapter 5 of Title 2.

This chapter shall apply upon adoption of regulations by the Chief of Police to implement this chapter. The Chief of Police shall adopt such regulations within 60 days of October 4, 2000.

For the official recognition of outstanding acts in the line of duty by the members of the Police, Fire, and Corrections Departments of the District of Columbia there shall be awarded annually 1 gold medal and 1 or more silver medals, appropriately inscribed, to those members of …

When promotions are being made in the Departments, the holders of such medals shall be preferred to other members of said Departments, other things being equal.

To provide for the cost of such medals there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually such sum as the Mayor of the District of Columbia may deem necessary for the purpose.

Any trial board of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia shall have the power to issue subpoenas in the name of the Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to compel witnesses to appear and testify and/or to produce…

Any wilful false swearing on the part of any witness before any trial board mentioned in § 5-1001 as to any material fact shall be deemed perjury and shall be punished in the manner prescribed by law for such offense.

If any witness, having been personally summoned, shall neglect or refuse to obey the subpoena issued in § 5-1001, then in that event the chairman of the trial board may report that fact to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or 1 of the judges thereof and said Court, o…

Each member of the trial boards shall take an oath to be administered by the Chief Clerk of the Police Department for the faithful and impartial performance of the duties of the office.

After July 1, 1902, the several provisions of subchapter I of this chapter shall be applicable to and enforceable in any investigation or examination of any municipal matter by the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the Council of the District of Columbia with respect to func…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no corrective or adverse action against any sworn member or civilian employee of the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department shall be commenced more than 90 days, not including Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays,…

The Chief of Police and the Fire Chief shall, not later than January 15 of each calendar year, beginning in 2006, deliver a report to the Mayor and the Council concerning misconduct and grievances filed by or against members of their respective departments. The report shall conta…

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Chief” means the Chief of the Department. (2) “Conditional retirement” means that a member has retired or resigned from the Department while under disciplinary investigation for serious misconduct. (3) “Department” means the Fir…

The Department shall complete a disciplinary investigation, including issuing findings pursuant to the general orders, of a member regardless of whether that member resigns or retires while under investigation.

(a) If a member of the Department retires or resigns while under disciplinary investigation, that member shall be deemed to be in conditional retirement until the disciplinary investigation is completed and factual findings are made. (b) A member who is in conditional retirement …