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.