Louisiana § RS 11:3646 - Retirement with sixteen years active continuous service; amount of pension; service benefit after sixteen years

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§ RS 11:3646. Retirement with sixteen years active continuous service; amount of pension; service benefit after sixteen years

A.  When any officer, member, or employee who was inducted into the police department of the city of New Orleans on or before December 31, 1967 has attained at least sixteen years of active continuous service on the force, he or she shall be eligible to retire from the force, regardless of age, and shall receive as an annuity from the fund forty percent of his or her average compensation during the last year of service immediately preceding the date of retirement.  

B.  If any officer, member, or employee who was inducted into the police department of the city of New Orleans on or before December 31, 1967 and who has attained at least sixteen years of active continuous service on the force, and is therefore eligible to retire under the provisions of Subsection A of this Section, chooses to continue in active service rather than to retire, he shall be entitled to receive, for each year of service in addition to sixteen years up to and including his twentieth year, an additional service benefit equal to two and one-half percent of his average compensation for the last year of service, not to include overtime pay, holiday pay, or court time pay.  

Added by Acts 1956, No. 37, §1.  Amended by Acts 1958, No. 429, §1; Acts 1962, No. 142, §1; Acts 1967, No. 69, §2; Acts 1979, No. 386, §1, eff. January 1, 1980; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2293.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.

Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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