53 Pa. Stat. § 23613

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32

Section 23613 - Classification and monthly payments; cost-of-living allowance

(a) Beneficiaries under the fund, who retire on or after January one, one thousand nine hundred fifty-six and before the effective date of this amending act, shall be entitled to receive from the fund, per month, an amount equalling fifty per centum of the average monthly wages earned by the contributor as an employe of the bureau of fire of the city during any five calendar years of service or the last sixty months immediately preceding retirement. Beneficiaries under the fund, who retire on or after the effective date of this amending act shall be entitled to receive from the fund, per month, an amount equalling fifty per centum of the average monthly wages earned by the contributor as an employe of the bureau of fire of the city during any three calendar years of service or the last thirty-six months immediately preceding retirement. If any employe has not been employed in the bureau of fire for at least five years but is otherwise entitled to a pension, such employe's pension shall equal not less than fifty per centum of the amount which would constitute the average monthly wages received by the beneficiary as an employe of the bureau of fire.

(b) Beneficiaries under the fund in any case shall be entitled to minimum monthly payments in the amounts indicated in the following table:

Classification		Composed of	Monthly Payments
I.	Chief.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$247.00
	Superintendent.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
II.	Deputy Chiefs.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$235.00
	Deputy Superintendents.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
III.	Battalion Chiefs.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$223.00
	Chief of River Patrol.....................................	Bureau of Fire
	Chief Inspectors.....................................	Division of Fire Prevention
	Chief Wiring Inspectors.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
IV.	Training School Instructors.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$217.00
V.	Captains.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$217.00
	Assistant Engineers.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Supervisors of Construction.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Fire Alarm Operators.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
VI.	Lieutenants.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$211.00
	Engineers.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$199.00
	Pumpmen.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$199.00
VII.	Drivers.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$199.00
	Electric Wiring Inspectors.....................................	Bureau of Building Inspection
VIII.	Hose and Laddermen.....................................	Bureau of Fire	$199.00
	Aides.....................................	Bureau of Fire
	Assistant Engineers.....................................	Bureau of Fire
	Fire Alarm Box Inspectors.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Police Box Inspectors.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Instrument Repairmen.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Battery Men.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Line Foreman.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Linemen.....................................	Bureau of Electricity
	Inspector.....................................	Bureau of Fire
	Inspector.....................................	Division of Fire Prevention

(c) Beneficiaries under the fund who have retired prior to December 31, 1965, shall be paid an additional sum of fifteen dollars ($15) per month.

(d) The governing body of a city of the second class may grant to beneficiaries under the fund, regardless of the date of retirement whether prior to or after the effective date of this act, an annual cost-of-living allowance not to exceed the per centum change in the price index from November of the year preceding the most recent cost-of-living adjustment as taken on November one in each year times the beneficiaries pension allowance, excluding cost-of-living adjustments. No pension shall be paid at a lower rate than that which the beneficiary would be entitled to receive excluding the cost-of-living allowance.

The cost-of-living percentage is the average quarterly calendar year change of the Consumer Price Index (all items--United States city average) published monthly by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, using as a base of one hundred the years 1957-1959.

53 P.S. § 23613

1933, May 25, P.L. 1050, § 12. Amended 1937, July 1, P.L. 2635, § 1; 1945, May 18, P.L. 691, § 2; 1949, May 13, P.L. 1328, No. 396, § 3; 1951, May 22, P.L. 328, § 2; 1955, June 28, P.L. 206, No. 65, § 3; 1956, Feb. 1, P.L. (1955) 981, § 1; 1956, May 24, P.L. (1955) 1681, No. 570, § 1; 1957, May 15, P.L. 138, § 1; 1959, Oct. 2, P.L. 1020, § 3; 1965, Aug. 10, P.L. 312, § 1; 1965, Nov. 9, P.L. 679, § 7; 1967, Aug. 11, P.L. 215, § 1; 1968, Dec. 12, P.L. 1207, No. 379, § 1; 1969, June 10, P.L. 71, No. 22, § 1; 1972, March 3, P.L. 100, No. 36, § 1, imd. effective; 1974, Oct. 10, P.L. 730, No. 247, § 7, imd. effective.