(a) An active member of a regularly organized police or fire department who is:

1. (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. (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.