Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 4520. Present employees exempted

(a) All members (except superintendent of police) of the county police force upon the fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-three, shall continue to hold their positions, and shall not be required to take any examination under the provisions of this article  1 except such as may be required for promotion. Any member of a county police force who was dismissed from such force between the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred forty-three, and the fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-three, for any reason except those as specified in section 1511 of this act,  2 shall be reinstated to his former position in the police force without any examination whatsoever.

(a.1) All members (except the fire chief) of the county fire department and all fire inspectors upon the effective date of this amending act shall continue to hold their positions and shall not be required to take any examination under the provisions of this article except such as may be required for promotion.

(b) Each member of the county police force and every fireman or fire inspector now or hereafter serving in the armed forces of the United States during any war or any police action in which the United States is engaged shall, upon his honorable discharge from such service and return to such police force or as a fireman or fire inspector, be reinstated in the force in a position of equal grade to that which he held immediately before entering the armed forces of the United States. He shall continue to hold such position, and shall not be required to take any examination under the provisions of this article except such as may be required for promotion.