Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 23651. Membership of fund

(1) All persons who shall, after the effective date of this act, become employees of the Bureau of Police including all substitute uniformed employees of the Bureau of Police: Provided, That membership under this sub-section shall exist solely by virtue of the provisions of this sub-section and without the making of any application.

(2) Each present employee of the Bureau of Police, as classified by part (1) of this section, who at the effective date of this act, is a member of any Employees' Pension Fund, created under the act of May twenty-eight, one thousand nine hundred and  1 fifteen (Pamphlet Laws five hundred ninety-six),  2 if, and only if, he elects to withdraw and resign from the said Employees' Pension Fund and to apply for membership in the fund created by this act.  3

(3) Each person, who at the effective date of this act, is a member of any other association, corporation or fund in the same city, constituted for and having in charge, the distribution of police pension funds, but to whom a pension has not yet been granted by said other association, corporation, or fund, if, and only if, he waives his right to receive any other pension than a death benefit from the said other association, corporation, or fund, and applies for membership in the fund created by this act, and assigns to the fund created by this act, whatever amount of his contributions to the said other association, corporation, or fund, of which he is a member at the effective date of this act, he is permitted to withdraw from the said association, corporation, or fund by the laws and rules thereof now, or hereafter, in effect.

(4) Each member of any other association, corporation, or fund in the same city, existing or created for purposes similar to the purposes of the fund created by this act, to whom, prior to the effective date of this act, a pension has been granted by the said other association, corporation, or fund, and who has not forfeited his right to receive the said pension, whether at the effective date of this act he is receiving the said pension or not, if, and only if, he waives his right to receive from the said other association, corporation, or fund any other pension than a death benefit, and applies for membership in the fund created by this act. The waiver, in such case, is only to take effect, as of the date that the member first receives pension payments from the fund created by this act.