§ 26. Compiling employment periods for purposes of continuous service.  


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  • Whenever it is now provided by law that a firefighter has been employed, whether continuously or discontinuously, for the required total period, he or she shall be entitled to add together such periods of discontinuous service to secure the benefits now granted for continuous service of a like period; provided, however, that before such firefighter may take advantage of this provision, if he or she shall have withdrawn the contributions or any part thereof theretofore paid by him or her into the Firefighters' Relief and Pension Fund, he or she shall return to said fund such sum so withdrawn, and shall do so within a period of six (6) months next succeeding the beginning of his or her last period of employment, or, if he or she be now in such last period, shall repay said sum within one (1) year after the effective date of this act.

(Laws of Fla. 1955, Ch. 31158, § 1; Laws of Fla., Ch. 00-468, § 22)