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63 P.S. § 4531 COUNTY EMPLOYEES
By figuredlaw92997956, May 31 2017 02:46AM
63 P.S. § 4531. Employees of jail and workhouses disabled by violence; salaries and expenses to be paid Every guard, matron, nurse or other employe who comes in contact with inmates of any jail or workhouse,
who is incapacitated as a result of violence by an inmate while in the performance of his duties, shall be paid by the county by which they are employed their full rate of salary as fixed by the salary board until
the disability arising therefrom has ceased, but the period of such salary payments by the county shall not exceed the period during which such employe is entitled to compensation for the injury, received under the
provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. All medical and hospital bills incurred in connection with any such injuries shall be paid by such county. All benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law which shall be received or collected by any such employe during the period he has received salary for temporary disability shall be paid over to the county and into the treasury thereof. If any such payment or payments shall not be so made by such employe, the amount so directed to be paid the county shall be deducted from any salary which shall then or thereafter become due and owing to such employe.
Act 1953-230, P.L. 723, § 1531, approved July 28, 1953, eff. Aug. 1, 1953.
Act 2009-33
By figuredlaw92997956, May 7 2017 02:06AM
61 Pa.C.S. § 1101. Benefits to injured employees of State correctional institutions.
(a) General rule. — An employee of a State correctional institution who is injured during the course of
that employment by an act of an inmate or by any person who has been committed to the State
correctional institution by any court of the Commonwealth or by any provision of the act of July 9, 1976
(P.L.817, No.143), known as the Mental Health Procedures Act, shall be paid by the Commonwealth the
employee’s full salary until the disability arising from the injury no longer prevents the employee’s return as an employee of the department at a salary equal to that earned by the employee at the time of the injury.
(b) Medical and hospital expenses. —All medical and hospital expenses incurred in connection with an injury described in subsection (a) shall be paid by the Commonwealth until the disability arising from the injury no longer prevents the employee’s return as an employee of the department at a salary equal to that earned by the employee at the time of the injury.
(c) Workers’ compensation. — During the time salary for an injury described in subsection (a) shall be
paid by the Commonwealth, any workers’ compensation received or collected for the period shall be turned over to the Commonwealth and paid into the General Fund. If such payment is not made, the amount due the Commonwealth shall be deducted from any salary then or thereafter becoming due and owing to the employee.
(d) Survivor benefits.
(1) The surviving spouse and minor dependents of an employee who dies within one year as a result of an
injury described in subsection (a) shall be paid benefits equal to 50% of the full salary of the deceased
(i) When a surviving spouse and minor dependents not in the custody of the surviving spouse are
entitled to payments, 50% of the payments shall be paid to the surviving spouse and 50% to the
(ii) In every case, the amount payable to minor dependents shall be divided equally among them and
be paid to the persons or institutions having custody of them.
(i) In the case of a surviving spouse or a surviving spouse with minor dependents in the custody
of the surviving spouse, the benefits shall terminate when the surviving spouse remarries.
(ii) In the case of minor dependents, except when in the custody of a remarried surviving spouse,
the benefits shall terminate when all of the minor dependents become 18 years of age.
(iii) Neither a surviving spouse nor minor dependents shall receive any benefits under this section
while receiving benefits under the Social Security Act (49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.).
(4) The benefits provided under this subsection shall be reduced by the amount of any workers’
compensation benefits received or collected by the surviving spouse or minor dependents because of
(5) Payments for the benefit of minor dependents shall be made to the person having legal custody of
(e) Effect of injury on leave of absence. —No absence from duty of any State employee to whom this
section applies by reason of any injury described in subsection (a) shall in any manner be deducted from
any period of leave allowed the employee by law or by regulation.
Act 2009-33 (S.B. 112), P.L. 147, § 7, approved Aug. 11, 2009, eff. in 60 days.
By figuredlaw92997956, May 7 2017 02:00AM
53 P.S. § 637. Enforcement officer disability benefits
(a) Be it enacted, That:
(1) any member of the State Police Force,
(2) any enforcement officer or investigator employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board;
(3) the parole agents, enforcement officers and investigators of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
(4) Capitol Police officers;
(5) correction employes employed by the Department of Corrections, whose principal duty is the care,
custody and control of inmates;
(6) psychiatric security aides employed by the Department of Human Services and the Department of
Corrections, whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the criminally insane;
(7) drug enforcement agents of the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of
the drug laws of the Commonwealth;
(8) special agents of the Office of Attorney General whose principal duty is the enforcement of the criminal
laws of the Commonwealth;
(9) any member of the Delaware River Port Authority Police;
(10) any policeman, fireman or park guard of any county, city, borough, town or township;
(10.1) firemen employed by the Commonwealth;
(11) any sheriff or deputy sheriff; or
(12) any enforcement officer or investigator of the Pennsylvania Game Commission or the Pennsylvania
Fish and Boat Commission; who is injured in the performance of his duties including, in the case of
firemen, duty as special fire police, and by reason thereof is temporarily incapacitated from performing
his duties, shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if an employe identified under
paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) or (12) or by the Delaware River Port Authority if a member
of the Delaware River Port Authority Police or by the county, township or municipality, by which he is
employed, his full rate of salary, as fixed by ordinance or resolution, until the disability arising therefrom
has ceased. All medical and hospital bills, incurred in connection with any such injury, shall be paid by
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the Delaware River Port Authority or by such county, city,
township or municipality. During the time salary for temporary incapacity shall be paid by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the Delaware River Port Authority or by the county, city,
borough, town or township, any workmen's compensation, received or collected by any such employe
for such period, shall be turned over to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to the Delaware River Port Authority or to such county, city, borough, town or township, and paid into the treasury thereof, and if such payment shall not be so made by the employe the amount so due the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Port Authority or the county, city, borough, town or township shall be deducted from any salary then or thereafter becoming due and owing.
(1) the State Police Force;
(2) enforcement officers and investigators employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board;
Corrections whose principal duty is the care, custody, and control of the criminally insane;
(9) members of the Delaware River Port Authority Police;
(10) salaried policemen and firemen;
(11) sheriffs and deputy sheriffs; and
(12) enforcement officers and investigators of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania
Fish and Boat Commission; who have served for four consecutive years or longer, diseases of the
heart and tuberculosis of the respiratory system, contracted or incurred by any of them after four years
of continuous service as such, and caused by extreme overexertion in times of stress or danger or by
exposure to heat, smoke, fumes or gases, arising directly out of the employment shall be compensable
in accordance with the terms hereof; and unless any such disability shall be compensable under the
compensation laws as having been caused by accidental injury, such disability shall be compensable
as occupational disease disabilities are presently compensable under the compensation laws of this
Commonwealth. It shall be presumed that tuberculosis of the respiratory system contracted or incurred
after four consecutive years of service was contracted or incurred as a direct result of employment.
(c) In the case of any person receiving benefits pursuant to this act, the statutes of limitations set forth in
sections 306.1, 315, 413, and 434 of the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), known as the “Workers’
Compensation Act,” shall not begin to run until the expiration of the receipt of benefits pursuant to this
(1) All payments herein required to be made by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on account of any
member of the State Police Force shall be made from moneys appropriated to the Pennsylvania State
(2) Any payments required to be made on account of any enforcement officer or investigator employed by
the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board shall be made from appropriations out of the State Stores Fund.
(3) Any payments required to be made on account of any parole agent, enforcement officer or investigator
employed by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole shall be made from moneys
appropriated to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole.
(4) Any payments required to be made on account of Capitol Police officers shall be made from moneys
appropriated to the Department of General Services.
(5) Any payments required to be made on account of any correction employe shall be made from moneys
appropriated to the Department of Corrections.
(6) Any payments required to be made on account of any psychiatric security aides shall be made from
moneys appropriated to the Department of Human Services or the Department of Corrections where
(7) Any payments required to be made on account of any drug enforcement agent or special agents shall
be made from moneys appropriated to the Office of Attorney General and any payments required to be
made on account of any fireman employed by the Commonwealth shall be made from moneys
appropriated to the employing agency.
(8) Any payments required to be made on account of any enforcement officers or investigators of the
Pennsylvania Game Commission shall be made from moneys appropriated to the Pennsylvania Game
Commission or executively authorized from the Game Fund under 34 Pa.C.S. Ch. 5 Subch. B (relating
to Game Fund).
(9) Any payments required to be made on account of any enforcement officers or investigators of the
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission shall be made from moneys appropriated to the
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission or executively authorized from the Fish Fund under 30
Pa.C.S. Ch. 5 Subch. B (relating to the Fish Fund) or the Boat Fund under 30 Pa.C.S. Ch. 5 Subch. C
(relating to the Boat Fund).
Act 1935-193, P.L. 477, § 1, approved June 28, 1935, eff. Sept. 1, 1935; Act 1937-170, P.L. 632, § 1, approved May 14, 1937, eff. Sept. 1, 1937; Act 1945-48, P.L. 100, § 1, approved Mar. 29, 2010, eff. Sept. 1, 2045; Act 1949-313, P.L. 1081, § 1, approved May 11, 1949, eff. Sept. 1, 1949; Act 1951-61, P.L. 301, § 2, approved May 16, 1951, eff. Sept. 1, 1951; Act 1951-365, P.L. 1473, § 2, approved Sept. 27, 1951, eff. immediately; Act 1955-83, P.L. 259, § 1, approved July 7, 1955, eff. Jan. 1, 1956; Act 1959-655, P.L. 1750, § 1, approved Dec. 15, 1959, eff. Jan. 1, 1960; Act 1961-374, P.L. 867, § 1, approved July 25, 1961, eff. in 60 days; Act 1970-51 (H.B. 323), P.L. 130, § 1, approved Mar. 5, 1970, eff. in 60 days; Act 1974-99 (H.B. 1399), P.L. 309, § 1, approved May 31, 1974, eff. in 90 days; Act 1978-117 (H.B. 629), P.L. 687, §§ 1, 2, approved July 1, 1978, eff. immediately; Act 1986-208 (H.B. 543), P.L. 1733, § 1, approved Dec. 19, 1986, eff. in 30 days; Act 1996-183 (H.B. 2630), P.L. 1438, § 1, approved Dec. 19, 1996, eff. immediately; Act 2006-20 (S.B. 437), P.L. 55, § 1, approved Mar. 15, 2006, eff. in 60 days; Act 2006-95 (S.B. 243), P.L. 614, § 1, approved July 7, 2006, eff. Jan. 1, 2007; Act 2016-113 (S.B. 889), § 1, approved October 26, 2016, eff. December 26, 2016; Act 2016-145 (H.B. 2148), § 1, approved November 4, 2016, eff. January 3, 2017.
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61 P.S. § 951. Salary; medical expenses; workmen’s compensation; widow’s and
minors’ benefits
Any employe of a State penal or correctional institution under the Bureau of Correction of the
Department of Justice and any employe of a State mental hospital or Youth Development Center
under the Department of Public Welfare, who is injured during the course of his employment by an act
of any inmate or any person confined in such institution or by any person who has been committed to
such institution by any court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by any provision of the “Mental
Health Act” and any employe of County Boards of Assistance injured by act of an applicant for or
recipient of public assistance and any employe of the Department of Public Welfare who has been
assigned to or who has volunteered to join the fire fighting force of any institution of the Department of
Public Welfare injured while carrying out fire fighting duties, shall be paid, by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, his full salary, until the disability arising therefrom no longer prevents his return as an
employe of such department, board or institution at a salary equal to that earned by him at the time of
All medical and hospital expenses incurred in connection with any such injury shall be paid by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania until the disability arising from such injury no longer prevents his return
as an employe of such department, board or institution at a salary equal to that earned by him at the
During the time salary for such disability shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania any
workmen’s compensation received or collected for such period shall be turned over to the
Commonwealth and paid into the General Fund, and if such payment shall not be so made, the amount
so due the Commonwealth shall be deducted from any salary then or thereafter becoming due and
The widow and minor dependents of any employe who dies within one year as a result of such injuries
shall be paid benefits equal to fifty per cent of the full salary of the deceased employe.
When a widow and minor dependents not in her custody are entitled to payments, one-half of such
payments shall be paid to the widow and one-half to the dependents. In every case the amount payable
to minor dependents shall be divided equally among them and be paid to the persons or institutions
having custody of them.
In the case of a widow or a widow with minor dependents in her custody, such benefits shall terminate
when such widow remarries. In the case of minor dependents, except when in the custody of a
remarried widow, such benefits shall terminate when all of the minor dependents become eighteen
years of age. Neither a widow nor minor dependents shall receive any benefits under this act while
receiving benefits under the Federal Social Security Law. The benefits provided by this act shall be
reduced by the amount of any workmen’s compensation benefits received or collected by any such
widow or minor dependents because of the same injury. Payments for the benefit of minor dependents
shall be made to the person having legal custody of them.
Act 1959-632, P.L. 1718, § 1, approved Dec. 8, 1959, eff. immediately; Act 1961-534, P.L. 1225, § 1, approved Sept. 2, 1961, eff. immediately.