The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES

Chapter 185
MUNICIPAL POLICE PENSIONS

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F.S. 185.19

185.19 Separation from municipal service; refunds.—For any municipality, chapter plan, local law municipality, or local law plan under this chapter:

(1) If any police officer leaves the service of the municipality before accumulating aggregate time of 10 years toward retirement and before being eligible to retire under the provisions of this chapter, such police officer shall be entitled to a refund of all of his or her contributions made to the municipal police officers’ retirement trust fund without interest, less any benefits paid to him or her.

(2) If any police officer who has been in the service of the municipality for at least 10 years elects to leave his or her accrued contributions, if contributions are required, in the municipal police officers’ retirement trust fund, such police officer upon attaining age 50 years or more may retire at the actuarial equivalent of the amount of such retirement income otherwise payable to him or her, as provided in s. 185.16(4), or, upon attaining age 55 years, may retire as provided in s. 185.16(2).

History.—s. 17, ch. 28230, 1953; s. 6, ch. 59-320; s. 7, ch. 61-85; s. 2, ch. 61-119; s. 949, ch. 95-147; s. 61, ch. 99-1.

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Amendments to 185.19

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 185.19

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 185.19.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG St. v. REMIA,, 41 So. 3d 322 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . Section 185.19 provides as follows: (1) If any police officer leaves the service of the municipality . . . Under section 185.19(1), the former police officers “shall be entitled to a refund of all of his or her . . . They “shall be entitled to” them contributions without interest and less any benefits paid. § 185.19( . . . Section 185.19(1) does not create a benefit or enhance the status of the officers. . . . We cannot say that section 185.19 subjects the former police officers to such a state of uncertainty. . . .

In INDEPENDENCE VILLAGE, INC., 52 B.R. 715 (Bankr. E.D. Mich. 1985)

. . . This would allow the debtor to cure the “arrear-age” by making monthly payments of $10,-185.19 over and . . .

C. BAILEY, K. V. E. N. v. CITY OF TAMPA, a B. D., 175 So. 2d 533 (Fla. 1965)

. . . .-14, 185.15, 185.16, 185.18, 185.19, 185.21, F.S.A. . . . municipal police (see F.S. §§ 185.04 to 185.07, inch, and §§ 185.14 to 185.16, inch, and §§ 185.18, 185.19 . . .

v., 9 T.C. 1077 (T.C. 1947)

. . . Section 185.19 of said chapter provides that any corporation organized under the general laws may become . . .