Prior service credit.

Any firefighter who becomes a member of the fund and who thereafter leaves work as a firefighter and is drafted or enters directly into the Armed Forces of the United States and who returns to work as a firefighter within six months after he or she ceases to serve in the armed forces shall receive prior service credit for such service in the armed forces, not to exceed five years.

(Act 2010-726, p. 1818, §9.)