The Legislature finds: (1) That West Virginia law enforcement is currently suffering from an unacceptably high number of vacant law-enforcement positions because of military service obligations, and that given the time factors and expense associated with the hiring and training of personnel with no prior law-enforcement experience, it is in the interest of the state to reemploy retired law- enforcement officers in order to temporarily fill only the vacant positions of those law- enforcement officers called to active military duty; (2) That no pension rights of any kind shall accrue or attach pursuant to reemployment under this article; and (3) That a law-enforcement agency who hires a retireda law-enforcement officer shall bear no responsibility for medical payments resulting from work-related injuries or illnesses of persons hired pursuant to this article, other than thlose commonly associated with state employees covered by workers' compensations.
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