GONTARCHICK v. CITY OF POTTSVILLE

No. 101 MAP 2009.

9 A.3d 1174 (2010)

Ronald GONTARCHICK, Susan Ann Gontarchick, his wife; Marlin Reed, Mary Jane Reed, his wife; and Matthew Reed, their son, Appellants v. CITY OF POTTSVILLE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony M. Caputo, Esq. , Christina Marie Fisher, Esq. , Lightman Welby Stoltenberg & Caputo, Harrisburg, for Ronald Gontarchick, Susan Gontarchick, Marlin Reed, Mary Jane Reed and Matthew Reed, appellants.

Cheryl Lynn Kovaly, Esq. , James Dennis Young, Esq. , Lavery, Faherty, Young & Patterson, P.C., Harrisburg, for City of Pottsville, appellee.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and ORIE MELVIN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This appeal concerns the appropriate method, under the Third Class City Code, for calculating police pension benefits.

Appellants, Ronald Gontarchick and Marlin Reed, each served as full-time police officers for Appellee, City of Pottsville, for more than twenty years. Upon retirement, both submitted demands for pension benefits to the City's police pension fund, as established under the Third Class City Code.

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