Service by any person in any of the armed forces of the United States as an officer, private or nurse, or in any other capacity, regardless of length of service, in time of war or other declared national emergency, is a complete and final discharge of any obligation of such person to serve the Commonwealth as a teacher in the public schools, or in any other capacity, including any such obligation which has been reduced or computed into terms of a monetary obligation in lieu of such service, arising by virtue of any statute or of any contract entered into between such person and any state-owned or state-supported institution of higher learning, in consideration of any state scholarship awarded to or received by such person as a student in such institution; provided, that such service is terminated by an honorable or medical discharge; provided, further, that such person shall have entered such service with the armed forces within four years after leaving such state-owned or state-operated institution.

History

1942, p. 504; Michie Code 1942, § 997c.