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of said fund, as prescribed in this section, during the preceding fiscal

year.

Such sums so set apart by such cities, villages and towns shall be paid by the official or officials of such cities, villages and towns to the treasurer of the pension fund hereby created, on or before the third Tuesday in August of each year.

In lieu of setting apart the aforesaid sums, any such city, village or town may levy a tax for the purpose of providing revenue for the pension fund hereby created, and for that purpose it shall be lawful for any such city, village or town to levy a tax on all taxable property of such city, village or town in such amount as will produce the sum of money equal to twice that deducted from the salaries or wages of the aforesaid employees and twice that paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by the aforesaid employees for the benefit of the pension fund created by this Act, as prescribed in this section, during the preceding fiscal year. Said tax (which shall in no event exceed five-tenths of a mill on the dollar) shall be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of such city, village or town, which said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes which such city, village or town is now or may hereafter be authorized to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such city, village or town, and the county clerk of the county in which such city, village or town is located, in reducing tax levies under the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as subsequently amended, shall not consider the tax for the pension fund created by this Act as a part of the general tax levy for such city, village or town purposes, and shall not include the same in the limitation of three (3) per cent. of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended. All moneys derived from the tax so levied shall be set apart by the official or officials of such city, village or town to whom same shall be paid as a fund for pensioning the employees hereinbefore described of such city, village or town, and shall be paid to the treasurer of the pension fund created by this Act as soon as said moneys are received by said official or officials. Should there be insufficient funds to meet the requirements of this Act during any year, such city, village or town may issue and dispose of tax anticipation warrants as provided by law against the tax levy for the current fiscal year.

If the sum derived from the tax levied as aforesaid should exceed twice that deducted from the salaries or wages of the aforesaid employees and twice that paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by the aforesaid employees for the benefit of said fund, as prescribed in this section, and applied to this fund during the preceding fiscal year, the sum to be paid into the fund during the next succeeding year shall be reduced by the amount of such excess. If the sum derived from the said tax levied as aforesaid should be less than the aforesaid sum of twice that deducted from the salaries or wages of the aforesaid employees and twice that paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by the aforesaid employees for the benefit of the fund, as prescribed in this

section, during the preceding fiscal year, the amount of such deficit shall be included in the tax levy for the ensuing year.

And at the time of the payment of such moneys, collected or reor resulting from the levy and collection of the

ceived from licenses,

tax hereinbefore provided for, said official or officials shall make a Sorn statement to the board of trustees of said pension fund and to the mayor of such city or cities, or the president of the board of trustees of such villages and towns of all moneys received and paid out by such official or officials on account of said pension fund during the year, and any such official or officials shall at any and all times, upon demand by said pension board, furnish to said board a statement or information of any kind relative to said official's or official's method of collecting or handling of said pension funds, and all books and records of such official or Officials shall be produced at any time by said official or officials for Amination and inspection by said board of pension trustees, for the PU rposes herein provided.

§ 2. A board composed of the comptroller and treasurer of said y, village or town, and three employees elected as hereinafter proded, who shall be residents of such city, village or town shall be and Constitute a board of trustees, authorized to carry out the provisions of is Act. Said board shall be known as the board of trustees of the unicipal pension fund of such city, village or town. The three memers of said board who are employees shall not hold, during their term membership on said board, any appointive or elective political offices I positions. One of such persons shall be elected to serve for a term of ne year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years, and annually thereafter said employees shall elect one of their number to hold office for a term of three years or until his or her successor is elected and qualified. Each such person so elected shall qualify for office by taking oath, which oath shall be administered by the clerk of such city, village or town, to perform the duties of the office of trustee of said fund in compliance with the terms of this Act, and shall thereupon assume the duties of said office.

Elections for trustees of this fund shall be held on some day between the second Monday in September and the second Monday in October of each year, under rules and regulations prescribed by the board of trustees. The ballot shall be secret in character, and the person for whom the greatest number of votes shall be cast shall be considered and declared elected trustee of this pension fund. All employees from whose salaries or wages deductions shall have been made or who shall have made payments to the treasurer of such city, village or town for the benefit of this fund, as prescribed in section 1 of this Act, within one month prior to the date on which any such election is held, shall have the right to vote at such election.

When any elective member of said board shall cease to be in the employ of said city, village or town, his or her membership in such board shall cease. In the event of death, resignation or inability to act of any member of said board elected under the provisions of this section. the successor of such member shall be elected at a special election, which

shall be called by said board and be conducted in the same manner as are annual elections hereunder, and any person so elected shall qualify for office in the manner hereinbefore stated, and shall thereupon assume the duties of said office.

If at any election hereafter held in any such city, village or town for the purpose of electing a trustee or trustees of the fund hereby created, any person shall falsely personate an employee entitled to vote at such election, and vote or attempt to vote in or under the name of such employee, or in or under any false or assumed or fictitious name, or in or under and name not his own, or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently cast more than one vote for any candidate, or vote more than once, or having voted shall vote or attempt or offer to vote again, or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer or promise thereof, attempt to influence any employee entitled to vote, in giving his vote, such person upon conviction thereof shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined the sum of one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each such offense.

The said board of trustees shall submit a report, at least once each year, to the Superintendent of Insurance of this State, and the said Superintendent of Insurance shall prescribe the form for such reports, the matter which they shall contain, and the times when they shall be submitted, and said Superintendent of Insurance shall report the information so submitted to him, or a comprehensive summary thereof, to the Governor of this State at least once each year. The said Superintendent of Insurance shall also prescribe a system of records and accounting to be used in the management of this fund.

§ 7. Except as hereinafter provided in section 912 of this Act, any employee who shall have been in the service of such city, village or town for a period of not less than twenty (20) years, and who shall have attained the age of fifty-five (55) years, shall have the right to retire from the service of such city, village or town at any time after this Act is in force and effect and to become a beneficiary hereunder. Provided, that any such employee who shall retire from the service of such city, village or town, before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wages of such employee for a period of twenty (20) years shall agree to pay into said fund, within four (4) years from and after the date when such employee shall become a beneficiary of said fund, the sum which, together with all moneys previously deducted from the salary or wages of such employee and all moneys paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by such employee for the benefit of the fund hereby created, as prescribed in section 1 of this Act, is equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty (20) years and interest thereon at the rate of five (5%) per cent. per annum from date of retirement. Such sum so to be paid shall be deducted by the treasurer of such city, village or town in equal monthly installments from the benefits due and payable to such employee at the regular time for the payment of said benefits after he or she shall become a beneficiary hereunder.

§ 8. Except as hereinafter provided in section 92 of this Act, any employee who has been in the service of such city, village or town for a period of not less than twenty (20) years and who shall retire from the service of such city, village or town before attaining the age of fifty-five (55) years shall have the right to continue paying into said fund monthly at the perscribed rate and may thereby remain in good standing in said fund and shall have the right to become a beneficiary hereunder upon attaining the age of fifty-five (55) years: Provided, such employee shall, in the event that he or she retires from the service of such city, village or town before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wages of such employee for a period of twenty (20) years, pay into such fund, within one year from the date when he or she shall retire from the service of said city, village or town, a sum which, together with all moneys previously deducted from the salary or wages of such employee and all moneys paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by such employee for the benefit of the fund hereby created, as prescribed in section 1 of this Act, is equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty (20) years, with five (5%) per cent interest thereon from date of retirement.

§ 9. Any employee who has been in the service of said city, village or town for a period of five (5) years, or more, from and after July 1, 1911, shall have the right to retire from active service on account of serious disability, rendering him or her unable to properly discharge his or her duties, and may become a beneficiary under this Act and be entitled to receive pension in an amount equal to that provided for an employee who retires under the provisions of section 7 hereof and whose payments into the fund, in form of deductions from salary or wages and payments as prescribed in section 1 hereof,are equal to those of said disabled employee.

Proof of disability shall be furnished to the board of trustees by at least one licensed and practicing physician of such city, village or town, who shall be selected by said board, and said board may require other evidence of disability. Each such disabled employee who shall receive pension under the provisions of this section shall be examined at least once a [each] year by one or more licensed and practicing physician or physicians selected by said board. Such physician or physicians shall advise said board whether the disability of such employee continues or not. When the disability of any such employee ceases, the said board. shall discontinue payment of pension to such employee, and he or she shall be returned to active service at the same salary which he or she received before retirement on account of disability as soon as may be under the laws and rules governing the civil service of such city, village

or town.

If any employee receives any compensation or allowance from such city, village or town, under and by virtue of the law known as the Workmen's Compensation Act or other similar Act, the pension herein provided for such employee shall be reduced by the amounts so received if they be less than the amounts of such pension, and if any employee

receives a sum or sums as compensation or allowance in excess of the pension herein provided for such employee, he or she shall not receive any pension until after the expiration of the period of time during which pension payable at the rate herein stated would equal the amount of such

excess sum or sums.

FILED June 8, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this eighth day of June, A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

PENSION FUND-POLICE IN CITIES OVER 200,000, ACT OF 1915 AMENDED.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 420. FILED JUNE 14, 1917.)

AN ACT entitled, "An Act to amend sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 of an Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a Police Pension Fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants," approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a Police Pension Fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants," approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read respectively as follows:

§ 3. Whenever any person shall have been or shall hereafter be appointed and sworn as a probationary or regular policeman in any such city, and shall have served for a period of twenty (20) years or more as such policeman in the police force of any such city, or where the combined years of service of such person in the police department and fire department of any such city shall aggregate twenty (20) years or more, in either such case when such person shall have arrived at the age of fifty (50) or more years he may make application to said board for retirement, and said board shall order and direct that such policeman, after his retirement from the police force, shall be paid a yearly pension:

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