9-911. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Board" means the police pension board. 2. " Department" means the police department. 3. " Departmental member" means a member of the police pension board chosen from among the members of the department other than the chief of police. 4. " Fund" means […]
9-912. Police pension fund In each city having a population, according to the last federal census, of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there is created, and in each incorporated city or town having a population of less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there may be created by ordinance, a police pension fund, which shall be […]
9-913. Administration of fund; police pension board; membership A. The police pension fund shall be administered by a police pension board. In cities in which the provisions of this article are or shall hereafter become mandatory, the board shall be composed of the president of the civil service commission, if there is one, and if […]
9-914. Election of departmental members of board The governing body of a municipality, within thirty days after the provisions of this article become effective as to the municipality, shall call an election for the purpose of selecting departmental members of the board. The election shall be held at the city or town hall or such […]
9-915. Terms of departmental members The terms of office of departmental members of the board shall end at noon on the third Monday in January of the year following the year in which they are elected, but the members shall continue to serve until their successors are elected and qualify.
9-916. Vacancies in departmental membership A vacancy occurring in the departmental membership of the board shall be filled at a special election. Notice of the election shall be given not less than one week prior thereto. The election shall be called by the governing body upon occurrence of the vacancy.
9-917. Oath of office The oath of office shall be administered to departmental members by the presiding officer of the board.
9-918. Compensation of pension board members; liability on bonds No member of the board shall receive compensation for services performed as a member or employee of the board. The ex officio members shall be liable on their official bonds for any misconduct in connection with the performance of their duties as such.
9-919. Organizational meeting Within one week after declaration of the result of the first election held as prescribed in section 9-914, the chairman ex officio of the board shall call a meeting for the purpose of organization, the adoption of rules and such other action as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of […]
9-920. Meetings of pension board The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on a date fixed by its rules, and such other meetings, after due notice to each member, as the board deems necessary. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum, but no retirement shall be ordered, application for pension approved, warrant authorized […]
9-921. Powers and duties of the board; audit A. The police pension board shall have exclusive control and management of the police pension fund, subject to this article. It shall make rules, not inconsistent with this article, for its government, the conduct of its proceedings and the management of the fund, and shall do all […]
9-922. Annual report of board The board shall submit a written report to the governing body on the first Monday in January of each year, showing in detail the condition of the fund and transactions of the board during the preceding year.
9-923. Contents of fund; choice of method of payment by municipality A. The police pension fund shall consist of: 1. Five per cent of the compensation paid to each member of the department to be deducted from each salary warrant issued in payment for the services of a member, which shall be refunded to any […]
9-924. Payment of pensions Pensions shall be paid from the fund in cases specified in this section and sections 9-925 through 9-928. It is the intention to restrict the operation of this article to situations not covered by the workers’ compensation law and to prohibit payments from the fund to persons receiving, or for whose […]
9-925. Computation of pension upon voluntary retirement or upon mandatory retirement; limitation A. A member of the police department whose membership began prior to July 1, 1952 and who serves the department twenty years in the aggregate may, upon application, be retired, and shall be paid during his lifetime a monthly pension equal to fifty […]
9-926. Computation of pension upon permanent or temporary retirement for injury or disease A. Any member who has served in the department an aggregate of five years, and who, within the hours he is required to be on active duty, and while engaged in the performance of his duty, contracts a disease or sustains an […]
9-927. Benefits to dependents upon death of member A. If upon the death, from any cause, of a member retired under the provisions of section 9-925, or of a member after ten years’ service and while in the service, or if upon the death of a member retired under the provisions of section 9-926 resulting […]
9-928. Effect of service as public officer upon pension A. A person who has been retired from service under the provisions of this article and awarded compensation in accordance therewith, and who after retirement receives a salary as an officer or employee of the municipality from which he was retired shall forfeit and shall not […]
9-929. Fund requirements precedent to payment of pensions A retirement shall not be ordered, or an application for pension allowed, or a warrant or check drawn upon the fund until there is to the credit of the fund a sum equal to one hundred and fifty dollars for each member of the department.
9-930. Payments from fund Monies paid from the fund shall be paid by the treasurer only upon warrants signed by the chairman and countersigned by the secretary of the board.
