The record-union., 1897-04-17

| Dc eIllilleu 10 retire dIlu W ICSCiNC iioiiA
the public sehool-teachers' annuity and
| retirement fund the sum OF SoU per
month in counties, and 500 per month
in consolidated cities and counties, pay
! able quarterly; and any teacher VINO
shall have become incapacitated for per-
| forming the duties of teacher, ana
| who shall have been a contributor TO
the annuity fund for ct least five years
| shall be entitled to retire and to receive
| an annuity from the public scnool-
| teachers annuity and retirement tuna
| equal to such proportion of the maxi
mum annuity granted under this Act, as
| the time that he or she has been SUD-
| ject to the burdens imposed by this Act,
bears to the period of thirty years; pro-
vided, however, that any annuity shall
| be suspended if it's recipient return to
service in the public schools, and any
annuity less than tWo-thirds of the
maximum annuity shall cease II the
committee on retirement constituted IN
| Section > of this Act, shall at any time
| decide that it's recipient has been re-
stored to the capacity of performing the
| duties of a teacher, and has been reim-
bursed from the annuity fund at least
| the full amount of his or her contrlbu-
ton thereto; provided further, that such
proportionate reduction shall not apply
to those now employed in the public
schools who shall have filed the no
tice hereinafter specified within ninety
days after the passage of this Act in
| counties, or in consolidated cities and
counties where the provisions of the Act
to which this Act is amendatory are now
applicable, and within ninety days after
| the establishment of the fund herein
after specified in all other counties, or
| consolidated cities and counties, and
who shall have paid at the time of their
retirement an amount equal to what
they would have paid into the fund had
they been contributing thirty years;
provided, further that if a person cease
to teach in any county, or city and coun-
ty where he or she has been subject to
the burdens imposed by this Act, then
after such person has taught in the pub
lie schools of this State for thirty years,
| he or she shall be entitled to retire and
to receive from the public school
teachers annuity and retirement fund
of the county, or consolidated city and
county to which he or she has contri-
buted, an annuity equal to such proper
ton of the maximum annuity granted
under this Act, as the time that he or
she has been subject to the burdens i'm
posed by this Act in such county, or
city and county, bears to the period OF
| thirty years; and provided further, that
| if any teacher shall be compelled by
| reason Of i'll health, to retire from the
profession of teaching after the expira-
| tion of five years and before the expira-
ton of thirty years of service in the
public schools of this State, such retir-
| ing teacher, if contributor to the an
nuity fund at the time of retirement,
shall be entitled to as many thirtieths
| of the full annuity as he or she has mad
years of service by paying into the an
nuity fund the contributions to that
fund corresponding to those years Of
service rendered at a time when or in
place where it was impossible to make
such contribution by reason of the non
existence of an annuity fund.
| (b) Teachers of evening schools re-
ceiving a salary of fifty dollars or less,
shall be subject to one-half it's bur
dens and shall be entitled to one-half
of the benefits of this Act; provided,
that any teacher who is employed both
in a day and in an evening school shall
be considered for the purposes of this
Act to be employed in a day school
only.
Section g. A new section is hereby
added to said Act, to be known as Sec
! ton nine and to read as follows viz:
Section g. If at the end Of any quar-
| ter year there shall not be a sufficient
amount of money in the annuity fund.-
hereinafter described, to pay all war
rants or demands of annuitants in full,
| then the money in that fund shall be
divided FRO rata among them, and the
sum received by each annuitant shall
be in full discharge of all claims against
said fund to that date.
Section TO- Section six of said Act is
hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows, and to be known as section ten
| of this Act, viz:
Section TO- The public school teach
in provided for, shall consist of the fol-
lowing, with the income and interest
thereof: % Twelve dollars (S12) per
school year, of the salaries paid to all
| those subject to the burdens of this
! Act, in each county or consolidated
city and county, shall be deducted from
|
the Treasurer of the county, or consol-
idated city and county, to the public
| school teachers retirement fund COM
missoners of said county, or consol-
idated city and county; and it shall be
| the duty of the Secretary of the Board
of Education in every incorporated city
or town, or consolidated city or coun-
ty, and the Secretary of the Board of
Trustees of every school district out
| side of such city or town, or conSoli-
dated city and county, to note in each
warrant the amount to be deducted by
| the Treasurer. CID All moneys re-
ceived from gifts, bequests, and de-
vises, or from any other source Gid
All money, pay, compensation or sal
ary forfeited, deducted, or withheld
| from the warrant or demand for sal
airy of any teacher or teachers for and
! on account of absence from duty from
any cause, which the Board of Educa-
ton of every incorporated city or town,
or the Board of Trustees of every school
district outside of such city or town,
may appropriate and set apart for the
| aforesaid fund: and said Board of Ed
| ucation, or Boards of Trustees, are
hereby empowered to appropriate such
moneys, or any part thereof, for such
| fund; provided, that in consolidated
cities and counties, after the establish
ment of an annuity fund therein, it is
hereby made the duty of Boards of Ed
ucation to appropriate. monthly, at
least one-half of such moneys for such
fund.