The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
CHAPTER x.
Police Relief and Pension Fund

Police Relief and Pension Fund.
 SECTION 1. In order to continue in
 force and make effectual pensions already existing in favor of the Police
 Force, a Fund Is hereby created to be
 known and designated as the Police Relief and Pension Fund. The Board of Police Commissioners and its suc- cessors in office shall constitute a
 Board of Trustees of said Fund.
 Sec. ?. The Board of Police Com missioners may, by unanimous vote, retire and relieve from service airy aged, infirm or disabled member of the
 Department who has arrived at the age of siXty-five years, and who, upon an examination by two regularly cer- tificated practicing physicians appointed by the Commissioners for that pur- pose, may be ascertained to be by req son of such age, infirmity or other dis ability, unfit for the performance of his duties. Such retired member shall re- ceive from the Police Relief and Pen sion Fund a monthly pension equal to one-half of the amount of the salary attached to the rank held by him three years prior to the date of his retire ment No such pension shall be paid unless such person. has been an active member of the Department for twenty years. continuously next preceding his retirement, and the same shall cease at his death.
 Sec. 3. Any member of the Depart ment who shall become physically dis abled by reason of any bodily injury received in the performance of his duty, upon his filing with the Commis- sioners a verified petition setting forth the facts constituting such disability and the cause thereof, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Chief of Po- lice the Captain of the Company to which he belongs, and by two regularly certificated physicians of the City and County recommending his retirement upon pension on account of such dis ability, may be retired from the De- partment upon an annual pension equal to one-half the amount of salary attached to the rank which he may have held three years prior to the date of such retirement, to be paid to him during his life and to cease at his death. In case his disability shall cease his pension shall cease, and he shall be restored to the service in the rank he occupied at the time of his retirement.
 Sec. 4. The Commissioners shall, out of the Police Relief and Pension Fund, provide for the family of any officer. member or employe of the Department who may be killed while in the per formance of his duty, as follows:
 First-Should the decedent be mar ried, his widow shall as long as she may remain unmarried be paid monthly pension equal to one-half of the salary attached to the rank held by the de cedent at the time of his death.
 Second-Should the decedent leave no widow, but leave an orphan child or children under the age of sixteen years, such children shall collectively receive pension equal to one-half the salary attached to the position held by their father at the time of his death, until the youngest attains the age of sixteen years.
 Thlrd-Should the decedent leave no widow and no orphan child or children, but leave a parent or parents depend ing solely upon him for support, such parents, so depending, shall collectively receive pension equal to one-half the salary attached to the position held by the decedent at the time of his death, during such time as the Commissioners may unanimously determine its ne- cessity.
 Sec. 5. Any person receiving a pen sion as aforesaid from the Police Relief and Pension Fund, who shall be con- victed of felony, shall become dissi- pated, an habitual drunkard, or shall become a nonresident of this State, shall forfeit all right to said pension.
 Sec. 6. When any member of the De- partment shall, after ten years service, die from natural causes, then his wid- ow, and If there be no widow, then his children, or if there be no widow or children, then his mother if dependent upon him for support, shall be entitled to a sum equal to the amount retained by the Treasurer from the pay of such deceased member and paid into the Re- lief and Pension Fund but the provi- sions of this section shall not apply to
 of 1o rtv -1A shall have received any pension under the terms of this Chapter
 Sec. T. The Commissioners shall make rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Chapter and to en- force compliance herewith on the part of the members of the Department. It shall make up an estimate every year of the amount required to pay all de- mands on the Police Relief and Pension certify the same to the Supervisors in connection with and as a part of the annual appropriation for the Police 
 Sec. 8. The Commissioners may, on notice to the Chief of Police, reward any member of the Department for conduct which is heroic or meritorious. shall be discretionary with the Board; but it shall not exceed in any one in- stance one months salary.
 Sec. g. The Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners shall hold quar- terly meetings on the first Mondays of April. July, October and January of each year, and upon the call of its President. It shall issue warrants, signed by its President and Secretary, to the persons entitled thereto, for the amount of money ordered paid to such persons from the Relief and Pension Fund. Each warrant shall state for what purpose the payment is made.
 The Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners shall keep public rec ord of its proceedings. It shall at each quarterly meeting send to the Treas urer and to the Auditor a written or printed list of all persons entitled to payment from the Relief and Pension Fund, stating the amounts of such payments, and for what granted. Such list shall be certified and signed by the President and Secretary of the Board. The Auditor shall thereupon enter copy of such list upon book to be kept for that purpose which shall be known as The Police Relief and Pension Fund Book. All warrants signed by the President and Secretary of the Board shall be presented to the Auditor, and be audited and ordered paid by him out of said Fund.
 Sec. 10. The Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners shall possess the