Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
Approved March 9, 1851.

AN ACI CrcaIlng n 1uHu 1Or the re-
lief of sick, disabled or retired pO-
licemen; creating pensions for dis
abled or retired policemen and their
widows and children under 16 years
of age; and for disabled or retired
police matrOnS and their children
under 18 years of age; and creating
pensions for the widows of the po-
licemen who have died while in the
service and for their children under
16 years of age, in villages now OF
hereafter having a population OF
more than 5000 inhabitants and
having an assessed valuation OF
more than SS,0O0,00O exclusive OF
money and credits.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF
the State of Minnesota:
Section 1. In every village in this
state now having or hereafter having
a population of over 5000 inhabitants
and an assessed valuation of more
than S., 200, 900. there may be created
a police pension fund which shall be
managed, controlled and distributed
in accordance with the provisions OF
this Act.
Sec. 2. That every paid municipal
police department now existing or
which may hereafter be organized is
hereby authorized to become incor-
porated pursuant to the provisions of
Chapter So, General Statutes 1925.
and the laws amendatory thereto. and
adopt a constitution and bylaws as a
relief association, and is author
lied to provide for and permit and
allow such police relief association,
so incorporated and organized, to pay
out of and from any funds it may have
received from any source serv-
ice, disability or dependency pension
in such amounts and in such manner
as it's articles of incorporation and
constitution and bylaws shall desig-
nate, not exceeding. however, the fol-
lowing sum per month to each of its
pensioned members who shall have
reached the age of fifty-five years or
more, and shall have served 20 years
or more in such department, or their
widows and children under 16 years
of age, viz:
Seventy-fve dollars (s75.0O per
month when such member shall have
reached the age of fifty-five years or
more and shall have served as a
member of such paid Municipal Po-
lice Department for a period of
twenty years or more in the Police
Department of such village in which
such relief association shall have
been organized. or who has been dis
abled physically or mentally because
of any injury received or suffered
after at least one year of service az
such member. while a member of
such organization and Police Depart
ment, so as to render necessary his
retirement from active police service
and cause total and permanent dis
ability; provided. further, that no
pension authorized by this Act shall
be paid to any person while receiving
compensation in any form, or sick
benefit. from any county, city, village,
township or other political subdivi-
sion of the state, or to any person
after he removes his residence from
the United States, or to any person
who shall have been convicted of a
felony for which he shall have been
adjudged to be imprisoned, or who is
an habitual drunkard, or to any per-
son receiving pension or sick relief
from any other public relief associa-
ton.
Provided, however. that said maxi
mum monthly payments of seventy
five dollars $4,000 per month may
be increased by adding thereto an
amount not exceeding three dollars
tSo.O0) per month for each year of
active duty over twenty years of
service before retirement; provided.
that with such increases no
pension or payment hereunder shall
exceed the sum of one hundred dol
lars ts1OO'OO per month"; and pro-