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

shall be paid to any person while he
remains a member of the Police De-
lpartment and no person receiving
such pension shall be entitled to any
other relief from the association.
Sec. 3. Pensions may be paid to
any widow or child under 16 years of
age of such pensioned and retired
member of the police department. or
to any widow or child under 16 years
of age of any member who dies while
in the service of the police depart
ment of any such village.
Sec. A. Pensions may be paid by
such police relief association to any
widow or child under 16 years of age
of any such pensioned and retired
member of the police department.
and to any widow or child under 16
years of age of any member who dies
partment of such village, and such
widow or child shall receive not to
exceed the sums hereinafter provided
for, viz:
Forty dollars per month to such
widow. and $1,000 per month to each
lof such children under 16 years of
age; provided that where such widow
and such children reside together the
money herein required to be paid to
such children shall be paid to such
widow for the support of such chill
dren, but that the money paid to such
widow for herself and such children
shall not exceed $500 per month in
all. Provided, further, that in the
event of the death of both parents
leaving minor child or children I'M
der the age of 16 years of age, en-
titled to such pension, such sums as
may be necessary for the care. main
tenance and education of such child
or children may be paid to the legal
guardian thereof. but not to exceed
the sum of $500 per month to the
children of any one policeman; pro-
vided, further, that in the event that
any such widow remarries. she shall
receive no further benefits under
this law; and provided, further. that
said fund shall not be used for any
other purpose than the payme.t of
service, disability or dependency
pensions, as herein provided. and for
the relief of sick, injured and dis
abled policeman. The word mem
ber," as used in this Act, shall in
clude policewomen, police matrons
and assistant police matrons.
Sec. 5. No pension allowed or to be
allowed by said police relief associa-
ton under this act shall be subject
to judgment, garnishments or ex-
ecutions, or other legal process, and
no person entitled to such pension
shall have any right to assign the
same nor shall said association have
the power to recognize any attemIS'
ed assignment or pay over any sum
whatever which has been assigned or
| attempted to be ASSIGNED
Sec. 6. Said association through its
officers shall have full charge, man.
agement and control of the pension
fund herein provided for, which saju
fund shall be derived from the
sources herein stated: From gifts o.
real estate or personal property, and
| from the rents and sales thereof or
the income therefrom. 1t snail also
be the duty of the village recorder,
treasurer. or other disbursing officer
of such village where police relic t
association has been duly incorporat-
ed and organized under the provi-
sions of this Act, to deduct each
month from the monthly pay of each
member of such police department
who is a member of the association
and entitled to the benefits there from,
monthly pay and to place the same
to the credit of said police pension
fund; it shall also be the duty of ev-
cry police officer receiving any re-
ward for services, in making arrests
or otherwise, to pay unto said police
pension fund all such rewards, and
it shall be the duty of the chief of
police of any such village to place
to the credit of and pay into such
police pension fund all monies COM
ing into the hands of the police,
whe n the same shall have been un-
claimed for a period of six months,
and to sell all unclaimed property
coming into the hands of the police
when the same shall have been un-
claimed for a period of six months,
and place the proceeds thereof to the
credit of said police pension fund.
The Village Council or other gov
erning body of such city shall each
year, at the time the tax levies are
made for the general revenues of the
village, levy within the limits now
permitted by law, tax of one-tenth
Iof a mill on ali the taxable property
of such village, the amount of which
tax shall not in the aggregate exceed
the sum of six thousand dollars (S6,-
00O per annum, and which levy shall
be transmitted to the County Auditor
of the county in which the village
is situated at the time the other tax
levies are transmitted and shall be
collected and the payment thereof
shall be enforced in the same man.
ner as the other taxes of such viii
lage. The Village Treasurer, when
the moneys derived from such tax are
received by him, shall credit the
same to the Police Pension Fund, to-
gether with all penalties and inter-
est collected thereon, and said
moneys shall not be withdrawn from
said fund or transferred to any other
fund.
If at any time the balance on hand
of the fund so raised by taxation as
in this section provided. together
with other resources, exceeds the
sum of fifty thousand dollars ESQ.,
000), then as often as this shall &C.
cur the levy of said sums shall be
omitted for any year in which said
condition shall exist, and if at any
time the whole amount of the sums
that may be raised by taxation in
any year is not needed for the pur-
poses of this Act and the mainte-
nance of the said fund at fifty thou
sand dollars $3.50, 0OO then said sum
so to be raised by taxation in any
such year shall be proportionately re-
duced to such amount ais will be suf-
ficient to carry out the provisions
thereof
The Village Treasurer shall, upon
written direction of the governing
board or Board of Directors of said
association, invest said funds in such
interest bearing securities as are
specified from time to time by the
said Board of Directors, provided
that the same shall be such securi-
tics as are prescribed from time to
time by the statutes OF Minnesota as
securities for investments of the
State Board of Investment.
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