Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER 414-S.F. No. 649
A BILL

CHAPTER 414-S.F. No. 649
A BILL
FOR AN ACT to amend Laws of
1929, Chapter 224, Sections 2 and
4, creating a pension for disabled
or retired employees in the classi-
fled service of any department or
bureau Of health in any city now
or hereafter having a population
Of $4,000 or more, operating under
home rule charter, providing a
fund out of which such pensions,
funeral expenses of deceased
members and administration ex-
penses shall be paid and for the
establishment of pension board
for the management, control and
distribution of such pensions and
funds.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State OF Minnesota:
Section l. That Laws OF 1929,
Chapter 224, Section 2, be amended
so as to read as follows:
Section 2. That every such
municipal department or bureau of
health now existing, or which may
hereafter be organized, may and
hereby is authorized to become in
corporated pursuant to the provi-
sions of the General Statutes OF
Minnesota, and to adopt articles of
incorporation and bylaws as a re-
lief association to provide and per-
NIT said department or bureau Of
health, relief association so In
corporated or so organized, to pay
out Of and from any fund that it
may have received from the State
or Minnesota or from any other
source, a service or disability pen
sion in such sum and under such
limitations and conditions as its
articles Of incorporation and by
laws shall provide and permit, to
each OF its pen5ioned members, who
shall have reached the age of fifty
years or more, and who shall have
done active duty as a member of
such health department or bureau
for period of twenty years or more
in the city in which such relief as
ISOLATION shall be so organized, or
who having been disabled physically
or mentally because Of any injury
or disability received or suffered
while SO employed as such member
OF such health department or bur-
eau so as to render necessary his
retirement from active service, and
in addition thereto to pay out of
and from any such fund funeral
benefits for deceased members not
exceeding the sum OF $4,000 and
general administration expenses, in
such sum and under such limita-
tons and conditions as the articles
OF incorporation and bylaws shall
provide and permit. Such member
entitled to pension under the pro-
visions hereof may be placed upon
the pension list, and shall receive
such pension, in such sum and un-
der such limitations and conditions
as the articles of incorporation and
bylaws shall provide and permit,
provided, however, that said funds
shall not be used for any other
purpose than for the payment of
service and disability pensions as
herein provided, funeral benefits for
deceased members and general ad-
ministration expenses. Such SER
vice or disability pension shall be
a sum equal to one-half of the
monthly compensation allowed to
such member as salary at the date
Of his retirement when such men,
Der shall have arrived at the age
of fifty years or more, and shall
have served a period of twenty
years or more in such health de-
partment or bureau in the city in
which such relief association shall
be so organized, or shall have been
disabled, physically or mentally, be-
cause Of any injury or disability re-
ceived or suffered while in the en-
ploy of such health department or
bureau, so as to render necessary
his retirement from active service.
Provided that no retired member
shall receice service or disability
pension in an amount less than
$1,000 nor more than $500 per
month. Provided, further, that
whenever it shall appear that any
applicant for service pension was
member of such relief association
for a period Of less than twenty
years at the time of retirement, the
amounts herein provided shall be
reduced In such sum and under
such limitations and conditions as
its articles of incorporation and by
laws shall provide and permit"
Section 2. That Laws of 1929,
Chapter 224, Section 4, be amend
ed so as to read as follows:
Section 4. The pension author
lied by this act shall not be paid
to any person who Is only part-time
employed or while drawing salary
in any amount from said municipal
ity or who shall have been convict
ed of felony for which he shall
be adjudged to be imprisoned, or
who is an habitual drunkard; and
any person receiving the pension
herein mentioned shall not receive
or be entitled to receive any other
or further pension or relief from
said association"
Approved April "a, 1897.
CHAPTER 415-H. F. No. COZ
A BILL
FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
ton 3286-1 relating To the ex-