40 ILCS 5/3-114.6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 40 - PENSIONS|40 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Pension Code.|Article 3 - Police Pension Fund - Municipalities 500,000 And Under

Sec. 3-114.6.     Occupational disease disability pension.(a) This Section applies only to police officers who are employed by a  municipality with a combined police and fire department and who have regular  firefighting duties in addition to their law enforcement duties.(b) The General Assembly finds that service in a police department that also  has firefighting duties requires officers to perform unusual tasks in times of  stress and danger; that officers are subject to exposure to extreme heat or  extreme cold in certain seasons while performing their duties; that they are  required to work in the midst of and are subject to heavy smoke fumes and  carcinogenic, poisonous, toxic, or chemical gases from fires; and that these  conditions exist and arise out of or in the course of employment.(c) An active officer with 5 or more years of creditable service who is  found to be unable to perform his or her duties in the department by reason  of heart disease, stroke, tuberculosis, or any disease of the lungs or  respiratory tract, resulting from service as an officer, is entitled to an  occupational disease disability pension during any period of such disability  for which he or she has no right to receive salary.An active officer who has completed 5 or more years of service and is unable  to perform his or her duties in the department by reason of a disabling cancer,  which develops or manifests itself during a period while the officer is in the  service of the department, is entitled to receive an occupational disease  disability benefit during any period of such disability for which he or she  does not have a right to receive salary.  In order to receive this occupational  disease disability benefit, (i) the cancer must be of a type that may  be caused by exposure to heat, radiation, or a known carcinogen as defined by  the International Agency for Research on Cancer and (ii) the cancer must (and  is rebuttably presumed to) arise as a result of service as an officer.An officer who, after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1998,  enters the service of a combined police and fire department and has regular  firefighting duties shall be examined by one or more practicing physicians  appointed by the board.  If the examination discloses impairment of the heart,  lungs, or respiratory tract, or the existence of cancer, the officer shall not  be entitled to an occupational disease disability pension under this Section  unless and until a subsequent examination reveals no such impairment or cancer.The occupational disease disability pension shall be equal to the greater  of 65% of the salary  attached to the rank held by the officer at the time of his or her removal  from the municipality's department payroll or (2) the retirement pension that  the police officer would be eligible to receive if he or she retired (but not  including any automatic annual increase in that retirement pension).The occupational disease disability pension is payable to the officer  during the period of the disability.  If the disability ceases before the  death of the officer, the disability pension payable under this Section  shall also cease and the officer thereafter shall receive such pension  benefits as are provided in accordance with other provisions of this Article.If an officer dies while still disabled and receiving a disability pension  under this Section, the disability pension shall continue to be paid to  the officer's survivors in the sequence provided in Section 3-112.    (Source: P.A. 90-766, eff. 8-14-98; 91-939, eff. 2-1-01.)