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MO Rev Stat § 86.517 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.517 - Board of trustees of policemen's pension fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.517. Board of trustees of policemen's pension fund. — The city treasurer, counselor, city clerk and comptroller, or such other officers exercising such functions while holding such office, and the chief officer of the police department, two delegates at large from the police department to be selected by the members thereof annually, whose term of office shall be one year and two delegates from the pensioned list, if any, to be selected by such retired or pensioned members on the thirtieth day of June of each year, who shall hold office for one year, shall constitute and be a board by the name of "The Board of Trustees of the Policemen's Pension Fund". The said board shall make all needful rules and regulations for its government in the discharge of its duties. The board shall select from their members a president and secretary and shall establish their own order of business. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9478)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8920
MO Rev Stat § 86.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.520 - Board to have exclusive control and management of funds.

Effective - 01 Aug 1979, 2 histories   86.520. Board to have exclusive control and management of funds. — The board shall have exclusive control and management of funds created for the purpose herein and of all moneys donated, paid or received for the relief or pensioning of retired or disabled members of the police department, their widows and minor children, and may have an assessment from each member of at least five percent but not more than ten percent of the salary of such member, the contribution to be placed by the treasurer to the credit of such fund, subject to the order of the board. The percent rate shall not be changed without the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9479, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327, A.L. 1953 p. 300 § 86.340, A.L. 1979 H.B. 850)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8921  Effective 8-01-79
MO Rev Stat § 86.523 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.523 - Refund of contributions, when — exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961, 2 histories   86.523. Refund of contributions, when — exceptions. — In the event of resignation or dismissal from the force, any member who has faithfully served at least five years and less than twenty-five years in the department shall receive a refund from the pension fund of all moneys he may have theretofore paid in as salary contribution, except thirty-three and one-third percent of his salary contribution the member shall have paid into the fund, except that no refund shall be made from the fund because of the death or retirement of members or when the resignation or dismissal of a member from the force was occasioned or required by the culpable misconduct of the member. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9479, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327, A.L. 1961 p. 210)
MO Rev Stat § 86.527 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.527 - Board's decision on applications for relief or pension to be final.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947, 2 histories   86.527. Board's decision on applications for relief or pension to be final. — Said board shall hear and decide all applications for such relief or pensions under sections 86.510 to 86.577, and its decisions on such applications shall be final and conclusive and not subject to a review and reversal except by the board, and a record shall be kept by its secretary of all meetings and proceedings of the board which may convene at any time, by order of the president of the board or a majority of the members of said board. Said board of trustees shall serve without pay. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9479, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8921
MO Rev Stat § 86.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.530 - Rewards, fees, gifts, shall be paid into pension fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.530. Rewards, fees, gifts, shall be paid into pension fund. — All rewards in money, fees, gifts and endowments that may be paid or given for or on account of extraordinary services by said police department or any member thereof, except when permitted by the board of police commissioners to be retained by said member, shall be paid into said pension fund. The board of trustees may take by gift, grant, devise or bequest of any money, real estate, personal property, right of property or other valuable things, and the same shall be treated as a part of and for the uses of said fund. All fines and penalties imposed upon members of the department for dereliction of duty or violating any order or regulation, shall form part of said fund. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9480)
MO Rev Stat § 86.533 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.533 - Trustees may invest funds in certain bonds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 3 histories   86.533. Trustees may invest funds in certain bonds. — The said board of trustees shall have power by a majority vote to draw said pension money from the treasury of such city and invest such funds or any part thereof in the name of "Board of Trustees of the Policemen's Pension Fund", in interest-bearing bonds of the United States, of the state of Missouri, of any county, township or municipal corporation of the state, or for the purchase of any judgment in any court of record in this state, or loan same on real estate in the city when such pension fund is established, not, however, exceeding sixty percent of the assessed taxpaying valuation of such real estate, and all such securities shall be deposited with the treasurer, which shall be subject to the order of the board. No loans on real estate shall be made drawing less than four percent net interest and such interest shall become a part of the fund when received; provided, that no member of the board of trustees shall obtain a loan directly or indirectly from this fund. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9481)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8922  CROSS REFERENCE:  Multinational banks, securities and obligations of, investment in, when, 409.950
MO Rev Stat § 86.537 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.537 - Trustees shall pay disabled members from pension fund, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.537. Trustees shall pay disabled members from pension fund, when. — If any member of the police department of any such city shall, while in the performance of his duty and not otherwise, become and be found upon examination by a medical officer selected by such board and authorized by said applicant, to be physically or mentally permanently disabled by reason of service in such department, so as to render necessary his retirement from service from said department, said board of trustees may, if it finds such applicant is entitled to be pensioned, pay the said disabled member from said pension fund the sum equal to one-half the average monthly rate of salary which such member shall have received on said force during three years immediately preceding the date of his retirement; except, if such member shall have served less than three years in said department, the average monthly rate of salary shall be computed by the board of trustees. On the other hand, if said physician or physicians shall find the applicant is disabled from further service from disease contracted or injuries sustained outside of the services of the police department then said applicant shall be permitted to receive as a refund the amount he would receive under section 86.523 if he should be dismissed or resign from the police department; provided, that any pension granted to any member of such pension fund for disability provided in this section shall cease if such member shall recover from said disability, provided such member shall be restored to active duty in such force, the said board of trustees to be at all times the final authority in determining all matters pertaining to the granting or termination of the pensions, refunds, or allowances, awarded as provided for in this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9482)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8923
MO Rev Stat § 86.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.540 - Retirement, when, amount — surviving spouse, children under eighteen eligible, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973, 2 histories   86.540. Retirement, when, amount — surviving spouse, children under eighteen eligible, when. — 1. Any member of the police department of any such city having served faithfully twenty-five years or more in the department, of which the last three years shall be continuous, may make application to be relieved from the department, and in such event or if any such member is removed, suspended or discharged from the department after such tenure of service the board of trustees shall order and direct that the person shall be paid a monthly pension equal to one-half the average monthly rate of salary which the member received on the force during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of his retirement.  2. Any member who remains on active duty in the department and continues to make regular and periodic payments into the pension fund as provided in sections 86.510 to 86.577 for a period of time beyond twenty-five years, shall, upon subsequent retirement, be paid monthly, in addition to the retirement benefit provided in subsection 1 of this section, a sum equal to one percent of the average monthly salary of the member during the twelve months immediately preceding the effective date of his retirement for each full twelve month period beyond twenty-five years but not to exceed ten additional twelve month periods.  3. After the decease of the member, his wife while single, and children under eighteen years of age, if any survive him, shall be entitled to the pension provided for in sections 86.510 to 86.577. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9483, A.L. 1973 H.B. 106)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8926
MO Rev Stat § 86.543 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.543 - Pension shall be paid after twenty years of service in certain cases.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.543. Pension shall be paid after twenty years of service in certain cases. — If any member of the police department of any such city, who shall have served faithfully twenty years and less than twenty-five years in such department of which the last six years shall be continuous, be removed, suspended or discharged from such department, or become or be found upon examination by a medical officer selected by such board and authorized by said applicant to be superannuated, by age, permanently insane or mentally incapacitated or disabled physically or mentally so as to be unfitted or unable to perform full police duty by reason of such disability or disease so as to render necessary his retirement from service in such department, if the said board of trustees find such incapacity does not result from misconduct on the part of such member, it shall pay to the said member from said pension fund, a sum equal to four-fifths of one-half the average monthly rate of salary which such member shall have received on said force during three years immediately preceding the date of his retirement. After the decease of such member, his wife while single, and children under sixteen years of age, if any survive him, shall be entitled to the pension provided for in sections 86.510 to 86.577. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9484)
MO Rev Stat § 86.547 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.547 - Widow eligible for payments, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973, 2 histories   86.547. Widow eligible for payments, when. — 1. When a member of the department dies from any cause whatever while a member of the department or after retirement under the provisions of sections 86.510 to 86.577, and leaves a widow surviving, the board of trustees shall pay such widow from the pension fund, monthly, while unmarried, a sum equal to one-half the monthly pension which her husband received or would have received had he been retired on the date of his death or the sum of seventy-five dollars monthly, whichever is the greater amount. No pension shall be paid to any widow of a pensioner who has been retired on account of twenty years or more of service, unless she was married to the deceased pensioner at least five years immediately prior to the date of his retirement.  2. If there be any surviving children of the deceased member or pensioner under eighteen years of age, the pension payable to the widow shall be increased ten dollars per month for each dependent child if the decedent leave no widow, but does leave an orphan child or children, under the age of eighteen years, the child or children, collectively, shall receive a pension of thirty dollars monthly until the youngest child attains the age of eighteen years, but no child shall receive any pension after attaining the age of eighteen years. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9485, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327, A.L. 1961 p. 210, A.L. 1973 H.B. 106)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8924
MO Rev Stat § 86.549 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.549 - Special consultants, eligibility, compensation for.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973   86.549. Special consultants, eligibility, compensation for. — 1. Any person who, on September 28, 1973, is receiving retirement benefits under the provisions of sections 86.510 to 86.577, upon application to the board of trustees, shall be made, constituted, appointed, and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retirement, aging, and other retirement system matters, for the remainder of his life, and upon request of the board give opinions in writing, or orally, in response to the request, as may be required, and for such services shall be compensated monthly in an amount not to exceed fifteen percent of his monthly retirement benefits payable under the provisions of this chapter.  2. This compensation shall be consolidated with any other retirement benefits payable to such person under the provisions of this chapter, and shall be paid out of the same funds as are those other retirement benefits.  3. The employment provided for by sections 86.540, 86.547, 86.549 and 86.557 shall in no way affect any person's eligibility for retirement benefits under this chapter, or in any way have the effect of reducing retirement benefits, other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding. ­­-------- (L. 1973 H.B. 106)
MO Rev Stat § 86.550 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.550 - Persons ineligible for membership.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947, 2 histories   86.550. Persons ineligible for membership. — On and after the effective date of sections 86.510 to 86.577 no member of the police department thereafter appointed who is over the age of thirty-five years, that is, who has attained his thirty-sixth birthday, and who is unable to pass a physical examination by a physician designated by the board of trustees of the police pension fund, shall be eligible to become a member of such fund, except persons who had theretofore served not less than four years in said department, the last service being not more than five years before their reappointment to the department. If a member of the police department is appointed by the board of police commissioners, who is over thirty-five years of age, that is, has attained his thirty-sixth birthday, or is unable to pass a physical examination provided by sections 86.510 to 86.577, such member shall not be permitted to become a member of the police pension fund, nor shall he be liable for any assessments for the support of such fund; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the reappointment of any member of such force at the expiration of his term of appointment in such department. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9486, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327)
MO Rev Stat § 86.553 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.553 - Payments prorated if money insufficient for full payment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.553. Payments prorated if money insufficient for full payment. — If at any time there shall not be sufficient money in such pension fund to pay each person the full amount per month as herein provided, then an equal percentage of such monthly payment shall be made to each beneficiary until the said fund in the judgment of the board of trustees shall be sufficient in amount to resume the payment in full of such pension awards and the payment of sums previously deducted. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9487)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8925
MO Rev Stat § 86.557 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.557 - Funeral expenses, when, amount.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973, 2 histories   86.557. Funeral expenses, when, amount. — Whenever an active or retired policeman shall die as aforesaid, the board of trustees may appropriate from the fund, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars to his widow or legal heirs for funeral expenses. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9492, A.L. 1973 H.B. 106)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8931
MO Rev Stat § 86.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.560 - Payments from pension fund by warrants only.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.560. Payments from pension fund by warrants only. — All moneys ordered to be paid from such pension fund to any person or persons shall be paid by the treasurer only upon warrants signed by the president of the board and countersigned by the secretary thereof, and no warrants shall be drawn except by the order of the board, duly entered upon the records of the proceedings of the board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9489)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8928
MO Rev Stat § 86.563 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.563 - Payments from fund not to be diverted.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.563. Payments from fund not to be diverted. — No portion of said pension fund shall before or after its order of distribution by the board of trustees to the person entitled thereto, be held, seized, taken, subjected to or detained or levied on by virtue of any attachment, execution, injunction, writ, interlocutory or other order or decree or any process or proceedings whatever issued out of or by any court for the payment or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, damage, claim, demand or judgment against the beneficiary of this fund and no assignment by said beneficiary shall be valid, but the same shall be null and void, and said fund shall be held and distributed for the purpose of sections 86.510 to 86.577 solely to the persons entitled thereto and for no other purpose whatever. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9491)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8930
MO Rev Stat § 86.567 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.567 - Pensioners may be recalled to duty in an emergency.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.567. Pensioners may be recalled to duty in an emergency. — The board of police commissioners shall have the right to recall any person receiving a pension under sections 86.510 to 86.577 to active duty in an emergency, said person to receive full pay for the rank in which he may serve, but such person shall not be entitled to any payments out of such pension fund while serving on active duty. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9493)
MO Rev Stat § 86.570 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.570 - Pension may be terminated, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.570. Pension may be terminated, when. — The board of trustees of the police pension fund may in their discretion terminate and cease all pensions awarded to any member of the police department under the provisions of sections 86.510 to 86.577 if the pensioner is convicted of a felony or infamous crime. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9494)
MO Rev Stat § 86.573 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.573 - Books and accounts subject to inspection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.573. Books and accounts subject to inspection. — The treasurer shall be the custodian of said pension fund, subject to the control and direction of the board and shall keep a separate rate book and complete account concerning said fund, in such manner as may be prescribed by the board, and the books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of the board or any member thereof, and said treasurer shall be personally liable, and also liable on his bond executed to the city for the purpose of becoming said officer of the city. On the expiration of his term of office, he will surrender and deliver over to his successor all unexpended moneys and all property and evidence of indebtedness, and all other papers and records which may have come to his possession as treasurer of such funds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9488)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8927
MO Rev Stat § 86.577 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.577 - Annual report of pension fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories   86.577. Annual report of pension fund. — The board of trustees shall make report to the legislative body of said city of the condition of said pension fund on the first day of January on each and every year. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9490)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8929
MO Rev Stat § 86.580 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems|Section 86.580 - All cities — police and firemen, service in Armed Forces to be credited in determining pension rights.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947, 2 histories   86.580. All cities — police and firemen, service in Armed Forces to be credited in determining pension rights. — In all systems or plans heretofore or hereafter established by law or ordinance for the pensioning of the salaried members of the organized police force or fire department and the widows and minor children of deceased members, of any municipality of this state, for all honorably discharged members of the armed services of the United States in any war, who reenter or have reentered the service of any such police force or fire department within one year after such honorable discharge, service in such armed services shall be counted as service on such police force or fire department in determining the right to any pension. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. II p. 330 § 1)