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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.510 - Definitions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories
86.510. Definitions. —
The following words and phrases as used in sections 86.510 to 86.577, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:
(1)
"Board of police commissioners"
shall mean any board of police, board of police commissioners, police commissioners and any other officials, or board now or hereafter authorized by law to employ and manage a permanent police force in said cities;
(2)
"Pension system"
shall mean the police pension system of said cities;
(3)
"Policeman"
or
"member of the police department"
shall mean any regularly employed officer or employee of the police department of said cities employed and commissioned by the board of police commissioners of the said cities for police duty but shall not include any police commissioner or anyone employed in a clerical or other capacity not involving police duties and not commissioned by the said board as a police officer. In case of doubt as to whether any person is a policeman within the meaning of sections 86.510 to 86.577, decision of the board of trustees shall be final.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9497)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.511 - Pensions to be paid monthly.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
86.511. Pensions to be paid monthly. —
Any pension authorized by sections 86.510 to 86.577 shall be paid to the recipient entitled thereto in equal monthly installments.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9497)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.513 - First class cities may provide pension fund for police department.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 1953, 2 histories
86.513. First class cities may provide pension fund for police department. —
Municipal authorities, by ordinance, in all cities of the first class in this state, having an organized police department, or having an organized fire department, may provide for a pension fund for the pensioning of retired, crippled or disabled members of such police department or such fire department, and the dependent widow and minor children of deceased members, and such cities may appropriate or set apart from special or general municipal funds such percent or amount as may be fixed by the ordinance therefor, subject to existing constitutional or statutory limitations, said fund to be managed by a board of trustees, and the treasurer of said city shall be the treasurer of said funds.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9477, A.L. 1953 p. 265)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8919
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9478)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8920
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 01 Aug 1979, 2 histories, see footnote
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.
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(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
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.523 - Refund of contributions, when — exceptions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9479, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327, A.L. 1961 p. 210)
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9479, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8921
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9480)
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9481)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8922
CROSS REFERENCE:
Multinational banks, securities and obligations of, investment in, when, 409.950
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9482)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8923
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9483, A.L. 1973 H.B. 106)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8926
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9484)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.547 - Widow eligible for payments, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(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
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.549 - Special consultants, eligibility, compensation for.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(L. 1973 H.B. 106)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.550 - Persons ineligible for membership.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9486, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 327)
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9487)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8925
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.557 - Funeral expenses, when, amount.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9492, A.L. 1973 H.B. 106)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8931
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9489)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8928
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9491)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8930
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9493)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.570 - Pension may be terminated, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9494)
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9488)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8927
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.577 - Annual report of pension fund.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9490)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8929
2023 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.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
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.
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(L. 1947 V. II p. 330 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.583 - Municipalities in first class counties and certain cities may provide pensions — approval by voters.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978, 2 histories
86.583. Municipalities in first class counties and certain cities may provide pensions — approval by voters. —
1. Any municipality in any county of the first class, and any other municipality in this state which now contains or may hereafter contain not more than one hundred thousand inhabitants nor less than three thousand inhabitants as determined by the last preceding federal census is hereby authorized to provide for the pensioning of the salaried members of its organized police force or fire department and the widows and minor children of deceased members; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any pension or retirement system for members of an organized police force or fire department, and their widows or minor children, which has been established previously under authority of an act of the general assembly and which is in operation at the time of the passage of this section, and the provisions of law applicable to any such pension or retirement system shall not be deemed to be repealed or superseded by the provisions of this section. This section shall not take effect in any such city until approved by the voters thereof as herein provided. On order of the city council, or on petition of five percent of the voters of said city, the question shall be submitted to the voters.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the (police or firemen's insert one) pension plan be approved?
3. If a majority of the voters casting votes thereon is in favor of the question, this section shall take effect in said city thirty days after the submission of the question.
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(L. 1945 p. 1267 § 1, A.L. 1955 p. 276, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.584 - Contributing members of retirement system to be represented on board of trustees.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
Effective - 28 Aug 1990
86.584. Contributing members of retirement system to be represented on board of trustees. —
If the police and firemen's pension system established under the provisions of section 86.583 requires a contribution from the members of the organized police or fire department, then at least one voting member of the board of trustees shall be a member of the organized police department or fire department elected by the contributing members, and if the system serves both the police and the fire departments, a member of both the organized police department and of the fire department shall be voting members of the board of trustees elected by the contributing members.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1675)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.590 - Board of trustees authorized to invest funds, how.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
Effective - 28 Aug 2009, 2 histories
86.590. Board of trustees authorized to invest funds, how. —
The board of trustees of police and firemen's pension systems, established under the provisions of section 86.583, may invest and reinvest the moneys of the system, and may hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer or dispose of any of the securities and investments in which such moneys shall have been invested, as well as the proceeds of such investments and such moneys. The board of trustees of police and firemen's pension systems, established under the provisions of section 86.583, shall invest the funds of the system as permitted by sections 105.687 to 105.690.
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(L. 1965 p. 212, A.L. 1969 p. 156, A.L. 1974 S.B. 423, A.L. 1995 H.B. 260 merged with H.B. 416, et al., A.L. 2009 H.B. 593 merged with S.B. 161)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Multinational banks, securities and obligations of, investments in, when, 409.950
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.810 - Hancock provision to void sections.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
Effective - 28 Aug 1999
86.810. Hancock provision to void sections. —
The provisions of any other law notwithstanding, the board of trustees of any retirement system, the provisions of which are governed by this chapter, or any political subdivision which funds such retirement system, shall have standing to seek a declaratory judgment concerning the application of Article X, Section 21 of the Missouri Constitution to the provisions of this chapter. In the event a final judgment is rendered by a court which judgment determines that any provision of this chapter constitutes a new activity or service or increase in the level of an activity or service beyond that required by existing law under Article X, Section 21 of the Missouri Constitution, or any successor to that section, that provision of this chapter shall be void ab initio and any new benefit or feature required by such provision of this chapter shall be deemed not to have accrued and shall not be payable to members.
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(L. 1997 H.B. 331, A.L. 1999 S.B. 308 & 314)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.910 - Police retirement system created — election to continue system after decline in population.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.910. Police retirement system created — election to continue system after decline in population. —
In all cities that now have or may hereafter attain a population of more than three hundred thousand and less than seven hundred thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding federal decennial census, there are hereby created and established retirement or pension systems for the purpose of providing retirement allowances for police officers of such cities. Any city which has established a police retirement system under the provisions of sections 86.370 to 86.497 or sections 86.900 to 86.1280 may elect to continue its police retirement system under the provisions of sections 86.900 to 86.1280 even though the city may cease to have the population described in this section, and any city so electing to continue its established police retirement system shall be excused from creating or maintaining any other police retirement system under any other provisions of the Missouri statutes. Each system shall be under the management of a retirement board to be known as the "Police Retirement System of (name of city)", and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, and all of its cash and other property held. The retirement systems so created shall begin operation on the effective date of sections 86.370 to 86.497.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.920 - Retirement board established, responsibility for operation of retirement system.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.920. Retirement board established, responsibility for operation of retirement system. —
The general administration and the responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of sections 86.900 to 86.1280 are hereby vested in a retirement board of nine persons.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.940 - Voting rights of board members.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.940. Voting rights of board members. —
Each member of the retirement board shall be entitled to one vote in the decisions of the board. Five votes or more in favor shall be necessary to pass a motion by the retirement board at any meeting of the board.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.950 - Board to establish policies — officers and employees.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.950. Board to establish policies — officers and employees. —
1. Subject to the limitations of sections 86.900 to 86.1280, the retirement board shall from time to time establish policies for the administration of its assets, for the transaction of its business and for the conduct of nominations and elections of the elected members of the retirement board.
2. The retirement board shall elect from its membership a chairman, a vice chairman, and a treasurer, and shall by majority vote of its members appoint a secretary, who may be, but need not be, one of its members. The offices of secretary and of treasurer shall not be held by the same person. The retirement board may employ such actuarial, legal, and other services as may be necessary to transact the business of the retirement system. The compensation of all persons employed by the retirement board and all other expenses of the board necessary for the operation of the retirement system shall be paid in such manner as the retirement board shall determine; provided that the compensation of such persons as may be employed by the retirement board shall not be greater than the compensation paid for comparable abilities by the governments of the cities in which the retirement board is located.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.951 - Board deemed a state agency — rulemaking authority.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.951. Board deemed a state agency — rulemaking authority. —
The retirement board shall be deemed to be a state agency within the meaning of chapter 536. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in sections 86.900 to 86.1280 shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2005, shall be invalid and void.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.960 - Data and records — annual report — actuarial study — appointment of a medical board — common seal.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.960. Data and records — annual report — actuarial study — appointment of a medical board — common seal. —
1. The retirement board shall keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for administration of the retirement system. The retirement board shall keep a record of all its proceedings which shall be open to public inspection.
2. The retirement board shall publish annually a statement reporting the operations of the retirement system for the year, including income and disbursements during the year and the financial condition of the retirement system at the end of the year, including actuarial valuation and valuations of its assets and liabilities as of April thirtieth of each year. Such statement shall be consistent with results reviewed and approved by independent certified public accountants selected by the board. One copy of the annual report shall be delivered to each member of the retirement board and each member of the board of police commissioners, and one copy shall be filed with the city clerk. Copies of the report shall be made conveniently available to each member of the retirement system.
3. The retirement board shall cause an actuarial study and calculation to be made annually based upon the experiences of the retirement system by an independent firm of pension actuaries.
4. The retirement board shall appoint a medical board of not more than three physicians, each of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the retirement board, to arrange for and conduct medical examinations as requested by the retirement board.
5. The retirement board shall adopt a common seal.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.970 - Compensation of board members.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.970. Compensation of board members. —
The members of the retirement board shall be compensated in full for all services rendered under the provisions of sections 86.900 to 86.1280 at the rate of ten dollars per business session actually attended but no member shall be so compensated in an amount exceeding one hundred fifty dollars in any fiscal year regardless of the amount of services rendered or the number of business sessions actually attended. The members of the board shall be reimbursed from the funds of the police retirement system for all necessary expenses which they may incur on such board, in addition to their compensation for services.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.980 - Board members in active police service, leave to attend educational seminars.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.980. Board members in active police service, leave to attend educational seminars. —
Each member of the retirement board who is in active service with the police department of a city as either a police officer, as defined in section 86.900, or as an employee, as defined in section 86.1310, shall be granted authorized leave with pay by such police department to attend any and all educational seminars and like functions that have been authorized by the retirement board, including travel time to and from such functions, not to exceed ten days in any calendar year. Leave granted under this section shall not reduce vacation or other authorized leave time to which such member may be entitled without reference to this section.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.990 - Board to certify amount to be paid by city, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013, 2 histories
86.990. Board to certify amount to be paid by city, when. —
The retirement board shall before October fifteenth of each year certify to the chief financial officer of such city the amount to be paid by the city under the retirement pension system for the succeeding fiscal year, as otherwise provided by sections 86.900 to 86.1280.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323, A.L. 2013 H.B. 116 merged with H.B. 418)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.1000 - Contributions to pension fund by city — board to certify to board of police commissioners amount required.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013, 2 histories
86.1000. Contributions to pension fund by city — board to certify to board of police commissioners amount required. —
1. The city shall contribute to the pension fund quarter-annually or at such lesser intervals as may be agreed upon by the city and the retirement board. Such contribution shall be in addition to and separate from the appropriations made by the city for the operation of the police department. For each fiscal year of the operation of the pension system, the city's contribution to the pension fund shall be a percentage of the compensation paid to members of the pension system from which a member's deduction has been made under section 86.1010. The city's contribution shall be the total of the following amounts:
(1) Such amounts as may be necessary to meet the requirements for the annual actuarial required contributions as determined by a qualified professional actuary selected by the retirement board;
(2) An amount of two-hundred dollars per month for every member entitled to receive a supplemental benefit under section 86.1230 or section 86.1231.
­­Such total of said amounts shall be certified by the retirement board to the chief financial officer of said city as provided in section 86.990.
2. On or before October fifteenth of each year the retirement board shall certify to the board of police commissioners the amount of money that will be required to comply with the provisions of this section during the next succeeding fiscal year including administration expenses. The amounts so certified shall be included by the board of police commissioners in their annual budget estimate, and shall be appropriated by the cities and transferred to the pension fund during the ensuing fiscal year.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323, A.L. 2013 H.B. 116 merged with H.B. 418)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.1010 - Members' retirement contributions, amount, how determined.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013, 2 histories
86.1010. Members' retirement contributions, amount, how determined. —
Except as provided in subsection 5 of section 86.1100, the board of police commissioners shall cause to be deducted from the compensation of each member who is accruing creditable service a percentage of such member's compensation as determined by the retirement board, as such member's contribution to the pension fund. The sum so deducted shall be paid by the board of police commissioners promptly after each payroll to the retirement board to be credited to the member's account. Every member shall be deemed to consent to the deductions made and provided for herein. The board of police commissioners shall certify to the retirement board on every payroll the amount deducted, and such amounts shall be paid into the pension fund and shall be credited to the individual pension account of the member from whose compensation such deduction was made.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323, A.L. 2013 H.B. 116 merged with H.B. 418)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 86 - Police Relief and Pension Systems › Section 86.1040 - Retirement benefits not subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment — tax-exempt status of funds.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 86
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
86.1040. Retirement benefits not subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment — tax-exempt status of funds. —
The right of any person to pension or pensions, to the return of contributions, disability or death benefits, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of sections 86.900 to 86.1280 and the moneys in the various funds created under sections 86.900 to 86.1280 shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically provided in sections 86.900 to 86.1280, and except for court orders or assignments approved by a court to provide support for family members or a former spouse of any person entitled to benefits under sections 86.900 to 86.1280. The moneys in the various funds created under sections 86.900 to 86.1280 are hereby exempt from any tax of the state of Missouri or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof. A revocable request or authorization by a member or a beneficiary to withhold and apply for the requester's convenience some portion or all of a benefit payment shall not be deemed an assignment prohibited under this section provided that any such request shall remain revocable at all times except as to payments or withholdings effected prior to any such revocation. The retirement system may, but shall not be obligated to, comply with any such request.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 323)