§ 1-100 FORFEITURE OF PENSION.

   When any person who shall receive any benefits from any funds of the Police Pension and Retirement System, as authorized by this article, shall be convicted of any felony, or shall have become an habitual drunkard, or shall have failed to report himself or herself for duty as by this article required, unless excused by the Board of Trustees, or shall disobey the rules of the Board of Trustees in respect to the examination for duty or otherwise, then the Board shall order that the pension allowance, as may have been granted to the person, shall immediately cease and the person shall receive no further pension allowance or benefit as authorized to be paid by this article, unless or until, if possible, the person shall have met the requirements for the Board.

(`90 Code, § 1-47)

§ 1-101 INSUFFICIENT FUNDS; PROBATION.

   In any case where the funds of the Police Pension and Retirement System of the city are insufficient to make full payments of the amounts of pension or allowance to all persons entitled thereto, then the Fund shall be prorated among those entitled thereto as the Board of Trustees may deem just and equitable.

(`90 Code, § 1-48)

§ 1-102 DETERMINATION OF ONE YEAR OF SERVICE.

   The governing body of the city, having established a Board of Trustees as in this article provided, may fix and determine how much service in any year is equivalent to one year of service, but in no case shall more than one year of service be creditable for all service in one calendar year, nor shall credit as service for any period of more than one months duration be allowed during which the police officer was absent without pay.

(`90 Code, § 1-49)

§ 1-103 EXEMPTION.

   No portion of the funds of Police Pension and Retirement System shall, either before or after any order made by the Board of Trustees for payment to any person entitled to a pension, or allowance, be held, seized, taken, subject to or detained, or levied on by virtue of any garnishment, attachment, execution, injunction or other order or decree, or any process or proceeding whatever, which have issued out of or by any court of this state, for the payment or satisfaction in whole, or in part, of any debt, damages, claim, demand or judgment against any person entitled to payment, nor shall the payments or any claims thereunto be directly or indirectly assigned and any attempt to transfer or assign the same shall be void.

(`90 Code, § 1-50)

§ 1-104 TRANSFER OF FUNDS.

   If the city subsequently disqualified by failure to meet the minimum requirements of this article, the City Treasurer shall immediately transfer to the general fund of the city the Police Pension and Retirement System Fund, and the balance, which is to the credit of the police officer, shall be paid to each of them in the proportions as each of the police officers have contributed to the fund by deduction from their salaries or otherwise.

(`90 Code, § 1-51)

§ 1-105 APPEALS.

   (A)   Any police officer who has been denied pension or retirement pay from the Board of Trustees where applications for the pension or retirement pay was made or he or she feels that he or she was not given a fair and just consideration may appeal from the decision of the Board to the City Council and the decision of the City Council shall be final.

   (B)   The appeal above provided for shall be taken by filing in the Office of the City Manager a copy of the entire proceedings had before the Board of Trustees, including all evidence offered and produced at the hearing. The Secretary of the Board of Trustees shall certify that the record so taken on appeal contains all proceedings and the evidence offered before the Board of Trustees.

(`90 Code, § 1-52)

§ 1-106 CITY PHYSICIAN.

   In the event there is no official city physician, then any physician designated by the City Manger may perform the duties provided herein for the city physician.

(`90 Code, § 1-53)

ARTICLE 8: OLD AGE, SURVIVORS', AND DISABILITY INSURANCE

§ 1-120 BENEFITS EXTENDED.

   It is hereby declared to be the policy and purpose of the city to extend, at the earliest date, to the employees and officials thereof, not excluded by law or this article, and whether employed in connection with a governmental or proprietary function, the benefits of the Old Age, Survivors’, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) (42 USC 401 et seq.) as authorized by the Federal Social Security Act and amendments thereto, including P.L. 734, 81st Congress. In pursuant of the policy, and for that purpose, the city shall take such action as may be required by applicable state or federal laws or regulations.

(`90 Code, § 1-54)