PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

A. Miscellaneous

 

§88-1  Restrictions.  The provisions ofthis section shall be applicable to every pension and to every recipient orbeneficiary thereof, granted or provided for by any special act of thelegislature (other than benefits, or the recipients thereof, payable tobeneficiaries or retirants of the employees' retirement system under parts II,VII, and VIII) whether the pension be payable by the State or by any county, orby any board, commission, bureau, department, or other agency thereof:

(1)  No recipient or beneficiary shall be permitted todraw any pension, or any portion thereof, in excess of $50 per month, while therecipient or beneficiary is holding any salaried position or office in, underor by authority of the United States, the State, or any political subdivisionthereof.  This paragraph shall not apply to any recipient or beneficiary who iselected to the legislature or to the council of any county.

(2)  If the recipient or beneficiary is a survivingspouse or reciprocal beneficiary, the pension so granted shall cease when thesurviving spouse or reciprocal beneficiary remarries, marries, or enters into anew reciprocal beneficiary relationship.

(3)  Any pension payable to any minor shall cease whenthe minor reaches the age of eighteen years.

(4)  If any recipient or beneficiary of a pension,having a spouse or reciprocal beneficiary at the time the pension was firstgranted to the recipient or beneficiary dies, then the spouse or reciprocalbeneficiary, as long as the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary remains unmarriedor not in a reciprocal beneficiary relationship, shall be paid sixty per centof the amount of the pension payable to the beneficiary. [L 1933, c 157, §1; RL1935, §7915; am L 1943, c 44, §1; RL 1945, §631; am L 1947, c 28, §1; RL 1955,§6-1; HRS §88-1; am L 1969, c 110, pt of §1; am L 1974, c 118, §1(1); gen ch1985; am L 1997, c 383, §25; am L 2006, c 169, §2]