13-14a03. Benefit and disability benefit rights under prior laws saved.
13-14a03
13-14a03. Benefit and disability benefit rights under prior laws
saved.
This act shall not affect the rights nor decrease the pension or
disability or retirement benefits of any officer or member of any fire or
police department, or his or her dependent or dependents, who has been
killed, permanently disabled or has died or retired under any previously
authorized and existing pension or retirement system, nor shall any officer
or any member of any fire or police department in service at the time of
the effective date of this act, who is at said time entitled to a pension
or disability benefit, receive any deduction in the pension or disability
benefit to which he or she is entitled under existing laws in force at the
effective date of this act. All such pensions and benefits shall be paid
from the policemen's pension fund or the firemen's pension fund created by
this act, as the case may be.
History: L. 1945, ch. 111, § 3; July 1.