10. Any contributor to said fund who shall have been in the service of said house of correction for a period of twenty (20) years, and shall have contributed to said fund for the same period, shall have the right to retire and become a beneficiary under this Act after July 1, 1916, and receive a benefit or annuity, which shall be the sum of six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum, for each and every beneficiary of said pension fund, the said annuity to be paid in equal monthly installments, and in case of insufficient funds in the treasury, the treasurer shall be empowered to pay to the beneficiaries a pro rata amount of the sum in the treasury, said pro rata amount to be divided equally among the beneficiaries entitled to the same.

§ 8. Upon the death of any contributor or any beneficiary who before becoming a beneficiary contributed to said fund the said board of trustees shall pay an annuity not to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum, to be paid in equal monthly installments to the widow as long as she remains the same of such deceased contributor or beneficiary: Provided, she has been his wife one (1) year before his death, and if there is no widow eligible, said board of trustees shall pay said annuity to the child or children of such deceased contributor or beneficiary, until such time as the youngest child shall reach the age of sixteen (16) years; if there be no widow eligible and no child or children eligible, the annuity shall be paid to the mother of such deceased contributor or beneficiary as long as she may live.

§ 9. Any person who has been an employee of said house of correction for a period of twenty (20) years or more and has contributed to said fund for a period of not less than twenty (20) years or shall pay into the fund the equivalent of twenty (20) years contribution thereto, consisting of two (2) per cent of the salary received from such house of correction, may retire from the service of said house of correction upon sixty (60) days' notice, to be given to said board of trustees (unless such notice is waived by said board of trustees) and become an annuitant under this Act after July 1, 1916.

§ 10. Any person who has contributed to said fund for a period of three (3) years or more may retire from the service of said house of correction on account of serious disability rendering him or her unable to properly discharge his or her duties, upon ninety (90) days' notice to be given to the board of trustees (unless such notice is waived by said board of trustees) and may become an annuitant under this Act, and thereupon be entitled to receive the annuity allowed by the board of trustees not to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars, until such time as he or she shall be able to properly discharge his or her duties or until death, when said board of trustees shall pay annuity hereinbefore provided not to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per year to the widow (as long as she remains the same of such deceased contributor: Provided, she has been his wife one (1) year previous to his death), to the child or children, or the mother of the deceased contributor as hereinbefore provided.

§ 11. No contributor shall receive any benefit from said fund on account of disability unless there be filed with the board of trustees of the fund a certificate of his or her disability which certificate shall be

subscribed and sworn to by the house of correction physician (if there be one) and one practicing physician of the city where such house of correction is located.

§ 12. When any contributor to said fund, who has been in the service of the house of correction for a period of twenty (20) years, has contributed to said fund for the same period and has retired and become a beneficiary under this Act, shall then marry, such wife of such marriage shall after his death receive no benefit nor annuity from said fund.

Any widow or child or children receiving benefits or annuities under an "Act to provide for the setting apart, formation, and disbursement of a house of correction employees' pension fund in the cities having a population exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) inhabitants," approved and in force July 1, 1911, will receive their benefits or annuities, will be increased from four hundred and eighty ($480.00) dollars per year to not more than six hundred ($600.00) dollars per

year.

The term "child" or "children" under this Act shall not include adopted child or children, nor shall it include a step-child or stepchildren of any contributor to aforesaid pension fund.

§ 13. The chairman of the board of inspectors and the superintendent of the house of correction shall certify monthly to the treasurer all amounts deducted in accordance with the provisions of this Act from the salaries paid by the house of correction, which amounts, as well as all other sums contributed to said fund under the provisions of this Act, shall be set apart and held by said treasurer for the purpose herein before specified, subject to the order of said board of trustees and shall be paid out upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of said board of trustees.

§ 14. All annuities granted under the provisions of this Act shall be exempt from attachment and garnishment process and no annuitant shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her annuity either by way of mortgage or otherwise.

$ 15. Any person who shall directly or indirectly avoid or seek to avoid any or all the provisions of this Act, or shall directly or indirectly interfere with, or obstruct the enforcement of any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars, and not exceeding one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or both such fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This law shall take preference over all other laws and all laws and parts of laws which are onconsistent [inconsistent] with this Act or any provisions hereof are hereby repealed.

FILED July 11, 1919.

The Governor having failed to return this bill to the General Assembly during its session, and having failed to file it in my office, with his objections, within ten days after the adjournment of the General Assembly, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this 11th day of July, A. D. 1919.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

AN ACT to amend section 30 of an Act entitled: “An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," ap proved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 30 of An Act entitled: "An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 30. One year's leave of absence for professional preparation, granted by the proper authorities to any teacher under the provisions of this Act, shall be computed as a part of said twenty-five (25) years of service: Provided, that the payments to said fund shall be continued during said leave of absence at the same rate as if such person were in active service as such teacher. Such period or periods of absence in the aggregate shall be computed as a part of said twenty-five (25) years of service of said teacher; and in case of absence of less than a school year, only the time covered by such absence shall be so computed.

Any teacher who has elected to come under the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to compute as a part of his twenty-five (25) year period as such teacher, time spent in service with the military or naval forces of the United States during the Spanish-American War and during the war between the United States and Germany, by paying into the fund a sum equal to the amount he would have contributed if he had been a regular contributor during such period.

APPROVED June 23, 1919.

ILLINOIS STATE TEACHERS' PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 261. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 34 of an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 34 of an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to an Illinois State

Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund, approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as amended, are hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 1. There is hereby established an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund. This fund shall be managed by a Board of Trustees composed of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Treasurer, and three other persons, who shall be appointed by the Governor as hereinafter provided.

§ 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall be the president of the board, and the State Treasurer, who shall be the treasurer of the fund, shall serve as members of the board of trustees during the respective terms of office for which they shall have been elected. Each of the three persons who shall be appointed by the Governor shall serve as a member of the board of trustees for a term of three years, but the respective terms of office of the persons who are members of the board of trustees on the first day of July, 1919, shall not be abridged or diminished.

§ 3. On or before the first day of January, 1920, the Governor shall appoint one member of the board of trustees who shall hold office for a period of three years from January 1, 1920, and annually thereafter the Governor shall, on or before the first day of January of each year appoint one member of the board of trustees, who shall hold office for a period of three years. No person shall be appointed as a member of the board of trustees unless he or she is at the date of the appointment either a contributor or an annuitant under the provisions of this Act, nor unless he or she shall have filed his or her petition for appointment as a member of such board in the manner hereinafter provided.

§ 4. Any person who shall be possessed of the required qualifications and who shall desire to be appointed as a member of the board of trustees shall file his or her petition for appointment, with the Superintendent of Public Instruction not less than thirty days prior to the date when the appointment petitioned for shall become effective. Such petition shall be signed by not less than one hundred (100) contributors or annuitants. Such petition shall also state the post office addresses of signers and if any signer is then engaged in teaching school the name and district number of the school in which such signer is teaching, together with the name of the county and state in which such school is located. Not less than twenty days prior to the date when the appointment petitioned for shall become effective the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall certify to the Governor the names of all persons for whom petitions for appointment have been filed. Such names shall be certified alphabetically in the order of those whose petitions have been filed. From the list of names so certified the Governor shall appoint one member of the board of trustees. If no such petitions are filed the Governor shall have power to appoint any qualified contributor or annuitant.

5. Whenever any person who shall have been appointed by the Governor as a member of the board of trustees shall cease to be a contributor or an annuitant under the provisions of this Act, his office shall become vacant. All vacancies in the appointive membership in the

board of trustees, shall be filled for the unexpired term by a duly quali fied person appointed by the board of trustees, whose term of office shall extend only for the time of such vacancy.

§ 6. The State Treasurer shall be ex-officio treasurer of said board, and shall receive and make payments from and account for said funds in the same manner as for other State funds, except as hereinafter provided. Said treasurer shall safely keep such funds, subject to the control and direction of the board of trustees, and shall keep his books and accounts in such manner as may be prescribed by said board, and said books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of said board, or any member thereof. Said treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the proper performance of his duties and the conservation of the fund created by this Act. Said board shall employ a secretary, for such term as may be determined, who shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the board.

§ 34. The term "teacher", as used in this Act, shall include any teacher, teacher-secretary, substitute teacher, supervisor, principal, supervising principal, superintendent or assistant superintendent who shall teach or be employed in the public schools of the State: Provided, however, that service as county superintendent or assistant county superintendent may be counted as a part of the twenty-five years of service required to enable a teacher to receive the annuities provided for in this Act: And, provided, further, that service as a substitute teacher shall not be counted as a part of the twenty-five years of service required to enable a teacher to receive the annuities provided for by this Act unless the substitute teacher shall be employed for the school year and paid monthly for such service.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

ILLINOIS STATE TEACHERS' PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND. § 25a. How ex-teacher may become a beneficiary.

§ 1. Adds section 25a to Act of 1915.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 93. FILED JULY 11, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as amended by adding thereto a section to be known as section 25a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: An Act entitled: "An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as amended is amended by adding thereto a section to be known as section 25a to read as follows:

§ 25a. Any person who is a resident of the State of Illinois, not now employed as a teacher or not now the holder of a certificate to teach, and who at the time of going into effect of this Act, had served twenty-five years (25) as a teacher as defined by section 34 of this Act, three-fifths of which period had been in the public schools in the State of Illinois, may become a beneficiary of the Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund and receive the annuity provided