Chap. 411.—An ACT to authorize the police commissioners of the city of Rich-
mond to require all police officers to contribute to the Police Benevolent Associa-
tion under certain conditions.

Approved March 29, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the police
commissioners of the city of Richmond, in order to foster and encourage
the corporation known as the Police Benevolent Association of Rich-
mond, Virginia, which has for its object the accumulation of a fund in
order to provide by the way of a pension for the maintenance and support
of those members of the police department of the city of Richmond who,
after honorable service in said department, shall be dropped therefrom
by reason of sickness, old age, wounds, or other infirmities, be, and they
are hereby, empowered, in their discretion, to make a requirement of any
person hereafter appointed on the police force, that he shall for the first
year of his service under such appointment, contribute the sum of ten
dollars per month to said association, and for the second and third years
of his service five dollars per month, and thereafter during his term of
service he shall contribute to said association a sum equal to the dues
fixed by said association. And said police commissioners are hereby au-
thorized, in their discretion, to require, before any appointment shall be
made to the police force under this section, that the applicant agree in
writing to comply with the provisions of this section, and upon failure of
any police officer after such appointment to comply with such agreement,
said board of police commissioners may vacate the appointment of such
officer and elect some other person in his stead.

2. That all the members of police force now serving on said force shall
hereafter contribute a sum equal to the dues fixed by said association to
entitle one to be a member thereof, and any member of the police force
failing to make such contribution as provided for in this section, or at
the time of his reappointment refusing or failing to agree to pay said
sum, shall not be eligible to reappointment at the end of his term of
service.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.