CHAP. 305.—An ACT to provide for the pension, maintenance and support
of disabled firemen’s associations in cities having a population of one
hundred thousand and over.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of fire commissioners of cities having a population of
one hundred thousand and over, in order to foster, encourage and
promote the benevolent objects of corporations which have for
their 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 fire and fire-alarm departments of such cities,
who, after honorable service in said departments, shall be drop-
ped therefrom by reason of sickness, old age, wounds or other in-
firmities, the said board be, and they are hereby, empowered, in
their discretion, to make a requirement of any person hereafter
appointed in the fire department, or the fire-alarm department,
that he shall for the first year of his service under such appoint-
ment, contribute the sum of not less than three dollars nor more
than ten dollars per month to the said corporation, and for the
second and third years of his service, not less than two dollars nor
more than five dollars per month to the said corporation; these
amounts above referred to shall be definitely fixed by the said cor-
poration in accordance with conditions existing; and thereafter
during his term of service he shall contribute to the said corpora-
tion a sum equal to the dues fixed by the said corporation. And the
said board of fire commissioners are hereby authorized, in their
discretion, to require, before any appointment shall be made to
the fire department, or fire-alarm department, that the applicant
agree in writing to comply with the provisions of this section,
and upon failure of any fireman or member of the fire-alarm de-
partment after such appointment to comply with such agree-
ment, said board of fire commissioners may vacate the appoint-
ment of such fireman or member of the fire-alarm department
and elect some other person in his stead.

2. The said board of fire commissioners be, and they are
hereby, authorized to require all members of the fire depart-
ment, and the fire-alarm department, now serving in the said
department to contribute a sum equal to the dues fixed by the
said corporation, and he shall therefore be a member thereof, and
any member of the said departments failing to make such contri-
bution as provided for in this section, or at the time of his re-
appointment refusing or failing to agree to pay the sum pre-
scribed in section one hereof, shall not be eligible to re-appoint-
ment at the end of his term of service.

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