CHAPTER 485

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 5, 9 and 10, as amended, and 6 of Chapter
$08 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March 29, 1944, which
provided a retirement and pension system for personnel of police
departments in certain counties, the amended sections relating, re-
spectively, to widows’ and children’s benefits, to pensions, to death
benefits when there are no dependents, and to salary deductions.

[H 427]
Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §8 5, 9 and 10, as amended, and 6 of Chapter 303 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1944, approved March 29, 1944, be amended and reenacted
as follows:

5. In case of the death of any member of the police department
before retirement leaving a widow or a child or children under * eighteen
years of age, the widow shall be entitled to receive relief from the pension
fund in an amount not exceeding * one hundred dollars a month and each
child under the age of * eighteen years in an amount not exceeding * fifty
dollars a month; provided that upon the remarriage of any widow granted
relief under the provisions of this section the relief shall cease and the
relief granted to or for any child or children under the age of * eighteen
years shall cease upon reaching that age.

§ 6. Any member of the police department who has completed
twenty-five years of service in the department or as a police officer of the
county * shall be eligible to retirement and to receive the pension and
benefits herein specified. Any member, from and after the time he so re-
tires, shall receive a pension hereunder not to exceed fifty per centum of
his annual salary computed on the basis of his average salary for the last
three years of his service.

§ 9. Should any such policeman die while in active service, leaving
no dependents, his salary deductions shall remain in the policemen’s pen-
sion and retirement fund. Should any such policeman, who shall have been
separated from the service and whose employment shall have been ter-
minated otherwise than by death or retirement, he shall, on application
made within two years from the date of such separation, or if separated
prior to January one, nineteen hundred fifty-one, on application made
within four years, be refunded all of his accumulated contributions; pro-
vided, however, that if such policeman has received payments or benefits
under this system, the amount of such payments or benefits shall be de-
ducted from the amount to be refunded; provided, further, that should any
retired policeman be receiving benefits hereunder at the time of his death
then and in that event his dependents, if any, shall receive the difference
between the total contributions made hereunder by such policeman and any
payments received by him and at the same rate at which such retired police-
man was receiving benefits.

Should any such policeman elect at the time of his retirement, the re-
tirement payments herein provided for may be reduced during his life-
time and the amount by which such payments are reduced shall be paid
to his dependents at the same rate after such policeman’s death.

§ 10. For the purpose of raising funds for the payment of pensions
and benefits and the costs and expenses of administering the affairs of
the board there shall be levied monthly, and deducted from the salaries of
the policemen, * eight and one half per centum of the amounts of their
salaries and all such amounts so levied and deducted shall be paid into
the treasury of the board. The county board shall contribute to the pension
fund an amount at least equal to the amount contributed by the policemen.