Pennsylvania Act 1917-20 — POLICE PENSIONS, SECOND CLASS CITIES

Act text

POLICE PENSIONS, SECOND CLASS CITIES
                   Act of Apr. 5, 1917, P.L. 39, No. 20               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to police pension funds in cities of the second class,
        and directing such cities to appropriate certain moneys
        thereto.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be paid over
     to the organization or association constituting and having in
     charge the distribution of police pension funds, in every city
     of the second class, one and one-half per centum of all city
     taxes collected by the city, other than taxes levied to pay
     interest on or extinguish the debt of the municipality, or any
     part thereof.
        Section 2.  The organizations herein mentioned shall consist
     only of such as are, by city ordinance, designated as the
     official and authorized organization or association to hold,
     receive, and distribute the funds of moneys for the purpose of
     pensioning the police officers of said cities.
        Section 3.  It shall be the duty of the city treasurer
     collecting said taxes to pay over to the proper officials of the
     said organization or association constituting the police pension
     funds, annually, the amount designated in this act, taking his
     or their receipt for same, which said receipt shall constitute a
     voucher and quittance for the amount so paid.