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90_SB0194enr
40 ILCS 5/1-113 from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 1-113
Amends the General Provisions Article of the Pension
Code. In the Section on investment authority, makes a
technical change. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Pension Code by changing
2 Section 22-307.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
6 changing Section 22-307 as follows:
7 (40 ILCS 5/22-307) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-307)
8 Sec. 22-307. Common law or statutory rights barred.
9 Whenever any city or village enacts an ordinance pursuant to
10 this Division, no common law or statutory right to recover
11 damages against such city or village for injury or death
12 sustained by any policeman or fireman while engaged in the
13 line of his duty as such policeman or fireman, other than the
14 payment of the allowances of money and of the medical care
15 and hospital treatment provided in such ordinance, shall be
16 available to any policeman or fireman who is covered by the
17 provisions of such ordinance, or to anyone wholly or
18 partially dependent upon such policeman or fireman, or to the
19 legal representative of the estate of such policeman or
20 fireman, or to anyone who would otherwise be entitled to
21 recover damages for such injury or death. Nothing in this
22 Division 3 relieves any municipality with a population under
23 500,000 of its duties under the Workers' Compensation Act or
24 the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act. Nothing in this
25 Division 3 prevents any policeman or fireman in a
26 municipality with a population under 500,000 from recovery
27 under the Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers'
28 Occupational Diseases Act.
29 If any action against such city or village to enforce a
30 common law or statutory right to recover damages for
31 negligently causing the injury or death of any policeman or
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1 fireman, is pending, for trial or on appeal, at the time this
2 Division shall come in force or is so pending at the time
3 such ordinance is enacted, the amount of any award or
4 allowance of money made pursuant to such ordinance shall not
5 be paid while such action is so pending and shall be reduced,
6 before payment, by the amount of any judgment obtained
7 against such city or village in such pending action; or such
8 allowance of money, if already paid, together with all moneys
9 expended pursuant to such ordinance for medical care and
10 hospital expenses, may be set off against such judgment,
11 either in such pending action or through other appropriate
12 action by such city or village.
13 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
14 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15 becoming law.