Illinois Compiled Statutes 40 Pensions: Article 9 - County Employees' and Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Counties Over 3,000,000 Inhabitants

• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-101
  Creation of fund. In each county of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants a County Employees' and Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund shall be created, set...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-102
  Terms defined. The terms used in this Article have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 9-120, except...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-103
  Fund. "Fund": The County Employees' and Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund herein created. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-104
  The 1925 Act. "The 1925 Act": "An Act to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a county employees' and officers'...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-105
  County pension fund. "County pension fund": Any pension fund created by "An Act to provide for the formation and disbursement of a pension fund...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-106
  Effective date. "Effective date": January 1, 1926, for any county covered by "The 1925 Act" on the date this Article comes in effect; and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-107
  Retirement board or board. "Retirement board" or "board": The Board of Trustees of the County Employees' and Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund created by...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-108
  "Employee", "contributor" or "participant". (a) Any employee of the county employed in any position in the classified civil service of the county, or in...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-108.1
  Employees of County Department of Public Aid transferred to State employment by operation of law. Employees of a County Department of Public Aid in...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-108.2
  Gender. The masculine gender whenever used in this Article includes the feminine gender and all annuities and other benefits applicable to male employees and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-109
  "Present employee". (a) Any employee on the day before the effective date who becomes a contributor on the effective date; and (b) Any person...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-110
  "Future entrant". (a) Any person not described in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), or (e) of this definition of "Future Entrant" who becomes an employee...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-111
  Re-entrant. "Re-entrant": Any employee who withdraws from service and receives a refund, and thereafter re-enters service prior to age 65. (Source: Laws 1963, p.
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-112
  Salary. "Salary": Annual salary of an employee under this Article as follows: (a) Beginning on the effective date and prior to July 1, 1947 $3000...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-113
  Disability. "Disability": A physical or mental incapacity as the result of which an employee is unable to perform the duties of his position. (Source:...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-114
  Injury. "Injury": A physical hurt resulting from external force or violence. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-115
  Child or children. "Child" or "children": The natural child or children or any child or children legally adopted by an employee. (Source: P.A. 95-279, eff.
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-116
  Withdraws from service, withdrawal from service or withdrawal. "Withdraws from service", "withdrawal from service" or "withdrawal": Discharge or resignation of an employee. (Source: Laws...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-117
  Assets. "Assets": The total value of cash, securities and other property held. Bonds shall be valued at their amortized book values. (Source: Laws 1963,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-118
  Effective rate of interest, interest at the effective rate, or interest. "Effective rate of interest", "interest at the effective rate", or "interest": Interest at...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-119
  Annuity. "Annuity": Equal monthly payments for life, unless otherwise specified. The first payment shall be due and payable 1 month after the occurrence of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-119.1
  Earned annuity. "Earned annuity": (1) The annuity a participant has accrued as provided in Section 9-134, disregarding minimum age and service eligibility requirements and without...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-120
  Persons to whom article does not apply. This Article does not apply to: (a) Any person whose position will not ordinarily permit service during...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-120.1
  CTA - continued participation; military service credit. (a) A person who (i) has at least 20 years of creditable service in the Fund, (ii)...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121
  Election of county officer to become contributor. (a) Any employee elected by a vote of the people to a county office may elect to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.1
  General Assembly transfer. (a) Any active (and until February 1, 1993, any former) member of the General Assembly Retirement System may apply for transfer...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.2
  Validation of service credits. An active member of the General Assembly having no service credits or creditable service in the Fund, may establish service...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.3
  (a) Persons otherwise required or eligible to participate in the Fund who elect to continue participation in the General Assembly System under Section 2-117.1...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.4
  Service as Village Trustee. Any participant who served as a Village Trustee, and was not then eligible to participate in the Illinois Municipal Retirement...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.5
  Elected county officer transfer of credits. Any county officer elected by vote of the people who has elected to participate in the Fund may...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.6
  Alternative annuity for county officers. (a) Any county officer elected by vote of the people may elect to establish alternative credits for an alternative annuity...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.7
  Alternative survivor's benefits for survivors of county officers. In lieu of the survivor's benefits otherwise payable under this Article, the spouse or eligible child of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.8
  Transfer of creditable service to Article 8 or 13 Fund. (a) Any city officer as defined in Section 8-243.2 of this Code, and any...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.9
  Age Discrimination. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Article, it is the intention of the General Assembly to comply with the federal Age Discrimination...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.10
  Transfer to Article 14. (a) Any active member of the State Employees' Retirement System who is a State policeman, investigator for the Office of the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.11
  Transfer of credit from Article 8 or 11. Until March 1, 1993, an employee may transfer to this Fund up to a total of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.12
  Transfer to Article 18 system. Any active member of the Judges Retirement System who is eligible to transfer service credit to that System from...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.13
  Transfer of Article 5 credits. (a) An active participant in the Fund who was employed by the office of the Cook County State's Attorney...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.15
  Transfer of credit from Article 14 system. A current or former employee shall be entitled to service credit in the Fund for any creditable...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.16
  Contractual service to the Retirement Board. A person who has rendered continuous contractual services (other than legal or actuarial services) to the Retirement Board...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.17
  Transfer from Article 3. Until 6 months after the effective date, an employee may transfer to this Fund up to 6 years of creditable service...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-121.18
  Transfer to Article 5. (a) Any active member of Article 5 of this Code may apply for transfer of some or all of his creditable...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-122
  Time of fixing annuities-Waiver. No annuity or disability benefit shall be fixed, granted, or paid under this Article before the effective date. Any employee...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-123
  Prior service annuities-When due. A "Prior Service Annuity" shall be credited to present employees in accordance with "The 1925 Act" for service rendered prior...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-124
  Age and service annuity. An "Age and Service Annuity" shall be credited employees for contributing service rendered after the effective date. (Source: Laws 1963,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-125
  Annuities - Present employees and future entrants attaining age 65 in service. (a) A present employee who attains age 65 or more in service,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-126
  Annuities-Present employees and future entrants-Withdrawal after age 60 and prior to 65. An employee who attains age 60 or more but less than age...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-127
  Annuities - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal after age 50 and prior to age 60. An employee who (i) withdraws prior to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-128
  Annuities - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal before age 50. An employee who, prior to January 1, 1988, withdraws after 10 years...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-128.1
  Annuities for members of the County Police Department. (a) In lieu of the regular or minimum annuity or annuities for any deputy sheriff who...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-128.2
  Stipends. Any elected county officer who was entitled to receive a stipend from the State on or after July 1, 2009 and on or before...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-129
  Annuities-Re-entry into service. Annuity in excess of that fixed in Sections 9-126, 9-127 or 9-128 shall not be granted to any employee described therein,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-130
  Service after time of fixing annuity. Service rendered after the time of fixing an annuity shall not be considered for age and service annuity...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-131
  Prior service annuity credits. (a) The sum to be credited for prior service annuity in the case of any present employee described in subdivision...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-132
  Minimum annuity. A present employee who was a contributor to a county pension fund in operation on the effective date who withdraws on or...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-133
  Automatic increase in annuity. (a) An employee who retired or retires from service after December 31, 1959, having attained age 60 or more or, beginning...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-133.1
  Automatic increases in annuity for certain heretofore retired participants. A retired employee retired at age 55 or over and who (a) is receiving annuity based...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-134
  Minimum annuity - Additional provisions. (a) An employee who withdraws after July 1, 1957 at age 60 or more with 20 or more years...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-134.1
  Preservation of minimum annuity rights for certain house of correction employees and their widows. In the case of employees who were contributors to and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-134.2
  Early retirement incentives. (a) To be eligible for the benefits provided in this Section, a person must: (1) be a current contributing member of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-134.3
  Early retirement incentives. (a) To be eligible for the benefits provided in this Section, a person must: (1) be a current contributing member of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-134.4
  Early retirement incentives. (a) To be eligible for the benefits provided in this Section, a person must: (1) be a current contributing member of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-134.5
  Alternative retirement cancellation payment. (a) To be eligible for the alternative retirement cancellation payment provided in this Section, a person must: (1) be a member...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-135
  Reversionary annuity. (a) An employee, prior to retirement on annuity, may elect to take a lesser amount of annuity and provide, with the actuarial...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-135.1
  Death benefit. Upon the death of an employee in service or while receiving a retirement annuity, a death benefit of $1,000 shall be payable...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-136
  Widow's prior service annuity. A "Widow's Prior Service Annuity" shall be credited for the widow of a male present employee for service prior to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-137
  Widow's annuity. A "Widow's Annuity" shall be credited for a widow of any male employee covering service after the effective date, payable from and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-138
  Widow's annuity-Present employee age 65 on effective date. The widow of a present employee who is age 65 or more on the effective date...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-139
  Widow's annuity-Present employees and future entrants attaining age 65 in service. The widow of a present employee who attains age 65 while in service...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-140
  Widow's annuity-Present employees and future entrants-Death in service before 65. The widow of an employee whose death occurs in service before age 65 shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-141
  Widow's annuity-Present employees and future entrants-Withdrawal after age 60 but before 65. The widow of an employee who attains age 60 or more but...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-142
  Widow's annuity - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal after age 50 but before 60. The widow of an employee who (1) attains...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-143
  Widow's annuity - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal before age 50. The widow of an employee who withdraws after 10 or more...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-144
  Widow's annuities - Present employees and future entrants - Withdrawal and death before age 50. The widow of an employee with 10 or more...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-145
  Widow's annuities-Re-entry of employee into service. No annuity in excess of that fixed in accordance with Sections 9-141, 9-142 and 9-143 shall be granted...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-146
  Employee's widow's annuities - No contributions or service credits after fixation. No contributions by the employee or the county for an annuity for the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-146.1
  Minimum annuities for widows. The widow of an employee who retires from service or dies while in the service subsequent to June 11, 1965,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-146.2
  Automatic annual increase in widow's annuity. (a) Every widow's annuity, other than a term annuity, shall be increased on January 1, 1998 or the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-147
  Compensation annuity and supplemental annuity. When annuity otherwise provided in this Article for the widow of an employee whose death results from injury incurred...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-148
  Widows or wives not entitled to annuity. Except as provided in Section 9-148.1, the following widows or wives of employees have no right to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-148.1
  Widow's annuity for widow married to member for at least one year. Notwithstanding Section 9-148, if a member was not married at the time...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-149
  Widow's remarriage to terminate annuity. A widow's annuity shall terminate when she remarries if the marriage takes place before the date 60 days after...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-149.1
  Annuities to survivors of female employees. All provisions of this Article relating to annuities or benefits to a widow, minor children or other survivors...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-150
  Maximum annuities. (1) The annuities to an employee and his widow are subject to the following limitations: (a) No age and service annuity or...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-150.1
  The provisions of parts (1) (b) and (c) of Section 9-150, of this Article 9, increasing the maximum widow's annuity from $300 to $400...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-151
  Mortality tables and interest rates. (a) Any single life annuity fixed or granted to any employee who was a participant on or before January...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-152
  Computation of interest. For the computation of interest upon any sum contributed by an employee into any county pension fund or into this fund,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-153
  Term annuities - How computed. In any case in which an employee's credit for an annuity for himself or his widow is insufficient -...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-154
  Child's annuity. A "Child's Annuity" shall be payable monthly after the death of an employee parent to the unmarried child until the child's attainment...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-155
  Amount of child's annuity. A child's annuity shall be $140 per month for each child, and shall be subject to the following limitations: (1)...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-156
  Duty disability benefit - Child's disability benefit. An employee who becomes disabled after the effective date while under age 65 and prior to January 1,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-157
  Ordinary disability benefit. An employee while under age 65 and prior to January 1, 1979, or while under age 70 and after January 1, 1979,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-158
  Proof of disability, duty and ordinary. Proof of duty or ordinary disability shall be furnished to the board by at least one licensed and practicing...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-159
  When disability benefit not payable. (a) If an employee receiving duty disability or ordinary disability benefit refuses to submit to examination by a physician appointed...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-160
  Annuity after withdrawal while disabled. An employee whose disability continues after he has received ordinary disability benefit for the maximum period of time prescribed...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-161
  Re-entry into service. (a) When an employee who has withdrawn from service after the effective date re-enters service before age 65, any annuity previously...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-162
  Re-entry into service - Prior employee. An employee other than a present employee described in subdivision (c) of Section 9-109 who was not in...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-163
  Restoration of rights. An employee who has withdrawn as a refund the amounts credited for annuity purposes, and who re-enters service and serves for...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-164
  Refunds - Withdrawal before age 55 or with less than 10 years of service. (1) An employee, without regard to length of service, who withdraws...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-165
  Refund of widow's annuity deductions. If a male employee is (1) unmarried when he attains age 65 or (2) is married at age 65...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-166
  Refunds - When paid to beneficiary, children or estate. Whenever the total amount accumulated to the account of a deceased employee from employee contributions for...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-167
  Refund - In lieu of annuity. In lieu of an annuity, an employee who withdraws after age 60, having annuity rights based on a...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-168
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-169
  Financing - Tax levy. (a) The county board shall levy a tax annually upon all taxable property in the county at the rate that will...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-170
  Contributions for age and service annuities for present employees, future entrants and re-entrants. (a) Beginning on the effective date as to a present employee...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-170.1
  From and after January 1, 1970 any employee who is credited with 35 or more years of contributing service may elect to discontinue the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-170.2
  The county may pick up the employee contributions required by Sections 9-133, 9-170, 9-176, 9-176.1 for salary earned after December 31, 1981. If employee...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-171
  Additional contributions for age and service annuities for present employees, future entrants and re-entrants. (a) From and after September 1, 1935, in addition to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-172
  Contributions by employee after annuity is fixed. Any contributions by an employee from and after the date when his age and service annuity is...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-173
  Additional contributions and credits-all employees. Any employee in service on July 1, 1947, may elect to make additional contributions while in service which shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-174
  Contributions by disabled employee whose ordinary disability benefit has expired. In the case of any disabled employee whose credit for ordinary disability benefit purposes...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-175
  Interest credits-all employees. Amounts allocated to the account of and credited for age and service and prior service annuity shall be improved by interest...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-176
  Contributions for widow's annuity for widows of present employees, future entrants and re-entrants. (a) Beginning on the effective date as to a present employee...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-176.1
  Contributions by female employees. (a) Effective as of October 1, 1974, each female employee shall contribute at the same rates as a male employee...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-177
  Additional contributions for widow's annuity for widows of present employees, future entrants and re-entrants. In addition to the contributions to be made by each...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-178
  Widow's annuity interest credits-all employees. Amounts allocated to the account of and credited to the employee for widow's and widow's prior service annuity shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-179
  Election as to amount to be deducted from compensation-refunds. (a) Any employee who failed to elect to make contributions beginning on September 1, 1935,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-179.1
  Military service. A contributing employee as of January 1, 1993 with at least 25 years of service credit may apply for creditable service for...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-179.2
  Other governmental service-Former County Service. Any employee who has rendered service to any "governmental unit" as such term is defined in the "Retirement Systems...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-179.3
  Optional plan of additional benefits and contributions. (a) While this plan is in effect, an employee may establish additional optional credit for additional optional benefits...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-180
  Contributions by county for duty disability benefit. In lieu of all amounts ordinarily contributed by an employee and by the county for age and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-181
  Contributions by county for ordinary disability benefit. The county shall contribute all amounts ordinarily contributed by it for annuity purposes for any employee receiving...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-182
  Contributions by county for prior service annuities and pensions under former acts. (a) The county, State or federal contributions authorized in Section 9-169 shall be...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-183
  Contribution by county for administration costs. The county shall contribute, from revenue derived from taxes herein authorized, the amount necessary to defray costs of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-184
  Estimates of sums required for certain annuities and benefits. The board shall estimate the amounts required each year to pay for all annuities and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-185
  Board created. (a) A board of 9 members shall constitute the board of trustees authorized to carry out the provisions of this Article. The...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-186
  Board elections. In each year, the board shall conduct a regular election, under rules adopted by it, at least 30 days prior to the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-187
  Board vacancy. (a) A vacancy in the membership of the board shall be filled as follows: If the vacancy is that of an appointive...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-188
  Board officers. The board shall elect annually at its regular December meeting from among its members, by a majority vote of the members voting...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-189
  Board meetings. The board shall hold regular meetings in each month and special meetings as it deems necessary. A majority of the members shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-190
  Board powers and duties. The board shall have the powers and duties stated in Sections 9-191 to 9-202.1, inclusive, in addition to such other powers...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-191
  To supervise collections. To see that all amounts specified in this Article to be applied to the fund, from any source, are collected and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-192
  To notify of deductions. To notify the comptroller of the county of the deductions to be made from the salaries of employees. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-193
  To accept gifts. To accept by gift, grant, bequest or otherwise any money or property of any kind and use the same for the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-194
  To invest the reserves. To invest the reserves of the fund in accordance with Sections 1-109, 1-109.1, 1-109.2, 1-110, 1-111, 1-114, and 1-115 of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-194.1
  To lend securities. The Board may lend securities owned by the Fund to a borrower upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-194.2
  To rent office facilities. The Retirement Board may rent or lease any office facilities that it deems desirable for the purposes of the Fund....
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-195
  To have an audit. To have an audit of the accounts of the fund made at least once each year by certified public accountants....
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-196
  To authorize payments. To authorize or suspend the payment of any annuity or benefit in accordance with this Article. The board shall have exclusive...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-197
  To determine service credits. To require each employee to file a statement concerning service rendered the county prior to the effective date. The board...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-198
  To issue certificate of prior service. To issue a certificate showing the entire period of service rendered by a present employee prior to the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-199
  To submit an annual report. To submit a report in July of each year to the county board of the county as of the close...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-200
  To subpoena witnesses. To compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon any matter concerning the fund and allow witness fees not in...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-201
  To appoint employees. To appoint such actuarial, medical, legal, clerical or other employees as are necessary and fix their compensation. (Source: Laws 1963, p.
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-202
  To make rules. To make rules and regulations necessary for the administration of the fund. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-202.1
  To reproduce records. To have any records kept by the board photographed, microfilmed, or digitally or electronically reproduced in accordance with the Local Records Act....
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-203
  Moneys to be held on deposit. To make the payments authorized by this Article, the board may keep and hold uninvested a sum not...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-204
  Accounting. An adequate system of accounts and records shall be established to give effect to the requirements of this Article and to report the financial...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-205
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-206
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1536. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-207
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1536. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-208
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1536. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-209
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-210
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-211
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-212
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-213
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-214
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 76-1574. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-215
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 81-1536. Repealed by P.A. 95-369, eff. 8-23-07.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-216
  Treasurer of fund. The county treasurer shall be ex-officio the treasurer and custodian of the fund and shall furnish to the board a bond...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-217
  Attorney. The chief legal officer of the county shall be the legal advisor of an attorney for the board. If it shall deem such...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-218
  Computation of term of service, annual salary and salary deductions. For the purpose of this Article, term of service, annual salary, and salary deductions...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-219
  Computation of service. (1) In computing the term of service of an employee prior to the effective date, the entire period beginning on the date...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-220
  Basis of service credit. (a) In computing the period of service of any employee for annuity purposes under Section 9-134, the following provisions shall govern:...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-220.1
  Service of less than 15 days in one month. A member of the General Assembly with service credit in the Fund may establish service...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-221
  (Repealed). (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161. Repealed by P.A. 98-551, eff. 8-27-13.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-222
  Basis of salary deduction. The total of salary deductions for employee contributions for annuity purposes to be considered for any 1 calendar year shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-223
  Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act. The "Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act", being Article 20 of this Code, as now enacted or hereafter amended, is hereby adopted...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-224
  Employees in territory annexed. Whenever territory is annexed to the county, any person then employed as a county employee in the annexed territory, who...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-225
  County pension fund superseded. The fund herein provided for on the effective date shall supersede and take the place of and have transferred to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-226
  Employees serving county and forest preserve district. In any forest preserve district created by "An Act to provide for the creation and management of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-227
  Employees of Cook County School of Nursing-credits. (a) Any person who was in the employ of the Cook County School of Nursing on July...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-228
  Attachment; withholding. (a) The annuities, pensions, refunds, and disability benefits granted under this Article shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment process and shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-229
  Board members-no compensation. No member of the board shall receive any moneys from the fund as salary for service performed as a member of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-230
  No commissions on investments. No member of the board, and no person officially connected with the board, as employee, legal advisor, custodian of the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-231
  Duties of county officers. The proper officers of the county and of the retirement board without cost to the fund, shall: (a) Deduct all...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-232
  Age of employee. For any employee who has filed an application for appointment to the service of the county, the age stated therein shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-233
  Office facilities. Suitable rooms for office and meetings of the board shall be assigned by the sheriff of the county. (Source: Laws 1963, p.
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-234
  Compliance with article. All officers, officials, and employees of the county shall perform any and all acts required to carry out the intent and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-235
  Felony conviction. None of the benefits provided in this Article shall be paid to any person who is convicted of any felony relating to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-236
  Administrative review. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-237
  General provisions and savings clause. The provisions of Article 1 and Article 23 of this Code apply to this Article as though such provisions...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-238
  Employees of county department of public aid who transfer to state employment-preservation of rights. Employees of a County Department of Public Aid in counties...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 9-239
  Group Health Benefit. (a) For the purposes of this Section, "annuitant" means a person receiving an age and service annuity, a prior service annuity,...

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