Illinois Compiled Statutes 40 Pensions: Article 4 - Firefighters' Pension Fund - Municipalities 500,000 And Under

• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-101
  Creation of fund. In each municipality as defined in Section 4-103, the city council or the board of trustees, as the case may be, shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-102
  Terms defined. The terms used in this Article have the meanings ascribed to them in Sections 4-103 through 4-106, except when the context otherwise...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-103
  Municipality. "Municipality": (1) Any city, township, village or incorporated town of 5,000 or more but less than 500,000 inhabitants, and any fire protection district...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-104
  Firemen's pension fund act of 1919. "Firemen's pension fund act of 1919": "An Act to create a firemen's pension fund in cities, incorporated towns,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-105
  Board. "Board": The "Board of Trustees of the Firefighters' Pension Fund" of a municipality as established in Section 4-121. (Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-105a
  Deferred Pensioner. "Deferred pensioner": a firefighter who has retired having accumulated enough creditable service to qualify for a pension under this Article but who...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-105b
  Permanent Disability. "Permanent disability": any physical or mental disability that (1) can be expected to result in death, (2) has lasted for a continuous...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-105c
  Participant. "Participant": A firefighter or deferred pensioner of a pension fund, or a beneficiary of the pension fund. (Source: P.A. 90-507, eff. 8-22-97.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-105d
  Beneficiary. "Beneficiary": A person receiving benefits from a pension fund, including, but not limited to, retired pensioners, disabled pensioners, their surviving spouses, minor children,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-106
  Firefighter, firefighters. "Firefighter, firefighters": (a) In municipalities which have adopted Division 1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, any person employed in...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-106a
  Gender. The masculine gender wherever used in this Article includes the female gender unless manifestly inconsistent with the context. (Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-106.1
  Discontinuation of fire protection district; annexation to fire protection district; dissolution and reestablishment of inactive firefighters' pension funds. (a) Whenever a fire protection district which...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-107
  Qualifications. (a) A firefighter who has not contributed to the fund during the entire period of service, to be entitled to the benefits of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108
  Creditable service. (a) Creditable service is the time served as a firefighter of a municipality. In computing creditable service, furloughs and leaves of absence without...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108.1
  Transfer of creditable service to General Assembly Retirement System. (a) Any active member of the General Assembly Retirement System may apply for transfer of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108.2
  Transfer of creditable service to Article 8, 9 or 13 fund. (a) Any city officer as defined in Section 8-243.2 of this Code, any...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108.3
  (a) Until July 1, 1989, any active member of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund who is a county sheriff may apply for transfer of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108.4
  Transfer of creditable service from Article 7 fund. (a) Any firefighter who was excluded from participation in an Article 4 fund because the firefighter earned...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108.5
  Service for providing certain fire protection services. (a) A firefighter for a participating municipality who was employed as an active firefighter providing fire protection for...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-108.6
  Transfer of creditable service to the Firemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago. (a) Until January 1, 2010, any active member of the Firemen's Annuity...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-109
  Pension. (a) A firefighter age 50 or more with 20 or more years of creditable service, who is no longer in service as a firefighter,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-109.1
  Increase in pension. (a) Except as provided in subsection (e), the monthly pension of a firefighter who retires after July 1, 1971 and prior to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-109.2
  Minimum pension. (a) Beginning January 1, 1984, the minimum disability pension granted under Section 4-110 or 4-111, the minimum surviving spouse's pension, and the minimum...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-109.3
  Employee creditable service. (a) As used in this Section: "Final monthly salary" means the monthly salary attached to the rank held by the firefighter at...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-110
  Disability pension - Line of duty. If a firefighter, as the result of sickness, accident or injury incurred in or resulting from the performance of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-110.1
  Occupational disease disability pension. The General Assembly finds that service in the fire department requires firefighters in times of stress and danger to perform unusual...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-111
  Disability pension - Not in duty. A firefighter having at least 7 years of creditable service who becomes disabled as a result of any cause...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-112
  Determination of disability; restoration to active service; disability cannot constitute cause for discharge. A disability pension shall not be paid until disability has been established...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-113
  Disability pension option. (a) A firefighter who has not completed 20 years of creditable service and is receiving a disability pension under this Article...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-114
  Pension to survivors. If a firefighter who is not receiving a disability pension under Section 4-110 or 4-110.1 dies (1) as a result of any...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-114.1
  Pensions to survivors of male and female firefighters. All provisions of this Article relating to pensions to a surviving spouse, children or dependent parents...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-114.2
  Reduction of disability and survivor's benefits for corresponding benefits payable under Workers' Compensation and Workers' Occupational Diseases Acts. (a) Whenever a person is entitled...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-115
  Marriage after retirement. (a) If a firefighter marries subsequent to the date of his or her retirement with any pension under this Article, and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-115.1
  Eligibility of children. Dependent benefits shall be paid to each natural child of a deceased firefighter, and to each child legally adopted, until the child's...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-115.2
  Dependent beneficiaries; payment to trust. Any benefit to be received by or paid to a dependent beneficiary may be received by or paid to a...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-116
  Refund. A firefighter with less than 20 years of service who (1) resigns or is discharged, or has been involuntarily laid off for other...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-117
  Reentry into active service. (a) If a firefighter receiving pension payments reenters active service, pension payments shall be suspended while he or she is...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-117.1
  Deduction for group plans. If a municipality sponsors a group hospital and medical plan which includes retired firefighters and their spouses, upon written request...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-118
  Financing. (a) The city council or the board of trustees of the municipality shall annually levy a tax upon all the taxable property of the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-118.1
  Contributions by firefighters. (a) Beginning January 1, 1976 and until the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, each firefighter shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-118.2
  Pick up of contributions. A municipality may pick up the firefighters' contributions required by Section 4-118.1 for all salary earned after December 31, 1981....
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-120
  Reserves. The board shall establish and maintain a reserve to insure the payment of all obligations incurred under this Article. The reserve to be...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-121
  Board created. There is created in each municipality or fire protection district a board of trustees to be known as the "Board of Trustees of...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-122
  Powers and duties of board. The board shall have the powers and duties stated in Sections 4-123 through 4-129.1, in addition to the other...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-123
  To control and manage the Pension Fund. In accordance with the applicable provisions of Articles 1 and 1A and this Article, to control and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-123.1
  To subpoena witnesses. To compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon all matters connected with the administration of this Article, in the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-124
  To enforce contributions. To assess each firefighter the contributions required under Section 4-118.1. The contributions deducted from salaries, together with all interest accruing thereon,...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-125
  To hear and determine applications and to order payments. To hear and decide all applications for pensions and other benefits under this Article and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-126
  To make rules. To make all rules and regulations necessary for the discharge of its duties. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-127
  To pay expenses. To provide for the payment from the fund of all necessary expenses of the Board. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-128
  To invest funds. Beginning January 1, 1998, the board shall invest funds in accordance with Sections 1-113.1 through 1-113.10 of this Code. (Source: P.A....
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-129
  To keep records. To keep a record of all its meetings and proceedings. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-129.1
  To accept donations. To accept by gift, grant, transfer or bequest, any money, real estate or personal property. Such money and the proceeds from...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-130
  Treasurer of the Board. The treasurer of the municipality shall be the treasurer of the board and the custodian of the pension fund, and...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-131
  Warrants. The mayor or president of the board of trustees and clerk, secretary, or the comptroller, if there be one, and the officer or...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-132
  Disbursements. Payments from the pension fund shall be made by the treasurer of the board only upon warrants signed by the president of the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-133
  Interest on deposits. If the pension fund, or any part thereof, by order of the board or otherwise, is deposited in any bank or...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-134
  Report for tax levy. (a) The board shall report to the city council or board of trustees of the municipality on the condition of the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-135
  Benefits - Exempt. No portion of the pension fund shall, either before or after a board's order of distribution to any retired firefighter or...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-138
  Felony conviction. None of the benefits provided under this Article shall be paid to any person who is convicted of any felony relating to...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-138.5
  Fraud. Any person, member, trustee, or employee of the board who knowingly makes any false statement or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-138.10
  Mistake in benefit. (a) If the Fund commits a mistake by setting any benefit at an incorrect amount, it shall adjust the benefit to the...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-139
  Administrative review. Except as it relates to any time limitation to correct a mistake as provided in Section 4-138.10, the provisions of the Administrative Review...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-140
  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 4-141
  Referendum in municipalities less than 5,000. This Article shall become effective in any municipality of less than 5,000, population if the proposition to adopt...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-142
  Applicability of home rule powers. A home rule unit, as defined in Article VII of the 1970 Illinois Constitution or any amendment thereto, shall...
• Illinois Pension Code. - 40 ILCS 5, Section 4-144
  Savings clause. The repeal or amendment of any Section or provisions of this Article by this amendatory Act of 1984 shall not affect or...

Last modified: February 18, 2015