NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 309

HOUSE BILL 564

 

 

AN ACT REWRITING SECTION 7 OF CHAPTER 8 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1931, RELATING TO THE APPLICATION OF THE SALISBURY AND ROWAN COUNTY PEACE OFFICERS' RELIEF FUND, AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF BENEFITS FROM SUCH FUND TO THE WIDOW OF ANY MEMBER OF THE SALISBURY AND ROWAN COUNTY PEACE OFFICERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION DYING SUBSEQUENT TO MARCH 31, 1963, AND RATIFYING BENEFITS HERETOFORE PAID FROM SUCH FUND BY SUCH ASSOCIATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section 7 of Chapter 8 of the Public-Local Laws of 1931 be and the same is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows, to wit:

"Sec. 7. Application of Fund. The money so paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the Salisbury and Rowan County Peace Officers' Protective Association shall be known as the Salisbury and Rowan County Peace Officers' Relief Fund, and shall be used as a fund for the relief of members of said association who may be injured or rendered sick by disease, and for the relief of their widows and children and, if there be no widows or children, then the dependent mother of such officer dying from any cause while a member of said association, and as a pension fund for peace officers grown old in the line of duty, and for the relief of the widow or dependent children of any such officer who dies; and also for the benefit of special officers injured while acting as such special officers; and for the further benefit of the widows and children of such special officers who may be killed while acting as such peace officers. All persons entitled to benefits under this Section shall make application to the executive board, above provided for, and said executive board shall investigate each such application and shall determine what benefits shall be paid. The decision of the executive board shall be final and conclusive as to what persons are entitled to benefits and as to the amount of benefits to be paid, and said executive board shall have power to increase or decrease benefits at any time, and no action at law or suit in equity shall be maintained against said association to enforce any claim or recover any benefit under this Act or under the constitution or bylaws of said association; but if any officer or committee of said association omit or refuse to perform any duty imposed upon him or them, nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any proceeding against said officer or committee to compel him or them to perform such duty."

Sec. 2. That the Executive Board of the Salisbury and Rowan County Peace Officers' Protective Association may pay benefits authorized in Section 7 of Chapter 8 of the Public-Local Laws of 1931, as rewritten in section 1, above, to the widow of any member of the association whose death occurred subsequent to March 31, 1963, and any and all benefits heretofore paid by such association are hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

Sec. 3. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. That this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of April, 1963.