(1) If any old hire member of the police department in a municipality having a population of at least one hundred thousand, while in the performance of the member's duty, becomes temporarily totally disabled, physically or mentally, for service by reason of service in such department, the board shall order the payment to such disabled member, monthly during such disability but not to exceed one year, from the old hire pension fund, a sum equal to the monthly compensation allowed such member as salary at the date of the member's disability if such member is paid no salary as such member. If any old hire member of the police department, while in the performance of the member's duty, becomes mentally or physically permanently disabled by reason of service in such department so as to render necessary the member's retirement from service in such department, the board shall retire such disabled member from service in such department. No such retirement on account of disability shall occur unless said member has contracted said disability while in the service of said police department.
(2) Upon retirement the board shall order the payment to such disabled member from the old hire pension fund a sum equal to one-half the monthly compensation allowed to such the member as salary at the date of the member's retirement. If any old hire member of the police department in a municipality having a population of at least one hundred thousand, while in the performance of the member's duty, is killed, dies as a result of an injury received in the line of duty or of any disease contracted by reason of the member's occupation, dies from any cause whatever as the result of the member's services in said department, or dies while in the service or on the retired list from any cause and leaves a surviving spouse or a dependent child under sixteen years surviving or, if unmarried, leaves a dependent parent surviving, the board shall direct the payment from the fund, monthly, to such surviving spouse, while unmarried, of thirty dollars, and for each child, while unmarried, until the child reaches the age of sixteen years, six dollars, and to the dependent parent, if such member was unmarried, thirty dollars. The pension to the dependent parent or both shall be paid as follows: If the father is dead, the mother shall receive the entire thirty dollars, and if the mother is dead, the father shall receive the entire thirty dollars, and if both are living, each shall receive fifteen dollars.
Source: L. 96: Entire article added with relocations, p. 886, § 1, effective May 23.
Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as § 31-30-608.