(40 ILCS 5/Art. 23 heading)
(40 ILCS 5/23-101) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 23-101)
Sec. 23-101. Purpose-Savings provisions. It is the purpose of this Code to restate, simplify and codify the respective Acts and parts of Acts repealed by Section 23-102 which immediately prior to the effective date of this Code governed the publicly supported retirement systems, annuity and benefit funds and related pension and benefit Acts. All such systems and funds shall remain separate and distinct entities. It is intended that this Code shall grant no lesser or greater rights, credits, equities, pensions or other benefits than existed under such Acts or parts of Acts so repealed and incorporated as separate Articles and Divisions of this Code, immediately prior to the effective date of this Code, except as they may be changed hereafter by specific amendment to this Code; and all such rights, credits, equities, annuities, pensions and other benefits are preserved without change, and without loss or impairment, precisely as if such Acts or parts of Acts had not been repealed.
In like manner, any rights in annuities, pensions or other benefits derived from and in force or which would have come into force under any Acts or parts of Acts repealed by Section 23-102 and not continued in any Article or Division of this Code shall be preserved without change, loss or impairment, precisely as if such Acts or parts of Acts had not been repealed.
The repeal of any Acts or parts of Acts specified in Section 23-102 shall not affect the validity of any taxes levied or extended under such Acts or parts of Acts, or of any appropriation ordinances adopted pursuant thereto, or of any warrants issued against and in anticipation of such taxes, nor shall the repeal of any Acts or parts of Acts validating and legalizing appropriation or tax levy ordinances, or both, affect the validity or operative force of such curative Acts or parts of Acts as enacted.
The repeal of any Act or parts of Acts specified in Section 23-102 shall not affect the validity of any act, decision, determination or other authority exercised by any retirement board, or other public officer or agency pursuant to the powers and duties conferred under such Acts or parts of Acts, nor shall such repeal affect the validity or course of any judicial or administrative proceeding or action undertaken and pending or completed on the effective date of this Code.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
(40 ILCS 5/23-102) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 23-102)
Sec. 23-102. Repeal. The following Acts and parts of Acts are repealed except as provided in Section 23-103:
(1) Divisions 6 through 12, inclusive, of Article 10 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as amended.
(2) "AN ACT to create a firemen's pension fund in cities, incorporated towns, villages, townships and fire protection districts having a population of not less than 5,000 nor more than 200,000 inhabitants", filed July 11, 1919, as amended.
(3) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a municipal employees', officers', and officials' annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants", approved June 29, 1921, as amended.
(4) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance, and administration of a laborers' and retirement board employees' annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants", approved June 21, 1935, as amended.
(5) "AN ACT to provide for the creation and operation of a retirement and benefit fund for the benefit of certain officers and employees, and their beneficiaries, of cities having a population of not more than two hundred thousand inhabitants, villages, incorporated towns, counties having a population of not more than five hundred thousand inhabitants, certain other local governmental districts in the State, and instrumentalities thereof, and of organizations which are created by the Statutes of the State of Illinois to perform services for the above, and to supersede certain other pension and benefit funds", filed July 29, 1939, as amended.
(6) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a county employees' and officers' annuity and benefit fund in counties having a population exceeding five hundred thousand inhabitants", approved July 2, 1925, as amended.
(7) "AN ACT for the creation, maintenance and administration of a Judges Retirement System in order to provide annuities for Judges upon their retirement and for their widows", approved July 21, 1941, as amended.
(8) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a Sanitary District Employees' and Trustees Annuity and Benefit Fund in sanitary districts organized under an Act entitled 'An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers', approved May 29, 1889, as amended, and including within their territorial limits two or more cities, villages, or towns having a total population exceeding one million inhabitants", approved July 7, 1931, as amended.
(9) Section 9a of "AN ACT to provide for the creation and management of forest preserve districts and repealing certain acts therein named", approved June 27, 1913, as amended.
(10) "AN ACT for the creation, maintenance and administration of a general Assembly members' and presiding officers' retirement system, to provide retirement annuities to the participants thereof, and widows' annuities and other benefits to their beneficiaries upon death", filed July 8, 1947, as amended.
(11) "AN ACT to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a house of correction employees pension fund in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants", approved June 10, 1911, as amended.
(12) "AN ACT to provide for the formation and disbursement of a public library employees' pension fund in cities having a population exceeding 500,000 inhabitants", approved May 12, 1905, as amended.
(13) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, formation, administration and disbursement of a park employes' and retirement board employes' annuity and benefit fund", approved June 21, 1919, as amended.
(14) Article 25 of "The School Code", approved March 18, 1961, as amended.
(15) Sections 34-88 to 34-116, inclusive, of Article 34 of "The School Code", approved March 18, 1961, as amended.
(16) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, maintenance and administration of a retirement and benefit system for certain officers and employees of the State of Illinois, their dependents and beneficiaries", approved July 23, 1943, as amended.
(17) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, maintenance, and administration of a Retirement System for the benefit of the staff members and employees of the State universities and certain affiliated organizations, certain other state educational and scientific agencies, and the survivors, dependents and other beneficiaries of such employees", approved July 21, 1941, as amended.
(18) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a Municipal Court and Law Department Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund in cities having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants in which any Municipal Court has been or shall be established and maintained in accordance with law", approved July 8, 1935, as amended.
(19) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a Park Policemen's and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund", approved June 29, 1921, as amended.
(20) "AN ACT to provide for service credits for annuity and pension purposes in cities having a population exceeding five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants", approved July 12, 1937.
(21) "AN ACT entitled An Act to establish the nature and character of annuity and benefit funds and other pension funds created by the legislature of the State of Illinois, the contributions to such funds, and payments from such funds", approved July 18, 1945.
(22) "AN ACT to establish continuity and preservation of pension credit for employees in Governmental service in the State of Illinois", approved July 11, 1955, as amended.
(23) "AN ACT to provide for reciprocal allowance of credits for retirement, death and disability benefits between the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, the University Retirement System of Illinois and the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, and for the transfer of certain funds between said systems", approved August 8, 1947, as amended.
(24) "AN ACT to provide for the coverage of certain officers and employees of the State and its political subdivisions and of the instrumentalities of either, under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, to provide for the administration of such a coverage program and to make an appropriation for its administration", approved August 6, 1951, as amended.
(25) "AN ACT in relation to the examination, investigation and supervision of pension, annuity and retirement funds or systems for the benefit of employees and officers of governmental units in the State of Illinois, to provide means to insure compliance with the laws establishing such funds, and to repeal an Act herein named", approved July 20, 1949, as amended.
(26) "AN ACT to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns", approved April 29, 1887, as amended.
(27) "AN ACT to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants", approved June 29, 1915, as amended.
(28) "AN ACT to provide for a firemen's pension fund and to create a board of trustees to administer said fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants", filed June 14, 1917, as amended.
(29) "AN ACT for the relief of disabled members of the police and fire departments in cities and villages", approved May 24, 1877, as amended.
(30) "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a firemen's annuity and benefit fund in cities, townships, villages and incorporated towns having a population of not less than ten thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants", approved July 31, 1943.
(31) "AN ACT to provide for the formation and disbursement of a municipal employees' pension fund in cities having a population exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants", approved May 16, 1905, as amended.
(32) "AN ACT to legalize and validate appropriations and tax levy ordinances and taxes for fiscal years 1957 and 1958 in counties of not less than 500,000 for County Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund", approved April 6, 1959.
(33) "AN ACT relating to a tax by certain park districts for the purpose of making contributions to municipal police pension funds", approved July 11, 1957, as amended.
(34) Sections 11 and 55 1/2 of "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a firemen's annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding five hundred thousand inhabitants", approved June 12, 1931, as amended.
(35) Sections 11, 35, and 54 1/2 of "AN ACT to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a policemen's annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants", approved June 29, 1921, as amended.
(36) "AN ACT to provide for the setting apart, formation, administration and disbursement of a park police pension fund", filed May 19, 1917, as amended.
(37) "AN ACT creating a Commission for the further study of pension and annuity and benefit laws relating to employees and officers in governmental service, to define its powers and duties, and to make appropriations therefor", approved July 17, 1959.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
(40 ILCS 5/23-103) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 23-103)
Sec. 23-103. Construction.
Nothing in this Code shall be construed to repeal any section of the various Acts of which this Code is comprised when such section is the subject of an amendment enacted by the Seventy-third General Assembly and which becomes law. Furthermore, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the corresponding section of this Code shall be construed with such amended section so as to give effect to such amendment as if it was made a part of this Code.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)