monthly, to such widow, while unmarried, of thirty dollars, and for each child until it reaches the age of fourteen years, six dollars, and to the dependent father and mother, if said deceased member was unmarried and childless, thirty dollars, the pension to the father and mother to be paid as follows: If the father be dead, the mother shall receive the entire thirty dollars, and if the mother be dead, the father shall receive the entire thirty dollars, and if both be living, each shall receive fifteen dollars.

sufficient to pay.

§ 23. If, at any time, there shall not be sufficient money when fund not in such pension fund to pay each person entitled to the benefit thereof, the amount per month as herein provided, then an equal percentage of such monthly payments shall be made to each beneficiary until the said fund shall be replenished to warrant the payment in full to each of said beneficiaries

May be relieved years' service.

§ 24. Any member of the Fire Department of such cities having served twenty years or more consecutively in after twenty such Fire Department may make application to be relieved from such Fire Department, and if his application is granted, the said Board of Trustees shall order and direct that such persons be paid a monthly pension equal to onehalf the amount of the salary said person is or was in receipt of as a member of said department at the time of granting application.

§25. Whenever an active or retired fireman shall die as aforesaid, the Board of Trustees may appropriate from the fund a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars to the widow or family for funeral expenses, and may expend a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for the expenses of the attendance of the firemen at said funeral.

§ 26. No person shall be entitled to receive any pension from the said fund except a regularly retired member or a regular member in said Fire Department, his widow and children under the age of fourteen years, and his dependent father or mother.

Funeral expenses. Custodian of pension fund.

ecute bond.

§ 27. The treasurer of the Board of Trustees shall be the custodian of said pension fund, and shall secure and safely keep the same, subject to the control and direction of the board, and shall keep his books and accounts concerning said fund in such manner as may be prescribed by the board and the said books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of the board or any member thereof. The treasurer shall, within ten days after his election or appointment, execute a bond to the city, with good and sufficient surety, in such penal sum as Treasurer to ex- the board shall direct, to be approved by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and that he will safely keep and well and truthfully account for all moneys and properties which may come into his hands as such treasurer, and that, upon the expiration of his term of office, he will surrender and deliver to his successor all bonds, securities, and all unexpended moneys or other properties which may have come into his hands as treasurer of said fund. Said bond shall be filed in the office of the comptroller as other bonds, and may be sued on in the name of said city, for the use of said board or in the name of said board, or any person or persons injured by a breach thereof.

Warrants on treasurer-how

drawn.

Moneys ordered to be paid-entered of record.

§ 28. It shall be the duty of such officer or officers of the city as are designated by law to draw warrants on the treasurer of said city, on request in writing by said Board of Trustees, to draw warrants on the treasurer of said city payable to the treasurer of said Board of Trustees for all funds belonging to said pension fund as aforesaid.

§ 29. All moneys ordered to be paid from said pension fund to any person or persons shall be paid by the treasurer of the Board of Trustees only upon warrant signed by the president of said board and countersigned by the secretary thereof, and no warrant shall be drawn except by order of the board after having been duly entered on the records of the proceedings of the board.

§ 30. The Board of Trustees shall make a report to the General Council of said city of the condition of said pension fund, on the last meeting night in August in each and every year.

Yearly report.

Pension fund not

§ 31. No portion of said pension fund shall, before or after its order for distribution by the Board of Trustees to liable for debt. the persons entitled thereto, be held, seized, taken, subjected to or detained or levied upon by virtue of any attachment, execution, injunction, writ, interlocutory or other order or decree, or any process or proceeding whatever issued out of or by any court of this State for the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, damage, claim, demand or judgment against the beneficiary of said fund; but said fund shall be held and distributed for the purposes of this act, and for no other purpose what

ever.

duty of.

§ 32. It shall be the duty of the attorney for cities of the City attorneysfirst class to give advice to the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund in all matters pertaining to their duties and management of said fund whenever thereunto requested, and he shall represent and defend said board as its attorney in all suits or actions at law or in equity that may be brought against it, and bring all suits and actions in its behalf that may be required or determined upon by said board.

§ 33. All persons who are now on the pension roll re- Pensions conceiving pensions from the Firemen's Pension Fund as now constituted shall be continued on the pension roll under this act and shall receive pensions hereafter of like amount, and under like limitations as they now respectively enjoy.

Pertaining to

CHAPTER 3.

AN ACT to amend an act providing for a Custodian of Public Buildings, for the capitol, its wings, and the Governor's Mansion, and grounds thereof, defining his duties and fixing his salary.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

That sections one, five and six of an act, providing for a Custodian of Public Buildings for the Capitol, its wings, and the Governor's mansion and grounds thereof, defining his duties, and fixing his salary, which became a law without the approval of the Governor, March twelfth, eightee hundred and ninety-eight, be and they are hereby r pealed. Said sections one, five and six are as follows:

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§ 1. That a Custodian of Public Buildings, for the capitol

Custodian of Pub-building and its wings, and the Governor's mansion shall

lic Buildings Frankfort.

Amending sec

be elected by the judges of the Court of Appeals as soon as this act shall go into effect, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

§ 5. He shall annually report to the Court of Appeals the amount total he has authorized to be spent, to whom it was chargeable, and for what expended, and every two years he shall make a similar report to the Legislature.

§ 6. He shall receive for his compensation the sum of tion 3942 "a" Ky. twelve hundred dollars per year, payable monthly, and at

Statutes.

the end of each month the Auditor shall draw his warrant in his favor for the amount due for that month. He shall give bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties, which bond shall be approved by the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals and two other Judges, and said act is hereby amended by inserting therein the following: § 1. That a Custodian of Public Buildings, for the capitol

Sinking Fund

elect.

building and its wings, and the Governor's mansion shall be elected by the Sinking Fund Commissioners on the committee to twenty-fifth day of February, nineteen hundred and two, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

§ 5. He shall annually report to the Auditor of Public Accounts the amount total he has authorized to be spent, to whom chargeable, and for what expended, and every two years he shall make a similar report to the Legislature.

Annual report.

§ 6. He shall receive for his compensation the sum of twelve hundred dollars per year, payable monthly, and at Compensation. the end of each month the Auditor shall draw his warrant in his favor for the amount due for that month.

He shall give bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties, which bond shall be approved by the Sinking Fund Commissioners.

Bond.

Emergency

As there will be a vacancy in the office of Custodian of Public Buildings, and it is necessary that said office shall clause. not remain vacant, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved February 24, 1902.