1929_private laws_165_7
CHAPTER 164 AN ACT TO CREATE AN EMERGENCY RESERVE FUND FOR PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CRIMINAL LAWS IN THE CITY OF GREENSBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The funds accumulated under this act shall be known as the Emergency Reserve Fund of the City of Greensboro, and shall be used as a fund for all arresting officers, as defined in section two hereof, and their families, under the following terms and conditions, that is to say: If an officer while in the actual performance of his duties shall become disabled, there shall be paid to him a sum not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and a monthly pension while so disabled not in excess of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month, and the board may pay to such disabled officer an additional sum not in excess of twenty dollars ($20.00) per month for each child or dependent under the age of eighteen years while the disability of such officer may exist and while the said officer shall live; and in case of death resulting while in the actual performance of his duties, if the officer shall be married, the board may pay immediately to the widow of such officer a sum not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and may further pay a sum not in excess of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month for said widow during widowhood, and, in addition thereto, the board may pay the said widow for the support of any dependent children she may have a sum not in excess of twenty dollars ($20.00) per month for each child until said child shall reach the age of eighteen -18 years; and in case of death resulting while in the actual performance of official duties under this act where the individual or officer as herein defined may be unmarried, the board may pay to the nearest dependent next of kin of deceased a sum not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or in lieu thereof the board may pay the funeral expenses of deceased not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00); and it is further the TRUE intent, meaning and purpose of this act that any payments enumerated in this act are limited to be not in excess of the maximum amount or amounts herein set out; and it is further the TRUE intent, meaning and purpose of this act that the board shall be empowered hereunder, in its discretion, to pay any amount less than the maximum enumerated, and said board may refuse to make a payment of any amount in any case in any or all of the classes herein enumerated.