Volume 42
Public Law 67–95
To equalize pensions of retired policemen and firemen of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved February 17, 1923
Statutory text
An Act
To equalize pensions of retired policemen and firemen of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That on and after
District of Columbia.
Persons on policemen, etc., relief fund rolls, to receive pension on basis of existing law.
Vol. 41, p. 363.
the passage of this Act all persons upon the pension rolls of the police and fire departments of the District of Columbia who were granted relief in accordance with laws enacted prior to December 5, 1919, shall receive such relief as is allowable under existing law, and all persons now or hereafter receiving relief from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund shall also be entitled to all pension benefits resulting from any increase in pay that has or may hereafter be granted by Congress: Provided, That no arrears of pension
Provisos.
No arrears.
shall be granted for any period prior to an application for an increase in pension under the provisions of this Act: Provided further,
Allowance to widows increased.
Vol. 39, p. 719, amended.
That any widow entitled to relief from the policemen and firemen s relief fund may hereafter receive not more than $60 per month.
Sec. 2.
That all Acts and parts of Acts to the extent that they
Amendment.
are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed.
Approved, February 17, 1923.