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74-4951. Purpose of act. The purpose of this act is to provide an orderly means whereby police and firemen employed by participating employers and who have attained retirement age or who have become disabled as herein set forth may be retired from active service without prejudice and without inflicting a hardship on the employees retired and to enable such employees to accumulate reserves for themselves and their dependents to provide for old age, disability, death and termination of employment, and for the purpose of effecting economy and efficiency in the administration of governmental affairs.

History: L. 1965, ch. 447, ยง 1; June 30.

Attorney General's Opinions:

Fire and police department retirement systems; payments on retirement or discharge; transfers. 89-143.

Election to continue participation in retirement system by certain judges; constitutionality; payments from KPERS fund; procedures; overpayments. 91-76.

1994 Senate Bill 623, which removes exemption from state income tax on KPERS benefits, is unconstitutional; impairment of contract. 94-59.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Mentioned in dissenting opinion discussing the constitutionality of setoff provisions of workmen's compensation act. Baker v. List and Clark Construction Co., 222 Kan. 127, 137, 563 P.2d 431.

2. System cited; increasing employee contributions without benefit increase impairs vested contract rights in pension plan. Singer v. City of Topeka, 227 Kan. 356, 358, 607 P.2d 467.

3. System cited; deleting provisions interlocking social security and KP&F systems increased employee contributions retroactively; vested rights impaired. Brazelton v. Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, 227 Kan. 443, 444, 607 P.2d 510.

4. Whether city's determination of plaintiff fireman's salary for computing retirement benefits was erroneous; salary defined. Galindo v. City of Coffeyville, 256 Kan. 455, 457, 885 P.2d 1246 (1994).

5. Whether KPERS is an arm of the state for purposes of sovereign immunity examined. American Intern. Sp. Lines Ins. v. Reimer and Assoc., 874 F. Supp. 324, 326 (1994).


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