The provisions of this part 7 governing the benefits payable in the event of the death or disability of an active old hire member shall apply with respect to any such member who dies or becomes disabled prior to January 1, 1980. The provisions of this part 7 governing the benefits payable in the event of the death of a retired old hire member shall apply regardless of the date of death.
Source: L. 96: Entire article added with relocations, p. 882, § 1, effective May 23.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provision similar to this section.
Policemen must have been in good standing at the time of death or injury. The language of this section grants and limits pension benefits and fixes the point of time at which the individual or class is determined a beneficiary, and it is quite clear that it is intended to cover "policemen who have been members in good standing of the police departments", and the real, significant point of time is, "the time of death or injury". Bd. of Trustees of Policemen's Pension Fund v. Starasinich, 128 Colo. 556, 264 P.2d 1033 (1954).
And rights to benefit from the fund attach the moment a policeman's disabilities occur while he is a member in good standing. Bd. of Trustees of Policemen's Pension Fund v. Starasinich, 128 Colo. 556, 264 P.2d 1033 (1954).
Thus, a policemen's discharge from the police department for alleged misconduct does not, in any manner, invalidate his claim for a disability pension. Bd. of Trustees of Policemen's Pension Fund v. Starasinich, 128 Colo. 556, 264 P.2d 1033 (1954).