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PENSIONS
(40 ILCS 5/) Illinois Pension Code.

40 ILCS 5/18-149

    (40 ILCS 5/18-149) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-149)
    Sec. 18-149. To submit individual statements. To submit an individual statement to a participating judge upon his or her request, showing the accumulations to his or her credit as of the latest practicable date.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-150

    (40 ILCS 5/18-150) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-150)
    Sec. 18-150. To make rules. To establish rules and regulations consistent with this Article and deemed necessary for the administration of the system, and to generally carry on any other reasonable activities to accomplish the intent of this Article.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-151

    (40 ILCS 5/18-151) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-151)
    Sec. 18-151. Duties of secretary. The secretary shall be in charge of the administration of the detailed affairs of the system and, in addition to such other powers and duties delegated by the board, shall:
    (1) collect and record the receipt of all payments to the system, including participants' contributions, State contributions, interest and principal collections on investments as the same become due and payable, and other income accruing to the system, and immediately deposit them with the State Treasurer for its account;
    (2) sign vouchers requesting the State Comptroller to draw warrants upon the State Treasurer in accordance with resolutions of the Board authorizing payments of benefits, refunds and expenses from the funds of the system.
    (3) certify to each employer the names of the persons from whose salary deductions are to be made and the amounts or rates of such deductions.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-152

    (40 ILCS 5/18-152) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-152)
    Sec. 18-152. Duties of actuary. The actuary shall be the technical advisor of the Board and, in addition to supplying general information on technical matters, shall:
        (1) make a general investigation at least once every
    
3 years of the mortality, retirement, disability, separation, interest and employee earnings rates and recommend, as a result thereof, the tables to be adopted for all required actuarial calculations; and
        (2) make an annual valuation of the liabilities and
    
reserves of the system, an annual determination of the amount of the required State contributions and certify the results thereof to the board.
(Source: P.A. 99-232, eff. 8-3-15.)

40 ILCS 5/18-153

    (40 ILCS 5/18-153) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-153)
    Sec. 18-153. Duties of Treasurer. The Treasurer of the State of Illinois shall be ex-officio the Treasurer of the System and shall:
    (1) act as official custodian of the cash and securities of the system, provide adequate safe deposit facilities for the preservation of such securities, and hold such cash and securities subject to the order of the board;
    (2) receive from the secretary all items of cash belonging to the system, as the same are transmitted by the secretary, including participants' contributions, State contributions, interest and principal on investments and other income accruing to the system, deposit all such amounts in a special trust fund for the account of this system, and notify the board of all such transactions at least once each month;
    (3) make payments for purposes specified in this Article upon warrants or direct deposit transmittals of the State Comptroller issued in accordance with vouchers signed by the secretary pursuant to resolutions of the board;
    (4) furnish a corporate surety bond acceptable to the board of such amount as the board designates. The bond shall indemnify the board against any loss which may result from any action or failure to act on the part of the Treasurer or any of his or her agents. All reasonable charges incidental to the procuring of the bond shall be paid by the board.
    Any cash accruing to the special trust fund representing the system not required for current expenditures shall be transferred to the Illinois State Board of Investment for purposes of investment. Until such transfer is made, those funds shall be invested temporarily by the Treasurer on behalf of the system and interest earned thereon shall be credited to the trust fund of the system.
(Source: P.A. 86-273.)

40 ILCS 5/18-154

    (40 ILCS 5/18-154) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-154)
    Sec. 18-154. Duties of State Comptroller. The State Comptroller in drawing warrants for salary on payroll vouchers certified by an employer shall draw such warrants for the salary specified, less the employee contribution to be deducted therefrom as certified in the payroll vouchers, and shall draw a warrant to this system for the total of the employee contributions so withheld. The warrant drawn to the system, together with the additional copy of the payroll supplied by the employer, shall be transmitted immediately to the secretary of the board.
    The Comptroller shall draw warrants or prepare direct deposit transmittals upon the State Treasurer payable from the funds of this system for purposes provided in this Article upon the presentation of vouchers approved by the secretary in accordance with the resolutions of the board, and in the exercise of the investment authority, upon presentation of vouchers approved by the director of the Illinois State Board of Investment in accordance with the order and direction of said board.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-155

    (40 ILCS 5/18-155) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-155)
    Sec. 18-155. Duties of employers. Each employer, in preparing payroll vouchers shall indicate, in addition to other things: (1) the amount of contributions specified to be deducted from the salary or wages of each participant included in the voucher; (2) the net amount payable to each participant after the deduction of such contribution; and (3) the total of all participant contributions so deducted. An additional certified copy of each payroll voucher certified by the State shall be prepared and forwarded together with the original payroll voucher to the State Comptroller for transmittal to the board.
    Each employer other than the State, in drawing warrants for items of salary payable to participants, shall draw such warrants for the salary specified less the participant contribution to be deducted therefrom as certified in the payroll vouchers and shall draw a warrant to this system for the total of the participant contributions so withheld. The warrant drawn to the system, together with the additional copy of the payroll supplied by the employer, shall be transmitted immediately to the secretary of the board.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-156

    (40 ILCS 5/18-156) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-156)
    Sec. 18-156. Effect of participation. Each participating judge, by virtue of the payment of the employee contributions required to be paid to this system, has a vested interest in the refunds provided under this Article and, in consideration of that interest, authorizes the deductions from salary of all contributions payable to this system under this Article. Payment of salary as prescribed by law or as contracted by an employer, less the amounts of contributions provided in this Article, shall, together with such special vested rights in the refunds, be a full and complete discharge of all claims of payments for service rendered by a judge during the period covered by any such payment.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-157

    (40 ILCS 5/18-157) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-157)
    Sec. 18-157. Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act. The "Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act", being Article 20 of this Code, is adopted and made a part of this Article; provided that Section 20-131 shall not apply to this system.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-158

    (40 ILCS 5/18-158) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-158)
    Sec. 18-158. No compensation.
    Trustees shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for any reasonable traveling expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

40 ILCS 5/18-159

    (40 ILCS 5/18-159) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-159)
    Sec. 18-159. No gain or profit on investments. No trustee or employee of the board shall have any direct interest in the income, gains or profits of any investments made in behalf of the system nor receive any pay or emolument for services in connection with any investment. No such trustee or employee shall become an endorser or surety, or in any manner an obligor for money loaned or borrowed from the system. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Section is guilty of a petty offense.
(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)

40 ILCS 5/18-160

    (40 ILCS 5/18-160) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-160)
    Sec. 18-160. Undivided interests.
    The assets of the system shall be invested as one fund, and no person, group of persons, or entity shall have any right in any specific security or property, or in any item of cash, other than an undivided interest in the whole.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

40 ILCS 5/18-161

    (40 ILCS 5/18-161) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-161)
    Sec. 18-161. Annuities, etc. - exempt. Except as provided in this Article, all moneys in the fund created by this Article, and all securities and other property of the System, and all annuities and other benefits payable under this Article, and all accumulated contributions and other credits of participants in this System, and the right of any person to receive an annuity or other benefit under this Article, or a refund or return of contributions, shall not be subject to judgment, execution, garnishment, attachment, or other seizure by process, in bankruptcy or otherwise, nor to sale, pledge, mortgage or other alienation, and shall not be assignable. A person receiving an annuity or benefit, or refund or return of contributions, may authorize withholding from such annuity, benefit, refund or return of contributions in accordance with the provisions of the "State Salary and Annuity Withholding Act", approved August 21, 1961, as now or hereafter amended.
    The General Assembly finds and declares that the amendment to this Section made by this amendatory Act of 1989 is a clarification of existing law, and an indication of its previous intent in enacting and amending this Section. Notwithstanding Section 1-103.1, application of this amendment shall not be limited to persons in service on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989.
(Source: P.A. 86-273.)

40 ILCS 5/18-162

    (40 ILCS 5/18-162) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-162)
    Sec. 18-162. Fraud.
    Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record of this system, in any attempt to defraud the system, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 77-2830.)

40 ILCS 5/18-162.1

    (40 ILCS 5/18-162.1)
    Sec. 18-162.1. Mistake in benefit. If the System mistakenly sets any benefit at an incorrect amount, it shall recalculate the benefit as soon as may be practicable after the mistake is discovered.
    If the benefit was mistakenly set too low, the System shall make a lump sum payment to the recipient of an amount equal to the difference between the benefits that should have been paid and those actually paid.
    If the benefit was mistakenly set too high, the System may recover the amount overpaid from the recipient thereof, either directly or by deducting such amount from the remaining benefits payable to the recipient. However, if (1) the amount of the benefit was mistakenly set too high, and (2) the error was undiscovered for 3 years or longer, and (3) the error was not the result of incorrect information supplied by the affected member or beneficiary, then upon discovery of the mistake the benefit shall be adjusted to the correct level, but the recipient of the benefit need not repay to the System the excess amounts received in error.
    This Section applies to all mistakes in benefit calculations that occur before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 98-1117, eff. 8-26-14.)

40 ILCS 5/18-163

    (40 ILCS 5/18-163) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-163)
    Sec. 18-163. Felony conviction. None of the benefits herein provided shall be paid to any person who is convicted of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as a judge.
    None of the benefits provided for in this Article shall be paid to any person who otherwise would receive a survivor benefit who is convicted of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with the service of the judge from whom the benefit results.
    This Section shall not operate to impair any contract or vested right acquired before July 9, 1955 under any law or laws continued in this Article, nor to preclude the right to a refund, and for the changes under this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, shall not impair any contract or vested right acquired by a survivor prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly.
    All participants entering service subsequent to July 9, 1955 are deemed to have consented to the provisions of this Section as a condition of participation, and all participants entering service subsequent to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly shall be deemed to have consented to the provisions of this amendatory Act as a condition of participation.
(Source: P.A. 100-334, eff. 8-25-17.)

40 ILCS 5/18-164

    (40 ILCS 5/18-164) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-164)
    Sec. 18-164. Administrative review. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the board provided for under this Article. The term "administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

40 ILCS 5/18-165

    (40 ILCS 5/18-165) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-165)
    Sec. 18-165. General provisions and savings clause.
    The provisions of Article 1 and Article 23 of this Code apply to this Article as though such provisions were fully set forth in this Article as a part thereof.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

40 ILCS 5/18-168

    (40 ILCS 5/18-168) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 18-168)
    Sec. 18-168. Savings clause. The repeal or amendment of any Section or provision of this Article by Public Act 83-1440 shall not affect or impair any pensions, benefits, rights or credits accrued or in effect prior thereto.
(Source: P.A. 87-1265.)

40 ILCS 5/18-169

    (40 ILCS 5/18-169)
    Sec. 18-169. Application and expiration of new benefit increases.
    (a) As used in this Section, "new benefit increase" means an increase in the amount of any benefit provided under this Article, or an expansion of the conditions of eligibility for any benefit under this Article, that results from an amendment to this Code that takes effect after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code or any subsequent amendment to this Code, every new benefit increase is subject to this Section and shall be deemed to be granted only in conformance with and contingent upon compliance with the provisions of this Section.
    (c) The Public Act enacting a new benefit increase must identify and provide for payment to the System of additional funding at least sufficient to fund the resulting annual increase in cost to the System as it accrues.
    Every new benefit increase is contingent upon the General Assembly providing the additional funding required under this subsection. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability shall analyze whether adequate additional funding has been provided for the new benefit increase and shall report its analysis to the Public Pension Division of the Department of Insurance. A new benefit increase created by a Public Act that does not include the additional funding required under this subsection is null and void. If the Public Pension Division determines that the additional funding provided for a new benefit increase under this subsection is or has become inadequate, it may so certify to the Governor and the State Comptroller and, in the absence of corrective action by the General Assembly, the new benefit increase shall expire at the end of the fiscal year in which the certification is made.
    (d) Every new benefit increase shall expire 5 years after its effective date or on such earlier date as may be specified in the language enacting the new benefit increase or provided under subsection (c). This does not prevent the General Assembly from extending or re-creating a new benefit increase by law.
    (e) Except as otherwise provided in the language creating the new benefit increase, a new benefit increase that expires under this Section continues to apply to persons who applied and qualified for the affected benefit while the new benefit increase was in effect and to the affected beneficiaries and alternate payees of such persons, but does not apply to any other person, including without limitation a person who continues in service after the expiration date and did not apply and qualify for the affected benefit while the new benefit increase was in effect.
(Source: P.A. 103-426, eff. 8-4-23.)

40 ILCS 5/18-170

    (40 ILCS 5/18-170)
    Sec. 18-170. Termination of plan. Upon plan termination, a participant's interest in the pension fund will be nonforfeitable.
(Source: P.A. 98-1117, eff. 8-26-14.)