Sec. 2. (a) A police pension fund to be known as the 1953 fund is established in each consolidated city.

     (b) The 1953 fund shall be managed by a board of trustees (referred to as the “local board” in this chapter) having nine (9) trustees, as follows:

(1) The city executive, the county treasurer, and the city police chief.

(2) One (1) retired member of the police department.

(3) Five (5) active members of the police department.

     (c) The trustee under subsection (b)(2) shall be elected at a meeting of the retired members of the 1953 fund. The trustees under subsection (b)(3) shall be elected at a meeting of the active members of the police department. The trustees are elected for terms of three (3) years, beginning on January 1 following the election, and succeeding those trustees whose terms of office expire on that date.

     (d) If a vacancy occurs on the local board among those trustees elected by the police department, the remaining trustees of the local board shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term of the trustee causing the vacancy, from the same class of members, active or retired, as was the trustee causing the vacancy.

     (e) Any trustee of the local board elected as an active member of the police department automatically ceases to be a member of the local board if the trustee ceases, for any reason, to be an active member of the police department and the vacancy shall be filled as provided in subsection (d).

     (f) The trustees receive no compensation for their services and shall be paid only their necessary and actual expenses, including travel expenses, out of the fund in the custody of the treasurer, for acting upon matters related to the 1953 fund. The submission of expenses by any local board member and the authorization by the local board at regular meeting is sufficient authorization to the treasurer for payment.

     (g) The local board may make all necessary bylaws for:

(1) meetings of the trustees;

(2) the manner of their election, including the counting and canvassing of the votes;

(3) the collection of all money and other property due or belonging to the 1953 fund;

(4) all matters connected with the care, preservation, and disbursement of the fund; and

(5) all other matters connected with the proper execution of this chapter.

As added by Acts 1982, P.L.77, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.253.