§ 6-173. Employees dying with not less than 10 years' service; benefits payable.
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Where any employee participating in the provisions of this act shall die while in
active service and after having had not less than five (5) years of active service
prior to his death, his beneficiary as defined in this act, shall be entitled to receive
a pension representing three-fourths (¾) of the amount that said member would have
been entitled to receive in the future had such member not died but had become as
of the date of his death totally and permanently disabled within the provisions of
this act. In other words, the amount paid to such beneficiary shall represent three-fourths
(¾) of the amounts that such member would have received had such member not died but
on the other hand had become, as of the date of death, totally and permanently disabled
within the provisions of this act, and as provided in section 9 below. Fractional parts of years shall be counted in determining the amount of the
pension to be paid to the beneficiary of an employee who shall die while in the active
service of the city and after having had not less than five (5) years of active service
prior to his death.
