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I 4093. PENSIONS FOR FIREMEN. Tit. XIII, Ch. 36.
4 parts or parcels thereof can not, in the judgment of the county auditor,
5 be made sufficiently certain and accurate for the purposes of assess-
6 ment and taxation without noting the metes and bounds of the same,
7 he shall cause to be made and recorded in his office and the office of
8 the county recorder a plat of such tract or lot with its several sub-
9 divisions, including and replatting in such plat such other plats or parts
10 thereof included within the same lot or congressional subdivision of
11 land as may seem to him to be required in accordance with the pro-,
12 visions of this chapter, proceeding as directed in section forty hun-
13 dred seventy-nine of the compiled code, and all of its provisions shall
14 govern.
15 The owners of said land shall have the same right of appeal to
16 the board of supervisors as is provided in section forty hundred
17 eighty-one of the compiled code in the case of warranty deeds, and
18 under the same conditions as to notice and hearing, provided, however,
19 that parties aggrieved shall have sixty days within which to appeal.
[C.„'73, § 569; C, '97, § 923; S., '13, § 923; 39 G. A., ch. 13,
§1.]
CHAPTER 36.
PENSIONS FOR DISABLED AND RETIRED FIREMEN.
SECTION 4093. Who entitled to pensions—conditions of retirement—amount
paid—disability—exemption.
1 Any member of an organized paid fire department within the pro-
2 visions of this chapter who shall have served twenty-two years or
3 more in such department and shall have reached the age of fifty years,
4 or who shall, while a member of such department, become mentally
5 or physically permanently disabled from performing the duties of a
6 fireman, shall be entitled to be retired, and upon retirement he shall
7 be paid out of the firemen's pension fund of the city in which such
8 department is located, a monthly pension equal to one-half the amount
9 of salary received by him monthly at the date he actually retires from
10 said fire department. Provided, however, that no member who has
11 not served five years or more in such department shall be entitled to
12 be retired and paid a pension under the provisions of this chapter on
13 account of being mentally or physically permanently disabled, unless
14 such disability was contracted while engaged in the performance of
15 his duties or by reason of following the occupation of such fireman.
16 Provided, further, that the chief officer of any fire department shall
17 have the power to assign any member of the department, retired or
18 drawing pensions under this chapter, to the performance of light
19 duties in such fire department. The question of disability shall be
20 determined by the trustees upon the advice of a physician appointed
21 by the board of trustees for that purpose. Upon the death of any
22 member of such fire department while in the service, or of any mem-
23 ber who shall have been retired, leaving a widow or minor children
24 or dependent father or mother surviving him, there shall be paid out
25 of said fund as follows : To the surviving widow, so long as she re-
26 mains unmarried and of good moral character, a pension of thirty
27 dollars per month. If there be no surviving widow, or upon the death
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