Compensation of Members of Police Force or Fire Department Who Die or Are Disabled in Line of Duty

June 21, 1952

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 784

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF MUNICIPAL POLICE FORCES AND FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO DIE OR ARE DISABLED IN LINE OF DUTY

SECTION 1. When any member of the police force or fire department of a municipality is:

(a) Killed in line of duty, his heirs shall be entitled to a compensation of one thousand pesos plus two hundred pesos for funeral expenses;

(b) Totally disabled in line of duty, he shall be paid his salary for a period of six months and twenty per cent of his monthly salary thereafter; acd

(c) Partially disabled in line of duty, he shall be entitled to his salary during the period of his confinement but in no case to exceed six months.

SECTION 2. The definitions contained in Act Numbered Three thousand four hundred twenty-eight, otherwise known as "The Workmen's Compensation Act", as amended as to what constitutes total or partial disability are incorporated and made a part hereof.

SECTION 3. The expenses in carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be borne in equal shares by the National Government and the municipality concerned.

SECTION 4. There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand pesos to cover the share of the National Government for the payment of the compensations provided for herein.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 21, 1952

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 48, No. 9, p. 3744 in September 1952