Division 4. Nature Of Pension Funds - Contributions and Payments  

    (40 ILCS 5/22-401) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-401)
    Sec. 22-401. Pension fund - body politic and corporate. Any annuity and benefit fund, annuity and retirement fund or retirement system, heretofore or hereafter created by the legislature of the State of Illinois for the benefit of employees of the State or of any county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate, located in the State of Illinois and functioning pursuant to legislative enactment, to which the State or any such county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate is required to contribute by way of tax levies, appropriations from the corporate fund, or otherwise, and by whatever name such annuity and benefit fund, annuity and retirement fund or retirement system may be called, is hereby declared to be a pension fund and to be a body politic and corporate under the title specified in the law creating such fund, limited to the performance of the duties set out in the law creating such fund. The trustees of each fund are hereby declared to be the officials of such body politic and corporate, vested with the powers and duties set out in said law.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

    (40 ILCS 5/22-402) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-402)
    Sec. 22-402. Purpose of fund. Each such pension fund is hereby declared to be created in the public interest and for the general welfare of the State, and pursuant to the governmental powers of the State, separate and apart from the corporate purposes of the State, and of any county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate in the State, and in which such pension fund is empowered to operate by virtue of the terms and provisions of the law creating such pension fund.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

    (40 ILCS 5/22-403) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-403)
    Sec. 22-403. Tax levy - nature of obligation. Any tax heretofore or hereafter levied for the benefit or purposes of any such pension fund by the tax-levying body authorized by the law creating such fund to levy such tax, and any payment or contribution to such fund made by the State, or by any county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate located in the State, is hereby declared to be so levied or so contributed for governmental purposes under such law, and not for the corporate purposes of such tax-levying body, or of the State, or of any county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate of the State, irrespective of the nature or character of the duties performed or services rendered by any employee member of any such pension fund. This section shall not apply to any tax levies heretofore adjudicated by the Supreme Court of this State. Any pension payable under any law hereinbefore referred to shall not be construed to be a legal obligation or debt of the State, or of any county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate located in the State, other than the pension fund concerned, but shall be held to be solely an obligation of such pension fund, unless otherwise specifically provided in the law creating such fund.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

    (40 ILCS 5/22-404) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-404)
    Sec. 22-404. Obligation for expenditures. Expenditures made and expenses incurred in connection with the administration of any pension fund shall not be construed to be a debt imposed upon the State or upon any county, city, town, municipal corporation or body politic and corporate of the State, to be paid out of taxes levied for corporate purposes. Such expenditures and expenses shall be held to be the obligation of such pension fund exclusively, as a body politic and corporate, unless otherwise specifically provided in the law creating such pension fund.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)

    (40 ILCS 5/22-405) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 22-405)
    Sec. 22-405. Employees of two or more municipal corporations. Employees of two or more municipal corporations having the same territorial limits and the same taxpayers, or of two or more bodies politic and corporate having the same territorial limits, may be included in and become members of any pension fund operating in any one of such municipal corporations, or of such bodies politic and corporate, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of such pension fund, whenever the terms and provisions of the law creating such pension fund shall so provide.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)