No police officer of the employer nor anyone else shall have any rights whatsoever against the employer or the plan administrator as a result of this plan except those expressly granted to them hereunder. Nothing herein shall be construed to give any police officer the right to remain on the police force of the employer.
For purposes of this plan, the masculine shall be read for the feminine, and the singular shall be read for the plural, wherever the person or context shall plainly so require.
This plan may be executed and/or conformed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and shall be construed and enforced according to the laws of the commonwealth, excepting such commonwealth's choice of law rules.
The headings of articles are included solely for convenience of reference, and if there shall be any conflict between such headings and the text of the plan, the text shall control.
In case any provisions of this plan shall be held illegal or invalid for any reason, said illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of this plan, and the plan shall be construed and enforced as if said illegal and invalid provisions had never been inserted therein.
If any participant shall be physically or mentally incapable of receiving or acknowledging receipt of any payment of pension benefits hereunder, the plan administrator, upon the receipt of satisfactory evidence that such participant is so incapacitated and that another person or institution is maintaining him/her, may provide for such payment of pension benefits hereunder to such person or institution so maintaining him/her, and any such payments so made shall be deemed for every purpose to have been made to such participant.
Subject to the provisions of the Act and unless otherwise specifically required by other applicable laws, no past, present or future officer of the employer shall be a person under any provision of the plan.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to give any participant or beneficiary any interest in any specific property of the Pension Fund or any right except to receive such distributions as are expressly provided for under the plan.
The income and principal of the Pension Fund are for the sole use and benefit of the participants covered hereunder and, to the extent permitted by law, shall be free, clear and discharged from and are not to be in any way liable for debts, contracts or agreements, now contracted or which may hereafter be contracted, and from all claims and liabilities now or hereafter incurred by any participant or beneficiary.