The expenses of administration of the plan established by this document, including the compensation of the actuary and the bond for the trustees of the plan, exclusive of the payment of retirement or disability benefits, may be paid from plan assets.
Insofar as the provisions of this part are the same as statutory provisions, they shall be subject to change or repeal to comply with any future statutory provisions, and the provisions of this document may be amended or repealed if statutory authority be granted therefor of if statutory restrictions or mandates are eliminated and discretion vested in the Borough Council.
In the event that any provision, section, sentence, clause or part of this document shall be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect or impair any remaining provision, section, sentence, clause or part of this document, it being the intent of this Borough Council that such remainder shall be and shall remain in full force and effect.
The establishment of the plan shall not be construed as conferring any legal rights upon any police officer or other person to a continuation of employment nor shall it interfere with the rights of the Borough Council to discharge any police officer or to treat him or her without regard to the effect such treatment might have upon him or her as a member of the plan.
Any masculine pronoun includes the feminine and any singular reference means the plural wherever appropriate.
In connection with the administration of the plan, the practice of the Police Pension Committee, whenever there is a choice or decision to be made with respect to participants of the plan, shall be uniformly applied to all similar circumstances, with the result that there shall be no discrimination in the operation of the plan.
The plan shall be construed, regulated, and administered under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Notwithstanding any information that is made available by the Borough Council, the Police Pension Committee, or the trustees to participants of the plan through the distribution of descriptive booklets, bulletin board notices, payroll notices, or oral announcement, any participant of the plan may examine the plan and all amendments thereto at the main office of the Borough of Punxsutawney at such mutually convenient time as is arranged by the members and a representative of the Borough Council, and/or the Board of the Trustees.