(215 ILCS 5/312.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 924.1)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

Sec. 312.1. Salaries. No domestic society shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than $40,000 to any person, firm or corporation, unless such payment be first authorized by the supreme governing body or the board of directors or corresponding body. No such society shall make any agreement with any of its officers, trustees or directors or salaried employees whereby it agrees that for any service rendered or to be rendered he shall receive any salary, compensation or emolument that will extend beyond a period of 4 years from the date of such agreement, provided that payment of an amount not in excess of 20% of the salary of any of its officers, directors or salaried employees may by written agreement be deferred beyond such period of 4 years, which agreement may include conditions to be met by such officers, directors or salaried employees before payment will be made, and provided further that a domestic society may enter into contracts with its producer for the payment of renewal commissions. No such society shall enter into a special contract which will compensate any officer, trustee or director based on a percentage of premiums collected by the society or on a percentage of the entire insurance business of the society. No such society shall grant any pension to any officer, trustee or director thereof or to any member of his family after his death except that it may provide a pension pursuant to the terms of a uniform retirement plan adopted by the board of directors.

(Source: P.A. 84-303.)