Dennis v. Jordan

LA PRADE, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the lower court sustaining the constitutionality of the Public Employees’ Retirement Act, proposed by initiative petition and proclaimed by the Governor, Laws of Arizona 1949, pp. 325-344, to have been enacted at the general election November 2, 1948 and now designated as Sections 12-801 to 12-828, inclusive, Cum.Pocket Supp., A.C.A. 1939.

To employees on the State payroll prior to July 1, 1949 the Act represented:

1. that a Fund would be established, Sections 3, 5, 23 and 24, to which the State would contribute an annual sum sufficient…