Kramarski v. Board of Trustees of Orland Park Police Pension Fund

I must respectfully dissent.

First, we must both enforce the Illinois Pension Code (Code) as written and liberally construe the Code in favor of those to be benefit-ted. Hahn v. Police Pension Fund, 138 Ill. App. 3d 206, 211 (1985). To properly enforce the Code, we must give the Code its plain and ordinary meaning. People v. Pack, 224 Ill. 2d 144, 147 (2007). Section 3 — 114.2 of the Code states a police officer is entitled to a not-on-duty disability pension if he or she “becomes disabled as a result of any cause other than the performance of an act or duty, and who is found to be physically…