Sec. 5. The board shall maintain an office at Topeka. It shall em-
ploy a full-time executive secretary who shall not be a member of the
board. He shall be secretary of the board and the custodian of its
records. He shall enforce the rules, decisions and orders of the board.
The board is also authorized to employ other help as may be necessary
to carry out the provisions of this act, including actuarial assistance,
and medical assistance for the examination of claimants for disability
allowances. The board shall fix the compensation for all such employees
and assistants and reimburse them for expenses incurred in pursuance of
their duties. The attorney general shall be the legal advisor of the
board, and represent it in all cases at law.

Sec. 6. The board shall control and manage all funds provided for
in this act. It shall have the status and powers of a public corporation,
and may sue and be sued under its corporate name. Any legal service
upon the executive secretary in the name of the board, shall be con-
sidered binding upon the board. The board shall keep adequate records
and make annual reports to the governor. Copies of the annual reports
shall be furnished to county superintendents in all counties and to super-
intendents of schools in all cities of the first and second classes. The
board is authorized and directed to require from public officials of the
State of Kansas, and from school employees, such information and re-
ports as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. It is
authorized to direct the manner in which the money deducted from pay
warrants shall be transmitted to its offices. It is authorized and directed
to make rulings, decisions, and definitions and orders, which are needed
to clarify and to make effective the provisions of this act. From its
decisions there shall be no appeal except by action at law.

Sec. 7. Officials of the state and its subdivisions are hereby author-
ized and directed to furnish information and to make salary and wage
deductions, and employees of the state and its subdivisions are hereby
directed to furnish information as required by this act and by the board
in conformity with this act.

Sec. 8. The board shall meet on the first Monday in June each
year, and on such other dates as it shall find necessary. It shall meet
to organize before June 1, 1941, at the call of the governor. Each mem-
ber shall have one vote. Four members shall constitute a quorum; and
four votes shall be necessary to make a decision; but a smaller number
-may adjourn and fix the date for another meeting. All payments of
money from the retirement fund shall be made by warrant according to
the usual routine for state business; but such warrants shall be issued
only on requisition authorized by the board and signed by the chairman
of the board or by the acting chairman, and also by the executive secre-
tary or acting secretary. The board shall require adequate bond on the
executive secretary which shall not be less than ten thousand dollars,
and on other employees as it finds necessary, and shall order the pre-
miums thereon to be paid from the retirement fund.

Sec. 9. The provisions of this act shall apply to all school employees
who shall perform school service after September 1, 1941, and to all
school employees who have a record of twenty years or more of school
service performed before September 1, 1941: Provided, That when

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