Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 393-H.F.No. 2225 
           An act relating to retirement; St. Paul police relief 
          association; authorizing retirees and surviving 
          spouses to participate in relief association board 
          elections and other governance issues; amending Laws 
          1955, chapter 151, section 1, subdivision 3, as 
          amended. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Laws 1955, chapter 151, section 1, subdivision 
3, as amended by Laws 1963, chapter 271, section 1; and Laws 
1969, chapter 668, section 1, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  [ST. PAUL, CITY OF; POLICE PENSIONS.] (a) For 
purposes of service on the relief association board, electing 
relief association board members under section 4, or acting on 
any question at a regular membership meeting or a special 
membership meeting, "member" means a member as defined in 
paragraph (b), a surviving spouse as defined in subdivision 5, a 
service pensioner defined in subdivision 7, an on duty 
disability pensioner defined in subdivision 9, or a non duty 
disability pensioner defined in subdivision 10. 
    (b) For all other purposes, "member" means any person hired 
before June 15, 1980, regularly employed and entered on the 
payroll in the police department of the city, on active duty, 
except those classified as clerical by the Civil Service Rules 
and Classification of Position of the City of Saint Paul, and 
except ambulance surgeons, and includes any person who was a 
member of the police relief association of the city under any 
previous law.  The term "member" shall also include those 
persons who were members of the police relief association of the 
city at the time of their transfer from the bureau of police and 
fire alarm telegraph of the department of public safety to the 
department of public works and carried on a public works 
department payroll after such transfer. 
     (c) Notwithstanding any provision of law, relief 
association articles of incorporation, or relief association 
bylaws to the contrary, for a question considered at a regular 
membership meeting or a special membership meeting to be 
approved, approval must be given by both a majority of members 
described in paragraph (b) and a majority of members described 
in paragraph (a) but not also described in paragraph (b). 
     Sec. 2.  [LOCAL APPROVAL; EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
     Section 1 is effective upon approval by the city council of 
the city of St. Paul and compliance with Minnesota Statutes, 
section 645.021. 
    Presented to the governor April 2, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 3, 1992, 4:02 p.m.