Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 112-S.F.No. 485 
           An act relating to the city of Faribault; providing 
          for the civil service status of certain officers; 
          providing postretirement adjustments payable from the 
          Faribault fire consolidation account. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [FARIBAULT; POLICE AND FIRE.] 
    The city of Faribault may by ordinance exempt the chief of 
police and the director of fire and code services from civil 
service coverage.  
     Sec. 2.  [FARIBAULT FIRE CONSOLIDATION ACCOUNT; FULL 
POSTRETIREMENT ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [ENTITLEMENT.] (a) Notwithstanding any 
provision of Minnesota Statutes, section 353A.08, subdivision 1, 
to the contrary, the persons described in paragraphs (b) and (c) 
are entitled to the additional postretirement adjustment 
specified in subdivision 2. 
    (b) An eligible person is a person who: 
    (1) was employed as a firefighter by the city of Faribault 
in 1974; 
    (2) suffered a heart attack during January 1990; 
    (3) returned to fire department duties on a light-duty 
basis in May 1990; 
    (4) was terminated from Faribault fire department 
employment as a result of a permanent disability on November 30, 
1990; and 
    (5) received a partial postretirement adjustment in the 
disability benefit amount from the public employees police and 
fire fund in January 1992. 
    (c) An eligible person is a person who: 
    (1) was employed as a firefighter by the city of Faribault; 
    (2) terminated active service with the Faribault fire 
department before January 1, 1991, before reaching the age at 
which a service pension under the Faribault fire department 
relief association benefit plan is first payable; 
    (3) was on deferred retiree status until March 17, 1991, 
when a service pension first became payable; and 
    (4) received a partial postretirement adjustment in the 
service pension amount from the public employees police and fire 
fund in January 1992. 
    Subd. 2.  [ADDITIONAL POSTRETIREMENT ADJUSTMENT.] The 
additional postretirement adjustment payable to a person 
entitled under subdivision 1 is an amount equal to the 
difference between the percentage postretirement adjustment 
received by the person in January 1992, and the full percentage 
postretirement adjustment received by other Faribault fire 
consolidation account benefit recipients who elected coverage by 
the public employees police and fire fund benefit plan, applied 
to the December 1991 monthly benefit or pension amount of the 
person.  The additional postretirement adjustment is payable 
under the same terms as the balance of the person's disability 
benefit or service pension and is the base for any 
postretirement adjustments after January 1992.  The additional 
postretirement adjustment accrues retroactively to January 1, 
1992, and back payments of unpaid adjustment amounts to January 
1, 1992, must be paid as soon as practicable after the effective 
date of this section. 
    Sec. 3.  [LOCAL APPROVAL.] 
    Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day after the governing 
body of the city of Faribault complies with Minnesota Statutes, 
section 645.021, subdivision 3. 
    Presented to the governor May 7, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 10, 1993, 2:57 p.m.