1998 Minnesota Statutes

     424.17 Relief, determination of entitlement; volunteers 
  included. 

    Each relief association shall, in its bylaws, define the 
 sickness and disability entitling its members to relief, and 
 specify the amounts thereof, and also specify the amounts to be 
 paid to its disability and service pensioners, and to surviving 
 spouses and children of deceased members, and to fix the age 
 limit of children to which pensions may be paid.  When the total 
 assets of the association shall amount to $50,000 or more, it 
 shall have the right to pay to its members the maximum amounts 
 specified in sections 424.01 to 424.29.  The bylaws of the 
 association shall provide for payment of a service pension to 
 volunteer firefighters who are members of the association in 
 accordance with the applicable provisions of chapter 424A.  If 
 the services of all volunteer firefighters are discontinued and 
 the volunteer firefighters account of the fire department is 
 abolished by the municipality, the volunteer firefighters who 
 are members of the association at the time of the discontinuance 
 and abolishment shall be paid a service pension in an amount 
 equal to the service pension amount in effect immediately prior 
 to the discontinuance and abolishment.  In determining the 
 period of service of any individual member of the association 
 for the purpose of computation of service requirements in 
 connection with payment of any pensions or other benefits 
 specified by the bylaws of the relief association, or any 
 provision of sections 424.03 to 424.29, service of a volunteer 
 or paid firefighter of the fire department of the municipality 
 in which the relief association is situated, and membership in a 
 firefighters' relief association in the municipality prior to 
 the municipality becoming a city of the second class, shall be 
 taken into account on the same basis as if the municipality had 
 been a city of the second class during all of the time the 
 service was rendered. 

    HIST: 1941 c 267 s 17; 1955 c 289 s 3; 1957 c 179 s 2; 1977 c 
 429 s 63; 1978 c 562 s 28; 1982 c 465 s 6