2001 Minnesota Statutes

     424.16 Special fund; disbursement; segregation in case 
  of volunteer members. 

    The amounts so paid to relief association by the state and 
 each city under the provisions of sections 424.01 to 424.29 and 
 by it set aside and deposited as a special fund, shall be 
 appropriated and disbursed by each such association for the 
 following purposes: 

    (1) For the relief of sick, injured, and disabled members 
 of the relief associations, their surviving spouses and orphans; 
 and 

    (2) For payment of disability and service pensions to 
 members of the relief associations. 

    (3) In any second class city firefighters relief 
 association in which the membership of the firefighters' relief 
 association includes volunteer firefighters, the special fund 
 shall be segregated into two accounts, one of which shall be for 
 the benefit of members who are volunteer firefighters, and the 
 other for the benefit of members who are paid firefighters.  All 
 moneys received by the association which are derived from 
 payroll deductions from paid firefighters' salaries under 
 section 69.77, subdivision 2a, shall be paid into the account of 
 the special fund for the benefit of paid firefighters only.  
 Funds received from other sources shall be allocated between the 
 account for the benefit of paid firefighters and the account for 
 the benefit of volunteer firefighters in such proportions as 
 shall be designated by the governing body of the city from time 
 to time.  The paid firefighters account of the special fund 
 shall be governed by the applicable provisions of this chapter 
 and the volunteer firefighters account of the special fund shall 
 be governed by the applicable provisions of chapter 424A.  In 
 the event the governing body of the city shall abolish the 
 volunteer firefighters account of its fire department, any 
 surplus remaining in the account of the fund for the benefit of 
 volunteer firefighters after discharging all obligations to 
 those who are volunteer members at the time of the abolition 
 shall be paid into the account of the fund for the benefit of 
 paid firefighters.  

    (4) For the payment of administrative expenses of the 
 association as authorized pursuant to section 69.80. 

    HIST: 1941 c 267 s 16; 1955 c 289 s 2; 1957 c 179 s 1; 1977 c 
 429 s 63; 1978 c 562 s 27; 1978 c 690 s 6; 1982 c 465 s 5; 1991 
 c 199 art 2 s 1