2003 Minnesota Statutes

     353D.01 Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan. 

    Subdivision 1.    Establishment.  The public employees 
 defined contribution plan is administered by the Public 
 Employees Retirement Association under supervision of the 
 association board of trustees.  To assist it in governing the 
 operations of the plan, the board may appoint an advisory 
 committee of not more than nine members who are representative 
 of the employers and employees who participate in the plan.  

    Subd. 2.    Eligibility.  (a) Eligibility to participate 
 in the defined contribution plan is available to: 

    (1) elected local government officials of a governmental 
 subdivision who elect to participate in the plan under section 
 353D.02, subdivision 1, and who, for the elected service 
 rendered to a governmental subdivision, are not members of the 
 Public Employees Retirement Association within the meaning of 
 section 353.01, subdivision 7; 

    (2) physicians who, if they did not elect to participate in 
 the plan under section 353D.02, subdivision 2, would meet the 
 definition of member under section 353.01, subdivision 7; 

    (3) basic and advanced life support emergency medical 
 service personnel employed by or providing services for any 
 public ambulance service or privately operated ambulance service 
 that receives an operating subsidy from a governmental entity 
 that elects to participate under section 353D.02, subdivision 3; 

    (4) members of a municipal rescue squad associated with 
 Litchfield in Meeker County, or of a county rescue squad 
 associated with Kandiyohi County, if an independent nonprofit 
 rescue squad corporation, incorporated under chapter 317A, 
 performing emergency management services, and if not affiliated 
 with a fire department or ambulance service and if its members 
 are not eligible for membership in that fire department's or 
 ambulance service's relief association or comparable pension 
 plan; and 

    (5) employees of the Port Authority of the city of St. Paul 
 who elect to participate in the plan under section 353D.02, 
 subdivision 5, and who are not members of the Public Employees 
 Retirement Association under section 353.01, subdivision 7. 

    (b) For purposes of this chapter, an elected local 
 government official includes a person appointed to fill a 
 vacancy in an elective office.  Service as an elected local 
 government official only includes service for the governmental 
 subdivision for which the official was elected by the 
 public-at-large.  Service as an elected local government 
 official ceases and eligibility to participate terminates when 
 the person ceases to be an elected official.  An elected local 
 government official does not include an elected county sheriff.  

    (c) Individuals otherwise eligible to participate in the 
 plan under this subdivision who are currently covered by a 
 public or private pension plan because of their employment or 
 provision of services are not eligible to participate in the 
 public employees defined contribution plan.  

    (d) A former participant is a person who has terminated 
 eligible employment or service and has not withdrawn the value 
 of the person's individual account. 

    HIST: 1987 c 372 art 5 s 1; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 2; 1991 c 291 
 art 19 s 2,11; 1991 c 341 s 35; 1992 c 432 art 2 s 36; 1996 c 
 438 art 6 s 1; 1999 c 222 art 21 s 1; 1Sp2003 c 12 art 4 s 4