2007 Minnesota Statutes

356.635 INTERNAL REVENUE CODE COMPLIANCE.
    Subdivision 1. Retirement benefit commencement. The retirement benefit of a member
who has terminated employment must begin no later than the later of April 1 of the calendar year
following the calendar year that the member attains the federal minimum distribution age under
section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code or April 1 of the calendar year following the
calendar year in which the member terminated employment.
    Subd. 2. Distributions. Distributions shall be made as required under section 401(a)(9) of
the Internal Revenue Code and the treasury regulations adopted under that section, including,
but not limited to, the incidental death benefit provisions of section 401(a)(9)(G) of the Internal
Revenue Code.
    Subd. 3. Direct rollovers. A distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed
by the plan administrator, to have all or any portion of an eligible rollover distribution paid
directly to an eligible retirement plan as specified by the distributee.
    Subd. 4. Eligible rollover distribution. An "eligible rollover distribution" is any distribution
of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the distributee.
    Subd. 5. Ineligible amounts. An eligible rollover distribution does not include:
(1) a distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments, receivable
annually or more frequently, that is made for the life or life expectancy of the distributee, the joint
lives or joint life expectancies of the distributee and the distributee's designated beneficiary, or
for a specified period of ten years or more;
(2) a distribution that is required under section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code; or
(3) any other exception required by law or the Internal Revenue Code.
    Subd. 6. Eligible retirement plan. (a) An "eligible retirement plan" is:
(1) an individual retirement account under section 408(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;
(2) an individual retirement annuity plan under section 408(b) of the Internal Revenue Code;
(3) an annuity plan under section 403(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;
(4) a qualified trust plan under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code that accepts
the distributee's eligible rollover distribution;
(5) an annuity contract under section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code; or
(6) an eligible deferred compensation plan under section 457(b) of the Internal Revenue
Code, which is maintained by a state or local government and which agrees to separately account
for the amounts transferred into the plan.
(b) For distributions of after-tax contributions which are not includable in gross income, the
after-tax portion may be transferred only to an individual retirement account or annuity described
in section 408(a) or (b) of the Internal Revenue Code, or to a qualified defined contribution
plan described in either section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, that agrees to
separately account for the amounts transferred, including separately accounting for the portion of
the distribution which is includable in gross income and the portion of the distribution which is
not includable.
    Subd. 7. Distributee. A "distributee" is:
(1) an employee or a former employee;
(2) the surviving spouse of an employee or former employee; or
(3) the former spouse of the employee or former employee who is the alternate payee under a
qualified domestic relations order as defined in section 414(p) of the Internal Revenue Code, or
who is a recipient of a court-ordered equitable distribution of marital property, as provided in
section 518.58.
    Subd. 8. Forfeitures. For defined benefit plans, unless otherwise permitted by section
401(a)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code, forfeitures may not be applied to increase the benefits
that any employee would otherwise receive under the plan.
    Subd. 9. Military service. Contributions, benefits, and service credit with respect to qualified
military service must be provided according to section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code.
History: 2004 c 267 art 10 s 2