2004 Minnesota Statutes

     144E.46 Ambulance service personnel longevity award. 

    (a) A qualified ambulance service person who has terminated 
 active ambulance service, who has at least five years of 
 credited ambulance service, who is at least 50 years old, and 
 who is among the 400 persons with the greatest amount of 
 credited ambulance service applying for a longevity award during 
 that year, is entitled, upon application, to an ambulance 
 service personnel longevity award.  An applicant whose 
 application is not approved because of the limit on the number 
 of annual awards may apply in a subsequent year. 

    (b) If a qualified ambulance service person who meets the 
 service requirements specified in paragraph (a) dies before 
 applying for a longevity award, the estate of the decedent is 
 entitled, upon application, to the decedent's ambulance service 
 personnel longevity award, without reference to the limit on the 
 number of annual awards. 

    (c) An ambulance service personnel longevity award is the 
 total amount of the person's accumulations indicated in the 
 person's separate record under section 144E.45 as of November 1 
 in the calendar year in which application is made.  The amount 
 is payable only in a lump sum. 

    (d) Applications for an ambulance service personnel 
 longevity award must be received by the board or the board's 
 designee under section 144E.40, subdivision 2, by October 1, 
 annually.  Ambulance service personnel longevity awards are 
 payable only as of the last business day in December annually. 

    HIST: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 9 s 60; 1995 c 207 art 9 s 26; 1996 c 
 438 art 5 s 3; 1997 c 199 s 14; 2004 c 144 s 8