2006 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.
History: 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