2003 Minnesota Statutes

     3A.12 Coverage by more than one retirement system or 
  association. 

    Subdivision 1.    Entitlement to annuity.  Any 
 legislator who has been an employee covered by the Minnesota 
 State Retirement System, or a member of the Public Employees 
 Retirement Association including the public employees retirement 
 association police and fire fund, or the teachers retirement 
 association, or the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund, or 
 the State Patrol retirement fund, or any other public employee 
 retirement system in the state of Minnesota having a like 
 provision but excluding all other funds providing benefits for 
 police or firefighters, shall be entitled when qualified to an 
 annuity from each fund if the total allowable service for which 
 the legislator has credit in all funds or in any two of these 
 funds totals ten or more years, provided no portion of the 
 allowable service upon which the retirement annuity from one 
 fund is based is again used in the computation for benefits from 
 another fund.  The annuity from each fund shall be determined by 
 the appropriate provisions of the law except that the 
 requirement that a person must have at least ten years allowable 
 service in the respective system or association shall not apply 
 for the purposes of this section provided the combined service 
 in two or more of these funds equals ten or more years.  The 
 augmentation of deferred annuities provided in section 3A.02, 
 subdivision 4, shall apply to the annuities accruing hereunder. 

    Subd. 2.    Refund repayment.  Any former legislator 
 who has received a refund as provided in section 3A.03, 
 subdivision 2, who is a currently contributing member of a 
 retirement fund specified in subdivision 1, may repay the refund 
 as provided in section 3A.03, subdivision 2.  Any member of the 
 legislature who has received a refund from any of the funds 
 specified in subdivision 1, may repay the refund to the 
 respective fund under such terms and conditions consistent with 
 the law governing such fund if the law governing such fund 
 permits the repayment of refunds.  If the total amount to be 
 repaid, including principal and interest exceeds $2,000, 
 repayment may be made in three equal installments over a period 
 of 18 months, with interest accrued during the period of 
 repayment added to the final installment. 

    HIST: 1975 c 368 s 11; 1977 c 429 s 63; 1981 c 37 s 2; 1981 c 
 224 s 13; 1981 c 298 s 11; 1986 c 444