2006 Minnesota Statutes

353.86 VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE PERSONNEL; PARTICIPATION;
ELECTION; LIMITATION; AND COMPENSATION.
    Subdivision 1. Participation. Volunteer ambulance service personnel, as defined in section
353.01, subdivision 35, who are or become members of and participants in the public employees
retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund before July 1, 2002, and make
contributions to either of those funds based on compensation for service other than volunteer
ambulance service may elect to participate in that same fund with respect to compensation
received for volunteer ambulance service, provided that the volunteer ambulance service is not
credited to another public or private pension plan including the public employees retirement plan
established by chapter 353D and provided further that the volunteer ambulance service is rendered
for the same governmental unit for which the nonvolunteer ambulance service is rendered.
    Subd. 2. Election. Volunteer ambulance service personnel to whom subdivision 1 applies
may exercise the election authorized under subdivision 1 within the earlier of the one-year
period beginning on July 1, 1989, and extending through June 30, 1990, or the one-year period
commencing on the first day of the first month following the start of employment in a position
covered by the public employees retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund.
The election must be exercised by filing a written notice on a form prescribed by the executive
director of the association.
    Subd. 3. Limitation. Volunteer ambulance service personnel to whom subdivision 1 applies
who exercise their option in accordance with subdivision 2 and their governmental employers are
not required to pay omitted deductions and contributions under section 353.27, subdivision 12,
for volunteer ambulance service rendered before July 1, 1989.
    Subd. 4. Compensation. Notwithstanding section 353.01, subdivision 10, compensation
received for service rendered by volunteer ambulance service personnel to whom subdivision 1
applies who exercise their option in accordance with subdivision 2 shall be considered salary.
History: 1989 c 319 art 3 s 23; 1Sp2001 c 10 art 11 s 17