2006 Minnesota Statutes

69.774 NONPROFIT FIREFIGHTING CORPORATIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Authorized inclusion in fire state aid program; covered nonprofit
corporations. This section shall apply to any independent nonprofit firefighting corporation
incorporated or organized pursuant to chapter 317A which operates exclusively for firefighting
purposes, which is composed of volunteer firefighters, which has a duly established separate
subsidiary incorporated firefighters' relief association which provides retirement coverage for or
pays a service pension to a retired firefighter or a retirement benefit to a surviving dependent
of either an active or a retired firefighter, and which operates subject to the service pension
minimum requirements for entitlement to and maximums for a service pension contained in
section 424A.02, or a special law modifying those requirements or maximums. Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, a municipality contracting with an independent nonprofit firefighting
corporation shall be included in the distribution of fire state aid to the appropriate county auditor
by the state auditor only if the independent nonprofit firefighting corporation complies with the
provisions of this section.
    Subd. 2. Determination of actuarial condition and funding costs. Each independent
nonprofit firefighting corporation to which this section applies shall determine the actuarial
condition and the funding costs of the subsidiary relief association using the following procedure:
(a) An independent nonprofit firefighting corporation which has a subsidiary relief
association which pays a monthly benefit service pension shall procure an actuarial valuation of
the special fund of the subsidiary relief association at the same times and in the same manner
as specified in section 69.773, subdivisions 2 and 3, and an independent nonprofit firefighting
corporation which has a subsidiary relief association which pays a lump sum service pension
shall determine the accrued liability of the special fund of the relief association in accordance
with section 69.772, subdivision 2.
(b) The financial requirements of the special fund of the subsidiary relief association which
pays a monthly benefit service pension shall be determined in the same manner as specified in
section 69.773, subdivision 4, and the financial requirements of the special fund of the subsidiary
relief association shall be determined in the same manner as specified in section 69.772,
subdivision 3 .
(c) The minimum obligation of the independent nonprofit firefighting corporation on behalf
of the special fund of the subsidiary relief association shall be determined in the same manner
as specified in section 69.773, subdivision 5.
(d) The independent nonprofit firefighting corporation shall appropriate annually from the
income of the corporation an amount at least equal to the minimum obligation of the independent
nonprofit firefighting corporation on behalf of the special fund of the subsidiary relief association.
    Subd. 3. Authorized pension disbursements. Authorized disbursements of assets of the
special fund of the subsidiary relief association of the nonprofit firefighting corporation shall be
governed by the provisions of section 424A.05.
History: 1971 c 261 s 4; 1977 c 429 s 63; 1979 c 201 s 10; 1983 c 289 s 114 subd 1; 1984 c
655 art 1 s 92; 1989 c 304 s 137; 1990 c 480 art 6 s 6