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18-05 Firefighters Relief Association and Pension Fund

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CHAPTER 18-05FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ASSOCIATION AND PENSION FUND18-05-01. Firefighters relief association - Where it may be organized. A firefightersrelief association may be organized in any city, rural fire department, or rural fire protection<br>district that has a fire department. In organizing a firefighters relief association, the procedure<br>provided in chapter 10-33 must be followed.18-05-02. Control of funds - Derivation of funds. Through its board of trustees andofficers, a firefighters relief association has full charge, management, and control of the funds<br>provided for in this chapter, which funds must be derived from the following sources:1.From interest, rents, gifts, or money from other sources; and2.From funds received from the state.18-05-03. Treasurer of relief association to furnish bond. Before entering upon theduties of office, the treasurer of every firefighters relief association shall give a good and<br>sufficient bond to the association conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of treasurer,<br>and for the safekeeping and paying over, according to law, of all moneys that come into the<br>treasurer's hands while acting as treasurer.18-05-04. Apportioning insurance tax received by city, rural fire department, orrural fire protection district. The city auditor in a city or the treasurer of a rural fire department<br>or rural fire protection district with a fire department and a firefighters relief association shall<br>apportion the amount received under section 18-04-05, so one-half of the amount is placed in a<br>fund to be disbursed by the city's, rural fire department's, or rural fire protection district's<br>governing body in maintaining the fire department and one-half is paid to the treasurer of the<br>firefighters relief association. Except, the city's governing body may direct the city auditor or the<br>rural fire department or rural fire protection district's board of directors may direct the treasurer to<br>pay all or any portion of the one-half of the amount received which would otherwise be disbursed<br>in maintaining the fire department to the treasurer of the firefighters relief association if its<br>financial condition makes the disposition necessary or advisable.18-05-05.Disbursement of money received by treasurer of firefighters reliefassociation. The amount received by the treasurer of a firefighters relief association from the<br>state may be disbursed for the following purposes only:1.For the maintenance of the association.2.For pensions to and the relief of sick, injured, and disabled members of any fire<br>department in the municipality, rural fire department, or the rural fire protection<br>district and the members' surviving spouses and children.3.For the payment of service pensions as provided in section 18-05-06 in the amounts<br>and manner the association designates in its articles of incorporation and bylaws.18-05-06. Service pension - Who may receive - Recipient entitled to no further relieffrom association.1.A firefighters relief association organized under the laws of this state must be an<br>internal revenue service approved plan.2.A firefighters relief association organized under the laws of this state may pay out of<br>any funds received from the state, city, municipality, or any other source a service<br>pension in an amount as may be provided by the association's bylaws to each of its<br>members who has retired and who:Page No. 1a.Has reached the age of fifty years; andb.Meets all the requirements of the firefighters relief association bylaws.3.A pension may not be paid to any individual while that individual remains a member<br>of the fire department, rural fire department, or rural fire protection district<br>department, and an individual who is receiving a service pension is entitled to no<br>other relief from the association.18-05-07.Eligibility for service pension may be acquired by paying backassessments. A firefighter who, for the number of years required for retirement, actually has<br>served in a fire department in a municipality, rural fire department, or rural fire protection district<br>in which a firefighters relief association has been organized and who pays into the firefighters<br>relief and pension fund maintained in the municipality, rural fire department, or rural fire<br>protection district assessments equal to the amounts assessed against the members of the<br>association during the time of the firefighter's service in the department, with interest upon the<br>assessments, must be allowed membership in the association and is entitled to receive, upon<br>retirement, the same pension from the fund as is paid to other firefighters. The bylaws of an<br>association may not contain any provision that discriminates against a firefighter who actually has<br>worked as a firefighter during the number of years required by the bylaws or which prevents the<br>firefighter from, or discriminates against the firefighter in, participating in the association or in the<br>benefits from the fund. The rights provided for in this chapter are acquired by compliance with<br>this section whether compliance was accomplished before or after July 1, 1935, without regard to<br>the time when the required service was performed.18-05-08. Pensions to be uniform - Reduction or increase in pensions authorized.All pensions granted in a municipality or rural fire protection district under the provisions of this<br>chapter must be uniform in amount. Every association, however, may reduce or increase the<br>amount of pensions, within the limitations contained in this chapter, whenever the amount of<br>funds on hand or other good reason renders such action advisable.18-05-09.Who deemed firefighter.A substitute firefighter, a person serving onprobation, and a firefighter in a municipality, rural fire department, or rural fire protection district<br>having a relief association in its fire department who is not a member of the association may not<br>be deemed a firefighter within the meaning of this chapter.18-05-10.Qualifications as to age inapplicable to pension for disability.Thequalifications as to age prescribed by this chapter do not apply to a member of a fire department<br>who makes an application for a pension on account of injuries or disabilities that result in the<br>firefighter being unfit to perform the duties of an active firefighter. The relief association shall pay<br>the pension to those members, or to the surviving spouse or children of a deceased firefighter, in<br>the amounts and under the limitations and conditions as its articles of incorporation and bylaws<br>provide and permit. A pension paid to any one family, however, may not exceed the maximum<br>monthly service pension permitted under this chapter.18-05-11.Money received under pension not subject to legal process -Assignments. 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