§ 45-19-12.2 - Annuities to dependents of deceased auxiliary and volunteer fire fighters and appropriations to nondependent parents of deceased auxiliary and volunteer fire fighters.
SECTION 45-19-12.2
§ 45-19-12.2 Annuities to dependents ofdeceased auxiliary and volunteer fire fighters and appropriations tonondependent parents of deceased auxiliary and volunteer fire fighters. –(a) If an active member of a volunteer or auxiliary fire force or volunteercrash rescue or ambulance corps is killed or dies from injuries received whilein the performance of his or her duty there, shall be paid out of the firefighter's relief fund of Rhode Island to the following dependents of thedeceased person, the following sums of money:
(1) To the widow or widower or domestic partner beginning atthe death, an annuity not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600)a year, payable in regular installments as may be determined by the board andcontinuing as long as he or she remains unmarried or not in a domesticpartnership;
(2) An additional annuity of one thousand two hundred dollars($1,200) a year, payable in regular installments determined by the board, foreach child of the deceased person during the time that the child is under theage of eighteen (18) years, or over that age and physically or mentallyincapacitated from earning;
(3) If there is any child and no widow or widower or domesticpartner or the widow or widower or domestic partner dies later, the sum andannuity that should have been payable to the widow or widower or domesticpartner had there been one or had he or she lived, to or for the benefit of thechild or of the children, in equal shares during the previously stated time;
(4) If there is any child and the widow or widower ordomestic partner remarries or enters into a domestic partnership, in lieu ofthe previously stated annuity to him or her, an annuity not exceeding onethousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) to or for the benefit of each childduring the previously stated time;
(5) If there is no widow or widower or domestic partner andno child, the total sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) payable in a lump forthe benefit of the father and/or mother of the deceased, if not dependent uponhim or her for support at the time of his or her death; and
(6) If there is no widow or widower or domestic partner andno child, the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) payable inregular installments by the board of fire fighter's relief, to or for thebenefit of the father or mother of the deceased, if dependent upon him or herfor support at the time of his or her death, and beginning at the death andcontinuing so long as the beneficiary is unable to support himself or herselfand does not remarry or enter into a domestic partnership, an annuity notexceeding three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) a year, payable inregular installments determined by the board.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be retroactive toJuly 1, 1988.