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(a) By board action, the board of trustees may employ a commercial firm normally engaged in providing trust services, if each employee of the trust department who handles the trust funds is covered by a good and sufficient fidelity bond, to act as the agent for the board of the trust for the purpose of maintaining and administering the fund and to provide such assistance or services as the board of the trust may reasonably require in the performance of its duties.
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(b) The bank or firm so employed shall not have the authority to make any investment decision or any determination as to the eligibility of any person entitled to receive a pension or any other benefit from the fund, nor to make any determination as to the amount of any pension or benefit which any person may be entitled to receive from the fund.
