§ 24-11-830. Deferred retirement option plan
(a) In lieu of terminating employment and accepting a service retirement pension pursuant to this subchapter, any full-paid firefighter who is a member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund who has not less than twenty (20) years of credited service and who is eligible to receive a service retirement pension may elect to participate […]
§ 24-11-832. Applicability of § 24-11-820
The provisions of § 24-11-820(b)(1) and (2) extending the survivorship benefits for children of deceased firefighters through their college years shall apply retroactively to any situation involving a surviving child that began on or after January 1, 1996.
§ 24-11-833. Fire-related service
(a) A member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund who has fire-related service with the municipal government is entitled to purchase credited service in the system equivalent to the amount of employment service he or she has with the municipal fire department in a position as fire-related employment service up to a maximum of […]
§ 24-11-834. Former military service credit purchase
(a) An active member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund may purchase credited service in the pension fund equivalent to a period not to exceed five (5) years for service rendered by the member while on active duty in the United States Armed Forces before the member’s employment covered by the pension fund, if […]
§ 24-11-817. Military service
(a) In the event that a member of a firemen’s relief and pension fund, while an employee, enters the United States Armed Forces during any period of compulsory or voluntary military service, the armed service actually served by him or her shall be credited him or her as service under this subchapter. (b) (1) In […]
§ 24-11-818. Benefits — Voluntary retirement
(a) (1) (A) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the term “salary” shall mean recurring pays that are received for the firefighter’s regularly scheduled workweek and shall not include, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (a)(1)(B) of this section, payments for unused accrued sick leave or annual leave or the cash […]
§ 24-11-819. Benefits — Disability retirement
(a) (1) Any firefighter who becomes totally and permanently physically or mentally incapacitated for any suitable duty as an employee as a result of personal injury or disease may be retired by the board, upon written application filed by or on behalf of the member, if, after medical examination of the member made by or […]
§ 24-11-820. Benefits — Death of active or retired member other than while employed outside department
(a) (1) Whenever any member of a fire department of any city, town, or fire improvement district covered by this act shall have lost his or her life, except while actually performing work in gainful employment outside the fire department, or any retired member shall die, leaving a spouse or children under nineteen (19) years […]
§ 24-11-822. Benefits — Payments upon death of retirant or beneficiary
(a) (1) If a retirant and his or her eligible beneficiary, if any, of a local firemen’s relief and pension fund authorized by this subchapter, both die before they have received in annuity payments a total amount equal to the accumulated contributions, including any interest credits standing to the retirant’s credit in the system at […]
§ 24-11-823. Increase in benefits for certain persons retired due to total permanent disability
(a) The board of trustees of any municipal firemen’s relief and pension fund may increase benefits to persons who have retired or may retire from the fire department of the municipality because of total and permanent disability and who qualify or may qualify for monthly benefits of less than five hundred dollars ($500). (b) The […]