§ 21-29-261. Application of article
This article shall apply to municipalities whether under private charter or existing and operating under the general statutes of the State of Mississippi.
§ 21-29-257. Exemption from process
No part of said fund to which any of said firemen or policemen shall be entitled, or which may be payable or ordered paid to him shall be seized, attached, assigned or levied upon by any writ of attachment, garnishment, execution, sequestration or other like process or writ.
§ 21-29-259. Suit shall not be filed in cases of insufficient fund
Should said fund at any time be insufficient to make all payments properly payable therefrom, the beneficiaries shall not file any suit against said city, its governing authorities, or said disability and relief board, but the amounts available shall be properly prorated until such time as funds may be sufficient to make all payments thereafter […]
§ 21-29-243. Physical and mental examination
In all matters involving the disability or sickness of a member of such fire and/or police department, such member shall submit himself to physical and mental examination when and as required by said disability and relief board of said governing authorities. A failure or refusal so to do shall suspend the benefits of this article […]
§ 21-29-245. Retirement benefits
If any member of said fire and/or police department who has been in paid fire and/or police department service for as long as twenty (20) years before making application hereinafter mentioned, the last ten (10) years of which shall have been continuous in the city in which the application is made, shall make written application […]
§ 21-29-247. Cost-of-living increases
From and after January 1, 1971, all persons receiving retirement benefits under Section 21-29-245, or becoming eligible for retirement benefits under Section 21-29-245, and retiring or to be retired from service in a municipality having an assessed valuation of at least Three Hundred Forty Million Dollars $340,000,000.00, according to the 1967 compiled assessment rolls, shall […]
§ 21-29-249. Refunds
Any member of the fire and/or police department who ceases to be an employee before becoming eligible to receive either a service or disability allowance, as provided by this article, may request in writing to the board of disability and relief for a refund, but without interest, which he shall be paid within one year […]
§ 21-29-251. Alternative program; retirement benefits
Any municipality which has a population in excess of twenty thousand according to the 1970 federal decennial census and which lies within any Class 1 county touching the Mississippi River, located wholly within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District and which has an approximate land area of five hundred seventy square miles, is hereby authorized and […]
§ 21-29-253. Alternative program; refunds
Any member of said fire and/or police department who ceases to be an employee thereof prior to becoming eligible for any retirement relief provided for in Section 21-29-251 may file a written application to said disability and relief board for a refund of any and all monies contributed to said fund by said member, and […]
§ 21-29-255. Death benefits
[For any municipality that has not elected to authorize the continuation or reinstatement of spouse retirement benefits under the provisions of Section 21-29-329, this section shall read as follows:] If any member of the fire or police department dies in active service, or dies in inactive service on account of disability approved for disability relief […]