§ 21-29-201. Creation of disability and relief fund and system for firemen and policemen
In each city in the State of Mississippi having a population of not less than three thousand (3,000) according to the last federal census or according to any subsequent federal census, and having a regularly organized, paid fire department with equipment of the value of not less than Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) and/or regularly organized […]
§ 21-29-203. Election as to inauguration of disability and relief fund and system
Said fund and system of relief to the fire department and/or police department shall be inaugurated in each municipality only in the following manner: each municipality desiring to create said fund and inaugurate this system of disability and relief for its firemen and/or policemen, shall call an election after giving three weeks consecutive notice in […]
§ 21-29-205. Election as to continuation of disability and relief system and fund; effect thereof; discontinuance of new memberships
Whenever the said fund shall be created, and a system of disability and relief for firemen and/or policemen inaugurated in any municipality, at any time upon the petition of not less than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of said municipality addressed to the said officers composing the governing board of said municipality, requesting […]
§ 21-29-207. Organization of board of disability and relief; advisory board; compensation
The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi shall organize itself into a body to be known as the “Board of Disability and Relief of the City of_______________ .” In each municipality there shall be a board to serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees of the Public […]
§ 21-29-209. Powers and duties of the board of disability and relief
The board shall fix a time for regular meetings in its minutes and it shall keep minutes of its meetings, which shall be public records. Special meetings may be held upon the call of the chairman of the board or any two (2) members thereof, upon twenty-four (24) hours’ written notice, stating the purpose of […]
§ 21-29-215. Creation of board of disability and relief appeals
The commissioner of insurance, the attorney general, and the secretary of state of the State of Mississippi, shall be and are constituted a body to be known as the “board of disability and relief appeals,” with full duty and power to hear, consider and determine all matters brought before it on appeal from decisions of […]
§ 21-29-217. Appeals
Any applicant for benefits of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, or any two (2) active members of said fire department, or any two (2) active members of said police department, being aggrieved at the decision or order of the board of trustees, may file with the board of trustees and with […]
§ 21-29-219. Funding; ad valorem tax, or use of other funds, contributions, and salary deductions
The Disability and Relief Fund for Firemen and Policemen shall be created and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, maintained by an ad valorem tax levied annually on all property in the municipality, provided the election called for in Section 21-29-203 has authorized the creation of the fund. The levy made, […]
§ 21-29-220. Tax proceeds transferred to Public Employees’ Retirement System
The Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi is hereby authorized to deduct two percent (2%) of all tax levied hereunder and paid into the “disability and relief fund” for firemen and policemen to be transferred to the expense fund of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi to defray the cost of administering this fund.
§ 21-29-221. Discontinuance and reinstatement of ad valorem tax; actuarial study
The ad valorem tax provided for in Section 21-29-219 shall be stopped by the municipality whenever the interest from the relief fund shall be sufficient to pay all disabilities and relief which are a charge against said fund and future requirements as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of […]