2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 419 - 425 Municipal Personnel, Retirement
Chapter 424A Volunteer Firefighters' Retirement
Section 424A.03 UNIFORMITY OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SERVICE PENSION AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

424A.03 UNIFORMITY OF VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SERVICE PENSION AND
RETIREMENT BENEFITS.
Subdivision 1. Limitation on nonuniformity of pensions. Every partially salaried and
partially volunteer firefighters' relief association shall provide service pensions to volunteer
firefighter members based on the years of service of the members not on the compensation paid to
the members for firefighting services. Each relief association shall provide service pensions to
salaried members as set forth in chapter 424 and applicable special laws.
Subd. 2. Penalties for violations. Any municipality which has a fire department to which a
relief association which violates the provisions of subdivision 1 is directly associated or which
contracts with an independent nonprofit firefighting corporation of which a relief association which
violates the provisions of subdivision 1 is a subsidiary shall not be included in the apportionment
of fire state aid by the commissioner of commerce to the applicable county auditor pursuant to
section 69.021, subdivision 6, and shall not be included in the apportionment of fire state aid by
the county auditor to the various municipalities pursuant to section 69.021, subdivision 7.
Subd. 3. Exception to application of limitation and penalty. The limitation provided for
in subdivision 1 shall not apply to any relief association which prior to January 1, 1957, had
established a definite service pension formula for members of the partially salaried and partially
volunteer firefighters' relief association who are regularly employed firefighters.
History: 1979 c 201 s 13; 1983 c 219 s 7; 1983 c 289 s 114 subd 1; 1984 c 655 art 1 s 92