1998 Florida Code
TITLE XII MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 185 Municipal Police Officers' Retirement Trust Funds  
185.162   Beneficiaries.

185.162  Beneficiaries.--

(1)  Each police officer may, on a form, provided for that purpose, signed and filed with the board of trustees, designate a beneficiary (or beneficiaries) to receive the benefit, if any, which may be payable in the event of the police officer's death, and each designation may be revoked by such police officer by signing and filing with the board of trustees a new designation or beneficiary form.

(2)  If a deceased police officer failed to name a beneficiary in the manner above prescribed, or if the beneficiary (or beneficiaries) named by a deceased police officer predeceases the police officer, the death benefit, if any, which may be payable under the plan with respect to such deceased police officer may be paid, in the discretion of the board of trustees, either to:

(a)  Any one or more of the persons comprising the group consisting of the police officer's spouse, the police officer's descendants, the police officer's parents, or the police officer's heirs at law, and the board of trustees may pay the entire benefit to any member of such group or apportion such benefit among any two or more of them in such shares as the board of trustees, in its sole discretion, shall determine, or

(b)  The estate of such deceased police officer, provided that in any of such cases the board of trustees, in its discretion, may direct that the commuted value of the remaining monthly income payments be paid in a lump sum. Any payment made to any person pursuant to the power and discretion conferred upon the board of trustees by the preceding sentence shall operate as a complete discharge of all obligations under the plan with regard to such deceased police officer and shall not be subject to review by anyone, but shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons ever interested hereunder.

(3)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the surviving spouse of any pension participant member killed in the line of duty shall not lose survivor retirement benefits if the spouse remarries. The surviving spouse of such deceased member whose benefit terminated because of remarriage shall have the benefit reinstated as of July 1, 1994, at an amount that would have been payable had such benefit not been terminated. This paragraph shall apply to all municipalities which receive state excise tax moneys as provided in s. 185.08.

History.--s. 7, ch. 59-320; s. 5, ch. 94-171; s. 1459, ch. 95-147.