NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 532

HOUSE BILL 899

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS OF MONROE FIREMEN.  

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 31, 1975 Session Laws, First Session, is deleted and the following substituted:

"Sec. 3. This act does not modify or alter in any way the Workmen's Compensation Laws of the State of North Carolina."

Sec. 2. Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 4 of Chapter 31, 1975 Session Laws, First Session, are deleted and the following substituted:

"(a)      Each full-time member of the Monroe Fire Department of the City of Monroe who retired after January 1, 1975, with 30 years or more of service as a member of the Monroe Fire Department, or each full-time member of the Monroe Fire Department of the City of Monroe who retired after January 1, 1975, with 25 years or more of service as a member of the Monroe Fire Department and who is at least 55 years old or any member of the Monroe Fire Department who for any reason has become totally and permanently disabled to perform his normal duties and has served as a member of the Monroe Fire Department in and for the City of Monroe for a period of five or more years, shall be entitled to and shall receive in each calendar year, following the calendar year in which he retires, the supplemental retirement benefits as follows: one share for each full year of service as a member of the fire department of the City of Monroe. The amount of each share shall be determined annually by dividing the total number of years served by all eligible retired members of the fire department into the total amount set aside by the Board of Trustees to be disbursed for the calendar year; provided, in no event shall any retired full-time member of the fire department be entitled to or receive in any year an annual supplemental benefit in excess of six hundred dollars ($600.00).

(b)       Public service officers (PSO) shall be considered full-time members of the fire department for receiving supplemental retirement benefits based on age but shall be considered full-time members of the fire department for supplemental retirement benefits based on permanent disability only when the disability was caused as a result of performing their duties as members of the fire department."

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1981.