2006 Minnesota Statutes

422A.151 ALTERNATIVE CALCULATION OF ANNUITY.
(a) In the case of a contributing member of the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund who
is employed as a licensed peace officer or firefighter with the Metropolitan Airports Commission
and who retires, becomes disabled within the meaning of section 422A.18, or dies, the retirement,
disability, or survivor allowance is equal to the higher of the following:
(1) the retirement, disability, or survivor allowance calculated for the person under the
applicable provisions of the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund; or
(2) the retirement, disability, or survivor benefit that the person would be entitled to upon
meeting the applicable age and allowable service requirements of section 353.651, 353.656, or
353.657 if all employment as a licensed peace officer or firefighter with the Metropolitan Airports
Commission had been allowable service under the Public Employees Retirement Association
police and fire fund, instead of being covered by the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund.
In computing the alternative benefit under section 353.651, 353.656, or 353.657, the applicable
definitions and related provisions of chapter 353 must be used.
A firefighter or licensed peace officer terminating employment by the Metropolitan Airports
Commission after June 30, 1997, or the survivor of a deceased firefighter or licensed peace officer
terminating employment by the Metropolitan Airports Commission after June 30, 1997, under
section 353.651, 353.656, or 353.657, shall receive a one percent lower cost-of-living adjustment
than otherwise payable under section 422A.06, subdivision 5. If the cost-of-living adjustment
payable under section 422A.06, subdivision 5, is less than one percent, the firefighter or licensed
peace officer who retired after June 30, 1997, must not have a reduction in the previously received
annuity or benefit amount, but future cost-of-living adjustments must be modified equal to the
percentage the benefit would have been reduced below the person's current annuity or benefit
amount to reflect the one percent lower cost-of-living adjustment under section 422A.06,
subdivision 5 .
(b) If a contributing member under paragraph (a) has periods of coverage by the Minneapolis
Employees Retirement Fund that include service other than employment as a licensed peace
officer or firefighter as well as employment as a licensed peace officer or firefighter, the calculation
of the benefit under paragraph (a), clause (2), may only utilize service as a licensed peace officer
or firefighter employed by the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
History: 1992 c 596 s 6; 1997 c 233 art 1 s 65