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MN Stat § 356.195 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.195 — Service Credit Purchase Procedures For Strike Periods.

356.195 SERVICE CREDIT PURCHASE PROCEDURES FOR STRIKE PERIODS. Subdivision 1. Covered plans. This section applies to all defined benefit plans specified in section 356.30, subdivision 3, except clause (9). Subd. 2. Purchase procedure for strike periods. (a) An employee covered by a plan specified in subdivision 1 may purchase allowable service credit in the applicable plan for any period of time during which the employee was on a public employee strike without pay, not to exceed a period of one year, if the employee makes a payment in lieu of salary deductions as specified in paragraph (b) or (c), whichever applies. The employing unit, at its option, may pay the employer portion of the amount specified in paragraph (b) on behalf of its employees. (b) If payment is received by the applicable pension plan executive director within one year from the end of the strike, the payment amount is equal to the applicable employee and employer contribution rates specified in law for the applicable plan during the strike period, applied to the employee's rate of salary in effect at the conclusion of the strike for the period of the strike without pay, plus compound interest at the applicable monthly rate or rates specified in section 356.59, subdivision 2, 3, 4, or 5, whichever applies, from the last day of the strike period until the date payment is received. (c) If payment is received by the applicable pension fund director after one year and before five years from the end of the strike, the payment amount is the amount determined under section 356.551. (d) Payments may not be made more than five years after the end of the strike. History:  1Sp2005 c 8 art 2 s 1; 2007 c 134 art 2 s 42; 2014 c 275 art 2 s 25; 2015 c 68 art 3 s 13; 2018 c 211 art 6 s 35
MN Stat § 356.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.22 — Interpretation.

356.22 INTERPRETATION. Subdivision 1. Provision of additional valuations. No provision in sections 356.20 to 356.23 may be construed in any way to limit any of the enumerated pension and retirement funds from furnishing additional actuarial valuations or experience studies, or additional data and actuarial calculations, as may be requested by the legislature or any standing committee or by the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement. Subd. 2. Accelerated amortization. No provision in sections 356.20 to 356.23 may be construed to preclude any public pension and retirement fund enumerated in section 356.20, subdivision 2, from requesting, or the legislature from providing for, the amortization of any unfunded actuarial accrued liability in a shorter period of time than by the established date for full funding as determined under section 356.215, subdivision 11. Subd. 3. Additional required valuations. The legislature or any committee or commission which has assigned to it the subject of public pensions or public retirement plans may require actuarial valuations and experience studies in conformity with the provisions of sections 356.20 to 356.23 from any public pension and retirement plan or fund, whether enumerated in sections 356.20 to 356.23 or otherwise. History:  1965 c 359 s 3; 1975 c 192 s 4,5; 1979 c 184 s 2; 1981 c 224 s 171; 1Sp1985 c 7 s 35; 1987 c 259 s 57; 2002 c 392 art 11 s 11
MN Stat § 356.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.23 — Supplemental Valuations; Alternative Reports And Valuations.

356.23 SUPPLEMENTAL VALUATIONS; ALTERNATIVE REPORTS AND VALUATIONS. Subdivision 1. Supplemental actuarial valuations. Any supplemental actuarial valuations prepared on behalf of any governing or managing board of any pension and retirement fund enumerated in section 356.20, subdivision 2, by an approved actuary, must be prepared in accordance with the applicable provisions of sections 356.20 to 356.23 and with the standards adopted by the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement. Any pension and retirement fund which prepares an alternative actuarial valuation under subdivision 2 also must have a supplemental actuarial valuation prepared. Subd. 2. Alternative reports and valuations. In addition to the financial reports and actuarial valuations required by sections 356.20 to 356.23, the governing or managing board of any fund concerned may submit alternative reports and actuarial valuations for distribution to the legislature, any of its committees, or the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement on a different basis or on different assumptions than are specified in sections 356.20 to 356.23. The assumptions and basis of any alternative reports and valuations must be clearly stated in the document. History:  1965 c 359 s 4; 1971 c 7 s 7; 1975 c 192 s 6; 1984 c 655 art 1 s 59; 1987 c 259 s 58; 2002 c 392 art 11 s 12
MN Stat § 356.245 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.245 — Local Elected Officials.

356.245 LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS. An elected official who is covered by section 353.01, subdivision 2a, or 353D.01, subdivision 2, whichever applies, is eligible to participate in a deferred compensation plan under section 356.24. The applicable local governmental unit may make the matching employer contributions authorized by that section on the part of a participating elected official. History:  1988 c 709 art 9 s 3; 2002 c 392 art 11 s 17; 2015 c 68 art 13 s 46
MN Stat § 356.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.25 — Local Governmental Pension Fund Prohibitions; Exclusions.

356.25 LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL PENSION FUND PROHIBITIONS; EXCLUSIONS. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or charter to the contrary, no city, county, public agency or instrumentality, or other political subdivision is required or permitted to establish for any of its employees a local pension plan or fund financed in whole or in part from public funds, other than: (1) a supplemental pension or deferred compensation plan authorized under section 356.24; or (2) a volunteer firefighters relief association that is established under chapter 424A and is governed by sections 424A.091 to 424A.096. History:  1975 c 405 s 1; 1977 c 429 s 63; 1981 c 224 s 173; 1984 c 655 art 1 s 60; 2002 c 392 art 10 s 2; art 11 s 18; 2013 c 111 art 5 s 80
MN Stat § 356.311 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.311 — Coverage By More Than One Plan.

356.311 COVERAGE BY MORE THAN ONE PLAN. (a) Any person who has been a member of two or more of the retirement plans listed in paragraph (b) is entitled, when qualified, to an annuity from each fund if: (1) the person's combined service in any two or more retirement plans equals or exceeds the vesting requirement of the fund with the longest vesting requirement; and (2) the person has not taken a refund from any of the retirement plans. (b) This section applies to any defined benefit plan administered by the Minnesota State Retirement System, including the State Patrol Retirement Plan; the Public Employees Retirement Association, including the public employees police and fire plan; the Teachers Retirement Association; and the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, except as noted in paragraph (c). (c) This section does not apply to plans providing benefits for police officers or firefighters under sections 424A.091 to 424A.096 or the Bloomington Fire Department Relief Association. (d) No portion of the service upon which the retirement annuity from one retirement plan is based shall be again used in the computation of a retirement annuity from another plan. The annuity from each plan must be determined under the laws applicable to that plan except that the requirement that a person meet the vesting requirement in any particular plan shall not apply, provided the combined service in any two or more plans equals or exceeds the vesting requirement of the plan with the longest vesting requirement. (e) Any deferred annuity payable under this section shall be subject to augmentation under the laws applicable to the deferred annuity. (f) Any person to whom an annuity is not payable under this section because the person took a refund from one of the funds shall be entitled to repay the refund in accordance with the laws governing the refund. Upon repayment, the person is entitled to annuities under this section, if the person would otherwise be entitled. History:   2018 c 211 art 5 s 5
MN Stat § 356.315 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.315 — Retirement Benefit Formula Percentages.

356.315 RETIREMENT BENEFIT FORMULA PERCENTAGES. Subdivision 1.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 1a.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 2a.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 2b.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 4.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 5.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 5a.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 6.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 7.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 8.  [Repealed, 2013 c 111 art 4 s 21] Subd. 8a.  [Repealed, 2014 c 275 art 2 s 26] Subd. 9. Future benefit accrual rate increases. After January 2, 1998, benefit accrual rate increases under section 352.115, subdivision 3; 352.87, subdivision 3; 352.93, subdivision 3; 352.95, subdivision 1; 352B.08, subdivision 2; 352B.10, subdivision 1; 353.29, subdivision 3; 353.651, subdivision 3; 353.656, subdivision 1, 1a, or 3a; 353E.04, subdivision 3; 353E.06, subdivision 1; 354.44, subdivision 6; 354A.31, subdivision 4 or 4a; 356.30, subdivision 1; 490.121, subdivision 22; or 490.124, subdivision 1, must apply only to allowable service or formula service rendered after the effective date of the benefit accrual rate increase. History:  2002 c 392 art 11 s 22; 2006 c 277 art 3 s 38,39; 2010 c 359 art 1 s 75; 2013 c 111 art 4 s 18; art 14 s 1
MN Stat § 356.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.32 — Proportionate Annuity At Age 65.

356.32 PROPORTIONATE ANNUITY AT AGE 65. Subdivision 1. Proportionate retirement annuity. (a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of the laws governing any of the retirement funds enumerated in subdivision 2, any person who is an active member of any applicable fund, who has credit for at least one year of allowable service in one or more of the covered plans, and who terminates active service under a mandatory retirement law or policy or at the normal retirement age but not less than age 65, is entitled upon making written application on the form prescribed by the chief administrative officer of the plan to a proportionate retirement annuity from each covered plan in which the person has at least six months of allowable service credit. (b) The proportionate annuity must be calculated under the applicable laws governing annuities based upon allowable service credit at the time of retirement and the person's average salary for the highest five successive years of allowable service or the average salary for the entire period of allowable service if less than five years. (c) Nothing in this section prevents the imposition of the appropriate early retirement reduction of an annuity which commences before the normal retirement age. Subd. 2. Covered retirement plans. The provisions of this section apply to the following retirement plans: (1) the general state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota State Retirement System, established under chapter 352; (2) the correctional state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota State Retirement System, established under chapter 352; (3) the State Patrol retirement plan, established under chapter 352B; (4) the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, established under chapter 353; (5) the public employees police and fire plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, established under chapter 353; (6) the local government correctional service retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, established under chapter 353E; (7) the Teachers Retirement Association, established under chapter 354; and (8) the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association, established under chapter 354A. History:  1975 c 183 s 2; 1976 c 130 s 1; 1978 c 649 s 3; 1978 c 796 s 44; 1979 c 40 s 10; 1979 c 217 s 27; 1980 c 342 s 15; 1981 c 37 s 2; 1981 c 224 s 174; 1981 c 298 s 11; 1987 c 372 art 1 s 21; 1989 c 319 art 13 s 93; 1995 c 141 art 3 s 20; 1997 c 233 art 1 s 63; 2002 c 392 art 11 s 23; 2009 c 169 art 11 s 2; 2010 c 359 art 12 s 29; 2014 c 296 art 6 s 39,49; 2015 c 68 art 12 s 38; art 14 s 22; 2018 c 211 art 13 s 1
MN Stat § 356.40 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.40 — Date For Payment Of Annuities And Benefits.

356.40 DATE FOR PAYMENT OF ANNUITIES AND BENEFITS. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all annuities and benefits payable by a covered retirement fund, as defined in section 356.30, subdivision 3, must be paid in advance for each month during the first week of that month. (b) In no event, however, may this section authorize the payment of both a retirement annuity and a surviving spouse's benefit in one month where the law governing the applicable retirement fund provides for the payment of the retired member's retirement annuity to the surviving spouse for the month in which the retired member dies. History:  1977 c 388 s 3; 2002 c 392 art 11 s 24; 2015 c 68 art 13 s 47
MN Stat § 356.403 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.403 — Normal Retirement Age; Savings Clause.

356.403 NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE; SAVINGS CLAUSE. The intent of the legislature in sections 352.01, subdivision 25; 353.01, subdivision 37; 354.05, subdivision 38; and 354A.011, subdivision 15a, is to create a normal retirement age for persons first covered by those sections after May 16, 1989, that is the same as the retirement age in the federal Social Security law, including future amendments to that law. If a court determines that the legislature may not incorporate by reference the future changes in federal Social Security law, the legislature reserves the right to amend the appropriate sections to make the normal retirement age conform to the retirement age in the federal Social Security law. No person first covered by any of those sections after May 16, 1989, has a right to a normal retirement age that is less than the retirement age in the federal Social Security law. History:   2002 c 392 art 11 s 25
MN Stat § 356.407 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.407 — Restoration Of Survivor Benefits.

356.407 RESTORATION OF SURVIVOR BENEFITS. Subdivision 1. Restoration upon termination of remarriage. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of the laws governing any of the retirement plans enumerated in subdivision 2, any person who was receiving a surviving spouse's benefit from any of those plans and whose benefit terminated solely because of remarriage is, if the remarriage terminates for any reason, again entitled upon reapplication to a surviving spouse's benefit; provided, however, that the person is not entitled to retroactive payments for the period of remarriage. The benefit resumes at the level which the person would have been receiving if there had been no remarriage. Subd. 2. Covered funds. The provisions of this section apply to the following retirement funds: (1) the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association established under chapter 353; (2) the public employees police and fire plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association established under chapter 353; (3) the State Patrol retirement plan established under chapter 352B; (4) the legislators retirement plan established under chapter 3A; (5) the elective state officers retirement plan established under chapter 352C; and (6) the Teachers Retirement Association established under chapter 354. History:  2002 c 392 art 11 s 28; 2010 c 359 art 12 s 31; 2015 c 68 art 13 s 48; art 14 s 24
MN Stat § 356.408 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.408 — Termination Of Survivor Designation.

356.408 TERMINATION OF SURVIVOR DESIGNATION. Subdivision 1. Authorization to terminate optional annuity form. A public pension plan retired member receiving a joint and survivor retirement annuity or a person receiving a joint and survivor disability benefit from a plan listed in section 356.30, subdivision 3, and the designated survivor of that person may mutually agree to terminate the survivor designation by filing a termination statement on a form and in the manner specified by the chief administrative officer of the applicable public pension plan. Upon filing a valid termination statement accepted by the chief administrative officer, the rights of the designated survivor to receive a benefit upon death of the plan retired or disabled annuitant are terminated, and the retired or disabled annuitant must receive a normal single-life annuity. Subd. 2. Revised annuity form. The replacement single life annuity must be actuarially equivalent to the joint and survivor annuity as of the first day of the month following acceptance of the valid termination statement by the chief administrative officer and payment of this revised prospective annuity begins on that same date. Subd. 3. Application. This section does not apply if the designated survivor is the spouse or former spouse of the plan member. Subd. 4. Termination statement form requirements. The annuity form termination statements must be in written form and must be notarized. Before accepting any signed form or forms, the chief administrative officer of the applicable pension plan must offer counseling to the retired or disabled annuitant and the designated survivor regarding the implications of the annuity form waiver. The forms must indicate that this counseling has been offered and either has been completed or has been waived by the retired or disabled annuitant and the designated survivor. Subd. 5. Prohibition against further annuity form revisions. No retired or disabled annuitant who waives the annuity form under this section may further revise the annuity form at any later date. History:   2013 c 111 art 7 s 7
MN Stat § 356.431 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.431 — Conversion Of Lump-sum Postretirement And Supplemental Payment To An Increased Monthly Annuity.

356.431 CONVERSION OF LUMP-SUM POSTRETIREMENT AND SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENT TO AN INCREASED MONTHLY ANNUITY. Subdivision 1. Lump-sum postretirement payment conversion. For benefits paid to eligible persons under Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 356.42, the amount of the most recent lump-sum benefit payable to an eligible recipient under Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 356.42 must be divided by 12. The result must be added to the monthly annuity or benefit otherwise payable to an eligible recipient, must become a permanent part of the benefit recipient's pension, and must be included in any pension benefit subject to future postretirement adjustments. Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 2009 c 169 art 1 s 77] History:  2002 c 392 art 11 s 32; 2005 c 10 art 5 s 3; 2010 c 359 art 12 s 33; 2015 c 68 art 13 s 54
MN Stat § 356.441 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.441 — Payment Acceptance Allowed.

356.441 PAYMENT ACCEPTANCE ALLOWED. Subdivision 1. Payment authorization. The repayment of a refund and interest on that refund or the payment of equivalent contributions and interest for an eligible leave of absence, as permitted under laws governing any public pension plan in Minnesota, may be made: (1) with funds distributed or transferred from a plan qualified under the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, section 401, subsection (a) or (k); 403; 408; or 457, subsection (b), as amended from time to time; or (2) with funds distributed from an individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity, if done solely in a manner that is eligible for treatment as a nontaxable rollover or transfer under the applicable federal law. Subd. 2. Separate accounting requirement. Nontaxable rollovers or transfer amounts under subdivision 1 received by a public pension fund must be separately accounted for as member contributions not previously taxed. Before accepting any rollovers or transfers to which this section applies, the executive director shall require the member to provide written documentation to demonstrate that the amounts to be rolled over or transferred are eligible for a tax-free rollover or transfer and qualify for that treatment under the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. History:  2002 c 392 art 11 s 34; 2004 c 267 art 9 s 22
MN Stat § 356.461 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement|Chapter 356 — Retirement Systems, Generally|Section 356.461 — Various Retirement Systems; Joint And Survivor Annuity Computation.

356.461 VARIOUS RETIREMENT SYSTEMS; JOINT AND SURVIVOR ANNUITY COMPUTATION. Subdivision 1. Joint and survivor annuity computation. Notwithstanding any provision of section 356.215, subdivision 8, or 356.415 to the contrary, for purposes of computing joint and survivor annuities, the applicable investment return assumption is 6.5 percent. Subd. 2. Covered plans. This section applies to the following retirement plans: (1) the legislators retirement plan, established under chapter 3A, including constitutional officers as specified in that chapter; (2) the correctional state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota State Retirement System, established under chapter 352; (3) the general state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota State Retirement System, established under chapter 352; (4) the State Patrol retirement plan, established under chapter 352B; (5) the unclassified state employees retirement program of the Minnesota State Retirement System, established under chapter 352D; (6) the judges retirement plan, established under chapter 490; (7) the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, established under chapter 353; (8) the public employees police and fire retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, established under chapter 353; (9) the local government correctional service retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, established under chapter 353E; and (10) the Teachers Retirement Association, established under chapter 354. History:  2014 c 296 art 4 s 8; 2015 c 68 art 14 s 26; 1Sp2019 c 8 art 8 s 23