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WY Stat § 15-5-307 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-307 - Retirement Age; Length of Service; Pension Amounts; Leaving Service Early; Benefit Adjustment.

15-5-307. Retirement age; length of service; pension amounts; leaving service early; benefit adjustment.| (a) When any person duly appointed or selected and sworn as a member in any capacity or rank, other than department chief, of the police department of any city or town subject to the provisions of this article becomes sixty (60) years of age, the board shall order that person retired from further service. When any person has served twenty (20) years with the same police department, he may retire at that time, although not sixty (60) years of age, except that any person employed after June 30, 1981 shall serve for twenty (20) continuous years with the same department in order to be eligible for retirement prior to age sixty (60). When the board issues an order of retirement, it terminates the service of the person in the police department, except as provided in cases of emergency, and that person during his lifetime shall be paid a yearly pension equal to two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) of the average annual salary received during his highest paid five (5) year period, multiplied by the number of years service. However, no pension may exceed sixty-two and one-half percent (62 1/2%) of the average salary for the five (5) year period.  (b) If for any reason the person leaves the service before completion of ten (10) years of service he shall receive in one (1) sum the amount without interest he has paid into the pension fund. After the completion of ten (10) years service he has the option of drawing out the money paid in or leaving it until he reaches the age of sixty (60) years and then being eligible to retire under the provisions of this section.  (c) In addition to any other benefit provided by this section, each retired person shall receive a benefit of three percent (3%) per year for each full year that person has received retirement payments under this article prior to July 1, 1981.
WY Stat § 15-5-308 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-308 - Retirement Age; Physical Disability; Pension Amounts; Reinstatement.

15-5-308. Retirement age; physical disability; pension amounts; reinstatement.| (a) If any person, while serving as a policeman is physically disabled as a result of any bodily injury received in the immediate or direct performance or discharge of his duties, the board, upon his written request filed with the secretary of the board, or without the written request if it deems it to be for the benefit of the public, shall retire that person from the department and order that he be paid from the fund during his lifetime a monthly pension equal to sixty-two and one-half percent (62 1/2%) of the amount of his regular monthly salary, effective at the time of his retirement. If the officer's disability is off-duty related, the officer shall receive a monthly pension equal to fifty percent (50%) of his monthly salary effective at the time of his retirement. If the disability ceases, the pension shall cease, and the person shall be restored to active service at the existing salary of his position or rank at the time he is reinstated.  (b) Repealed by Laws 1991, ch. 71, § 2.
WY Stat § 15-5-309 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-309 - Death Benefits; Surviving Spouse and Children; Amounts; Length of Payments; Benefit Adjustment.

15-5-309. Death benefits; surviving spouse and children; amounts; length of payments; benefit adjustment.| (a) Upon the death from any cause, of any person appointed or selected and sworn as a member in any capacity or rank of the police department of any city or town subject to the provisions of this article, the board shall pay a monthly pension of fifty percent (50%) of the deceased officer's monthly salary out of the funds to his surviving spouse. The pension shall continue during her life or until she remarries. In addition, the board shall pay to the surviving spouse out of the fund six percent (6%) of the deceased officer's monthly salary per month for the support and maintenance of each child of the deceased officer who is under eighteen (18) years of age and was supported by him prior to his death. The payments shall continue until the child becomes eighteen (18) years of age or marries.  (b) If the police officer is retired and drawing his pension at the time of his death, and leaves a wife surviving, the board shall pay a monthly pension out of the fund to his surviving spouse equal to two-thirds (2/3) of the pension the retired police officer was receiving at the time of his death. In addition, the board shall pay to the surviving spouse or legal guardian sixty dollars ($60.00) per month out of the fund for the support and maintenance of each child of the deceased, retired officer who is under eighteen (18) years of age and was supported by him prior to his death. The payments shall continue until the child becomes eighteen (18) years of age or marries.  (c) In addition to any other benefit provided by this section, each surviving spouse of a person who died while receiving retirement payments under this article shall receive a benefit of three percent (3%) for each full year that payments were made under this article prior to July 1, 1981 to both the retired person before death and the surviving spouse.  (d) Effective July 1, 1987, any surviving spouse and any surviving child of any officer who died prior to July 1, 1979 while a sworn member of the police department of any city or town subject to this article shall receive a benefit in an amount as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
WY Stat § 15-5-310 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-310 - Examination of Disabled Retiree.

15-5-310. Examination of disabled retiree.| Any person retired for disability may be summoned by written notice to appear before the board at any time thereafter for examination as to his fitness for duty, and he shall abide by the decision and order of the board with reference thereto.
WY Stat § 15-5-311 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-311 - Benefits Terminated Upon Felony Conviction.

15-5-311. Benefits terminated upon felony conviction.| If any person receiving any benefit from the fund is convicted of a felony, the board shall order that the pension granted to that person immediately cease, and he shall receive no further pension allowance or benefit under this article.
WY Stat § 15-5-312 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-312 - Application for Benefits; Statement Filed; Determination; Review.

15-5-312. Application for benefits; statement filed; determination; review.| If any policeman, his surviving wife, dependent children or dependent parents are entitled to any pension or benefits under this article, the policeman, or in the event of his death the dependent, shall apply for benefits or pension by filing a complete and concise statement of facts necessary to entitle the applicant to the benefits or pension. The application shall be filed with the board upon forms it provides. The board may investigate each application and determine whether benefits or pension should be granted. The board may also hear evidence as to the justice of the application, or require and receive affidavits as to the truth of the statements made therein. If the application is refused, the matter may be reviewed by the district court of the county in which the applicant resides pursuant to Rule 12 of the Wyoming Rules of Appellate Procedure.
WY Stat § 15-5-313 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-313 - Pension Application; When Payments Made and Benefits Suspended; Pension Protections.

15-5-313. Pension application; when payments made and benefits suspended; pension protections.| (a) Application for pension may be made prior to actual retirement upon statement of the intention to retire, but payment shall not begin until the applicant has actually retired and his name is stricken from the payrolls of the city or town. Payments under this article shall be made to the pensioner or to his beneficiaries on or before the fifth day of each month by voucher drawn against the policemen pension fund as provided in W.S. 15-5-305.  (b) No policeman or any of his survivors is entitled to any benefits of this article while the policeman or his survivors are receiving payments under the Worker's Compensation Act, but when payments under the Worker's Compensation Act terminate, the pensions of this article attach.  (c) The cash and securities while in the account created by this article are exempt from any state, county or municipal tax of this state, and are not subject to execution or attachment by trustee process or otherwise, in law or equity, or under any other process whatsoever, and are not assignable.
WY Stat § 15-5-314 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits|Section 15-5-314 - Penalties.

15-5-314. Penalties.| Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.
WY Stat § 15-5-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-401 - Citation.

15-5-401. Citation.| This article is known as the "Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981".
WY Stat § 15-5-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-403 - Eligibility for Service Pension.

15-5-403. Eligibility for service pension.| (a) A member is eligible to receive a service pension after he has terminated employment beginning with the month when he has four (4) years of credited service and has attained age fifty (50).  (b) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 75, § 2.  (c) An inactive member with a vested right to a service pension is eligible to receive such pension, computed in accordance with the provisions of this article in effect when he ceased to be an employee, beginning with the first month after his attainment of age fifty (50).  (d) For purposes of this section, credited service includes any period during which a member is receiving a disability pension as provided by this article.
WY Stat § 15-5-404 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-404 - Vesting Rights; Return to Service.

15-5-404. Vesting rights; return to service.| (a) A member who has four (4) years of credited service has a vested right to a service pension payable as provided in W.S. 15-5-403(c).  (b) If a member who has less than four (4) years of credited service ceases to be an employee, his service credits to the date of termination shall be cancelled unless:  (i) He again becomes an employee within four (4) months after his cessation of employment; or  (ii) He subsequently acquires four (4) years of credited service; and  (iii) If he has withdrawn his contributions he repays them with interest at a rate determined by the board and remains employed for not less than two (2) continuous years following the date or reemployment.  (c) For purposes of this section, credited service includes any period during which a member is receiving a disability pension under this article.  (d) The board shall adopt rules to allow service for any period of time, after commencement of participation under this article, which an employee spends in active military or other emergency service of the United States as required by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.
WY Stat § 15-5-405 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-405 - Eligibility for Disability Pension.

15-5-405. Eligibility for disability pension.| (a) A member, not otherwise eligible for a service pension, who suffers a disability is eligible for a disability pension.  (b) The determination of disability shall be made by the board in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board for this purpose. The board may require physician reports, medical examinations, psychological examinations, functional capacity evaluations, vocational examinations and other necessary reports and examinations in determining a disability under this subsection and in reviewing any disability under subsection (c) of this section. The cost of any functional capacity evaluation, vocational examination or other specialized test incurred pursuant to this section shall be paid from the account.  (c) The board may annually review the status of any member receiving a disability benefit under this article and may require any member receiving a disability benefit who is not eligible for normal retirement benefits under W.S. 15-5-403, to submit to any examination, test or evaluation by a physician or other appropriate professional designated or approved by the board, as necessary for conducting a review under this subsection. If a member refuses to submit to an examination, test or evaluation required under this subsection, benefit payments under this article shall be discontinued.
WY Stat § 15-5-406 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-406 - Survivor Benefits.

15-5-406. Survivor benefits.| The eligible surviving spouse or dependents of a member shall receive a survivor's pension if the member dies from any cause while in service.
WY Stat § 15-5-407 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-407 - Payment of Service or Early Retirement Pensions.

15-5-407. Payment of service or early retirement pensions.| Service or early retirement pensions shall be made to a retired member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he dies, unless an optional form has been elected in accordance with W.S. 15-5-413.
WY Stat § 15-5-408 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-408 - Payment of Disability Pension.

15-5-408. Payment of disability pension.| (a) Disability pension payments shall be made to a member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he ceases to be eligible or dies, unless an optional form has been elected in accordance with W.S. 15-5-413.  (b) If a member who is disabled recovers and is no longer totally or partially disabled, his disability pension shall be discontinued unless he has reached normal retirement age.
WY Stat § 15-5-409 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-409 - Amount of Service Pension.

15-5-409. Amount of service pension.| (a) The amount of the monthly service pension payable to a retired member is:  (i) Two and eight-tenths percent (2.8%) of his final average compensation multiplied by the number of years in his first twenty-five (25) years of his period of credited service.  (ii) Repealed By Laws 2000, Ch. 43, § 2.  (iii) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 112, § 2.  (b) For purposes of this section, credited service shall be measured in years taken to the nearest twelfth (1/12) of a year.  (c) Benefits shall not be payable under the pension system to the extent that they exceed the limitations imposed by section 415(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
WY Stat § 15-5-411 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-411 - Amount of Disability Pension.

15-5-411. Amount of disability pension.| (a) The disability pension shall be the greater of:  (i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average compensation; or  (ii) The service pension based on credited service accrued to the date of disability.
WY Stat § 15-5-412 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-412 - Amount of Survivor's Pension.

15-5-412. Amount of survivor's pension.| (a) The monthly survivor's pension payable to a member's eligible primary survivor or, if there is no eligible surviving spouse, then to his eligible surviving dependents, shall be equal to the greater of:  (i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average compensation; or  (ii) The service pension based on credited service accrued to the date of the member's death.  (b) If the primary survivor is the surviving spouse, that person shall have been married to the deceased member for at least one (1) year before the date of death, unless the death was the result of an accident.  (c) A survivor's pension shall begin with the month following the month in which the member dies. If the pension is payable to a surviving spouse who subsequently dies, it is then payable in the following month to the next primary survivor as defined in W.S. 15-5-402(a)(xiv) or ceases with that month in the absence of eligible dependents. If payable to a child who dies or fails to meet the conditions of eligibility in W.S. 15-5-402(a)(vi), the pension shall cease with that month.
WY Stat § 15-5-413 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-413 - Optional Forms of Benefits.

15-5-413. Optional forms of benefits.| (a) Any member eligible for a service or disability pension may elect to receive one (1) of the following optional forms, in lieu of the pension computed in W.S. 15-5-409 through 15-5-411, which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which he would otherwise be entitled:  (i) A reduced pension payable to the retired member and upon his death all of the reduced pension to be paid to his surviving spouse;  (ii) A reduced pension payable to the retired member and upon his death one-half (1/2) of the reduced pension to be paid to his surviving spouse;  (iii) A benefit which provides reduced monthly service retirement payments with provision for the continuance of payments for ten (10) years certain and life thereafter. If the retired member dies within ten (10) years after retirement, the remaining guaranteed payments shall be made to his designated beneficiary. This beneficiary may be changed at any time by written notification to the board as provided in subsection (b) of this section;  (iv) The largest possible benefit for life with no lump sum refund or benefit for anyone else upon the retired member's death;  (v) Any other modified monthly service retirement benefit, including any other modified joint and survivor monthly service retirement benefit, actuarially determined, which the board approves.  (b) An election of an optional benefit shall be in writing and filed with the board prior to the first benefit payment. After an election of any of the options provided in subsection (a) of this section has been made and the member has cashed his first pension check, or sixty (60) days from the date of issuance of the check have elapsed, the election is irrevocable unless a beneficiary dies prior to the occurrence of either such event, in which case the election is void and the member may, by written notice to the board, designate a new beneficiary and may select a different option. As provided in paragraph (a)(iii) of this section, upon written notice to the board, a member may change a beneficiary at any time within the ten (10) year period.  (c) The retirement benefits payable under optional forms available under this section shall be the actuarial equivalent of the normal benefit form under W.S. 15-5-409.
WY Stat § 15-5-414 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-414 - Death Benefit.

15-5-414. Death benefit.| Except as may otherwise be provided in any of the options under W.S. 15-5-413, upon the death of a member, inactive member, retired member or individual receiving a survivor's pension, there shall be paid to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries or, in the absence of a designated beneficiary, to the estate of the member, inactive member, retired member or survivor, a lump sum equal to the excess, if any, of the member's contributions paid from any source without interest over the aggregate of all pension payments made.
WY Stat § 15-5-415 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-415 - Withdrawal Benefit.

15-5-415. Withdrawal benefit.| (a) The accumulated contributions without interest of a member who is neither eligible for a service nor disability pension, nor has a vested right to a service pension, shall be refunded upon his withdrawal from service. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a former member who fails to apply for a withdrawal benefit within five (5) years after the date of withdrawal has waived his right to such benefit.  (b) If a member has a vested right to a service pension and withdraws from service and is not immediately eligible for a service or disability benefit, he may request a refund of his accumulated contributions without interest. Refund of such contributions extinguishes all rights to any benefits under this article.
WY Stat § 15-5-417 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-417 - Application of Benefits.

15-5-417. Application of benefits.| (a) A service pension, disability pension, survivor's pension, death benefit or withdrawal benefit shall be paid only upon the filing of an application in a form prescribed by the board. A monthly benefit shall not be payable for any month earlier than the second month preceding the date on which the application for such benefit is filed.  (b) The board may require any member, inactive member, retired member or eligible survivor to furnish any information as may be required for the determination of benefits under this article, if the determination of the pension is dependent upon that information. The board may withhold payment of any benefit, if the determination of the benefit is dependent upon the information and the member, inactive member, retired member or eligible survivor does not cooperate in the furnishing or procuring thereof.