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MS Code § 21-29-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-33. Service retirement allowance

 Upon retirement from service as provided in Section 21-29-31 a member shall receive a service retirement allowance for the remainder of his life, payable monthly, which allowance shall be a sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of his average monthly salary for the last four (4) years of service immediately prior to retirement; provided, however, that upon retirement from service in any municipality having a commission form of government on March 31, 1948, as provided in Section 21-29-5 and having a separate firemen and policemen retirement system and having a population not in excess of 48,000 according to the 1980 decennial census, which municipality has established a retirement system according to the provisions of this chapter, the service retirement allowance shall be based upon the average monthly salary for the last two (2) years of service immediately prior to retirement. Any member who has been in paid service for longer than twenty (20) years shall be entitled to receive additional payments for life in a sum equal to one and seven-tenths percent (1.7%) of the average monthly salary received by such member in the two-year period next preceding the filing of said application for each full year of service in excess of twenty (20) years' service. However, no retired payment to any member shall exceed sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the average monthly salary received by a member for the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the filing of said application. Periods of time in which a member may have been inactive on account of physical or mental disability shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the seven-year period hereinbefore mentioned, provided the employee continues to contribute his share to the program based on the average of his last two (2) months' compensation. This contribution shall continue during the total time the employee shall be inactive.
MS Code § 21-29-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-35. Duty disability retirement

 Upon application of a member in service of the employer, any member who has become totally and permanently incapacitated for duty as the natural and proximate result of the actual performance of duty of the employer, without wilful negligence on his part, may be retired by the board on a duty disability retirement allowance effective thirty days after the filing of an application in writing with the board. However, the physician or physicians selected by the board to examine the member shall certify that such member is presumably permanently and totally disabled from engaging in any gainful occupation for compensation or profit, that under the facts as to the cause of disability, as certified by the board, the member's disability could have with reasonable probability resulted, in such physician's opinion, and that such member should be retired.
MS Code § 21-29-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-37. Duty disability retirement allowance

 Upon retirement for duty disability, prior to becoming eligible for service retirement, as provided by Section 21-29-35, a member shall receive a duty disability retirement allowance, payable monthly, in a sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of his monthly salary from the employer at the time when the injury was sustained or the sickness occurred. This amount shall be paid to the member throughout such total disability for service. If the municipality pays a salary to such member in an amount equal to or in excess of the amount to be paid under this section, said member shall not be entitled to any payments under this section for the period of time during which such salary is paid.
MS Code § 21-29-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-39. Non-duty disability retirement

 Upon application of a member in service of the employer, any member who has had not less than five (5) years nor more than twenty (20) years' service with the employer and who has become totally and permanently incapacitated for duty, as a result of causes occurring other than in the performance of his duty, shall be retired by the board not less than thirty (30) nor more than ninety (90) days next following the date of filing such application, on a non-duty disability retirement allowance. Any such disability shall be certified to the board in the same manner as provided in Section 21-29-35.
MS Code § 21-29-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-41. Non-duty disability retirement allowance

 Upon retirement for nonduty disability as provided in Section 21-29-39, a member shall receive for each year's active service one-fortieth (1/40) of the average monthly salary or compensation received by such member from the employer in the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the injury or illness causing such disability.
MS Code § 21-29-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-43. Re-examination of disability retirants; revocation of allowance for gainful employment

  Once a year during the first five (5) years following retirement of a member on either duty or non-duty disability retirement allowance, and once in every three-year period thereafter, the board may require any disability beneficiary who has not completed twenty (20) years' service under the terms and provisions of this article to undergo a medical examination at the place of residence of the beneficiary or other place mutually agreed upon, to be made by a physician or physicians designated by the board. Should any disability beneficiary who has not completed twenty (20) years' service under the terms and provisions of this article refuse to submit to at least one (1) medical examination in any such year by a physician or physicians designated by the board, his allowance shall be discontinued until his withdrawal of such refusal, and should his refusal continue for one (1) year, all his rights in and to any and all retirement allowances under the retirement system shall be revoked by the board.   Should the examining physician or physicians report and certify to the board that a disability retirant has recovered and is able to engage in a gainful occupation, and should the board concur in such report, then the disability retirement allowance shall cease. In the case of a duty disability retirant only, upon again becoming an employee of the employer, he shall again become a member of the retirement system and the time during which he was a disability retirant shall be counted as time in the service of the employer for the purpose of service retirement.   Any disability retirant, who has not completed twenty (20) years' service under this article prior to retirement, who secures gainful employment over a period of three (3) consecutive months shall not thereafter receive any disability retirement allowance and it shall be the duty of the board to revoke its order directing the payment of a retirement allowance to such person.
MS Code § 21-29-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-47. Appeal

 Appeal may be taken from any decision of the board by any member of the system or other person entitled to the benefits under this article to the chancery court. However, no appeal may be taken from any finding or decision of the board after the expiration of one year from the date of the finding or decision.
MS Code § 21-29-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-49. Proration of payments

 Should the retirement reserve fund at any time be insufficient to make all payments properly payable therefrom, the amounts available in said fund shall be properly prorated until such time as amounts available therein may be sufficient to make all payments payable therefrom in full.
MS Code § 21-29-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-51. Rights to any benefit under this Article governed by Section 21-29-307

 The right of a person to an annuity, a retirement allowance or benefit, or to the return of contributions, or to any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this article, any retirement system and the moneys in any retirement system created by this article, shall be governed by the provisions of Section 21-29-307, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 21-29-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-53. Other retirement laws not affected

 The General Municipal Employees' Retirement Law and the provisions thereof shall in no way affect the provisions of Sections 21-29-101 through 21-29-151 of this chapter, establishing the firemen's and policemen's disability and relief fund, or the provisions of Article 5 of Chapter 11 of Title 25 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, concerning the retirement of school teachers.
MS Code § 21-29-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-55. Effect of change in form of government

 If, at any time, any municipality now covered by this article shall change its form of government, such change shall not affect the authorized retirement system, and this article shall be applicable to such municipality notwithstanding any future change in the form of government.
MS Code § 21-29-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-57. Vacation and sick leave; payment for unused time

 Nothing in this article shall limit or otherwise restrict the power of the governing body of any municipality that has a retirement system under this article to adopt such vacation and sick leave policies for its employees as it deems necessary. Any such municipality having a vacation and sick leave policy that provides for the payment of unused accumulated annual leave, personal leave or both to employees at the time of their retirement shall be authorized to make such payments to any employee who retires or has retired after September 30, 1991.
MS Code § 21-29-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-101. Disability and relief fund; exception and application; discontinuance of new memberships

 Except as otherwise provided in this section, in every city of the State of Mississippi having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more, according to the last federal census, or any subsequent federal census, and in which there is a paid police department and/or fire department, it shall be the duty of the governing authorities of said municipality to create and maintain a fund known as the "disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen," hereafter to be known as "said fund," which shall be maintained for the benefit of the persons hereinafter named, and shall be derived, raised and administered in the manner provided in this article, except no such fund known as the "disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen" shall be created by any municipality after March 1, 1976, unless approved by an amendment to this article by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi. Further, no new members may be joined by the fund after July 1, 1987, and all new employees of the police department and/or fire department of any municipality having such funds shall become members of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi after July 1, 1987.   Any reference in other sections of this article to members of the fire or police department shall be defined to include only the members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen of the municipality. The fund for each municipality shall be separately administered.   This section and Sections 21-29-103 through 21-29-151 shall not apply to any municipality wherein the qualified electors of such municipality shall have elected on or before August 6, 1940, pursuant to the then applicable law, not to have such municipality come within the provisions of Sections 21-29-101 to 21-29-151.
MS Code § 21-29-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-105. Administration of disability and relief funds; advisory boards

 The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi shall have operational and administrative control of the funds created herein.   In each municipality there shall be a board to serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System with respect to matters concerning the disability and relief fund. Such board shall consist of five (5) members as follows: two (2) shall be elected by the membership of the police department, two (2) shall be elected by the membership of the fire department; and the mayor or his designee shall be an ex officio member. Retired members of the police department and fire department may participate in elections to choose members of the board, and such retired members are also eligible to serve on the board. The term of elected members shall be for four (4) years, and any vacancy in the elected membership shall be filled in the same manner as the original membership was selected.
MS Code § 21-29-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-107. Powers and duties of Board of Trustees

 The board of trustees shall fix a time for regular meetings in its minutes, and it shall keep minutes of its meetings which shall be public records, subject to the statutes, rules and regulations governing the board of trustees.   The board shall have the power and duty to promptly hear and pass upon all applications of firemen and/or policemen or the beneficiaries of deceased firemen and of deceased policemen for participation in the benefits of said fund. The board may appoint hearing officers to further its duties hereunder. Said board may hear witnesses, administer oaths, find facts, and make decisions in all matters properly before said board, which decisions shall be final except upon appeals in the way hereafter set forth. Said board may order payments made according to the facts found and the provisions of this article, which payments shall be made as far as funds may be available from each separate municipal fund. Said board shall have the power, with the funds they have on hand, to invest and reinvest funds under the provisions of Section 25-11-121. Such funds may be commingled with other system funds for the most advantageous investments; however, each fund shall have separate accounting status. No warrant shall be drawn against said fund without the approval of a majority of said board.
MS Code § 21-29-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-113. Board of disability and relief appeals

 The commissioner of insurance, the attorney general, and the secretary of state of the State of Mississippi, shall be and are constituted a body to be known of the "board of disability and relief appeals," with full duty and power to hear, consider and determine all matters brought before it on appeal from decisions of the boards of disability and relief. Determinations by said appeal board shall be final.
MS Code § 21-29-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-115. Appealing decisions of board of disability and relief

 The governing authorities of the city, any applicant for benefits of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, or any two active members of said fire department or any two active members of said police department, being aggrieved at the decision or order of said board of disability and relief of said city, may file with said board of disability and relief, and with said board of disability and relief appeals duplicate copies of a petition for the rehearing of the matter in which said decision or order was made. Within thirty days thereafter said board of disability and relief of said city shall file with said appeal board, true copies of all papers and documents which were before it, all evidence of record before it and a statement of all evidence heard by it and not of record, all certified to be true and correct, whereupon said appeal board shall fix a time for hearing and shall give said disability and relief board of said city, and the petitioner or petitioners for appeal notice of said time for hearing. When the matter shall come on for hearing said appeal board shall have before it all papers, statements, matters and things certified to it by said disability and relief board, as well as such additional evidence and documents as it may hear and receive and upon all of the same shall hear, consider and decide said matter fully and finally according to this article, and the facts. Said appeal board may cause witnesses to be sworn by one of its members, or by any other authority competent to administer oaths. Said appeal board may meet for all purposes at any time in the State of Mississippi when all are present, or upon the call of two members thereof. Said appeal board shall certify its decision to the disability and relief board and the governing authorities of said city, and such decision or order shall be final and binding and the said fund shall be disbursed according thereto. Any suit or other action affecting said fund shall be disbursed according thereto. Any suit or other action affecting said fund shall be by or against said city as custodian of said fund and not against said board.
MS Code § 21-29-118 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-118. Tax proceeds transferred to Public Employees' Retirement System

 The Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi is hereby authorized to deduct two percent (2%) of all tax levied hereunder and paid into the "disability and relief fund" for firemen and policemen to be transferred to the expense fund of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi to defray the cost of administering this fund.
MS Code § 21-29-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-119. Discontinuance and reinstatement of tax; actuarial study

 When the amount of funds derived from the tax levied pursuant to Section 21-29-117 is sufficient to care for the requirements and necessities as determined by an actuarial study, the governing authorities of said municipality shall discontinue entirely or reduce the tax rate provided in Section 21-29-117 until such time as financial necessity creates a demand for the reassessment of said tax. It is understood, however, in this connection, that when and if the tax collections as herein provided are discontinued, that said tax shall be reassessed when necessity requires, without the necessity of an election. Each municipality with a disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall have prepared an actuarial study of the fund at least every four (4) years and report the findings to the legislature of the State of Mississippi. The first such study shall be filed with the legislature in January, 1980.
MS Code § 21-29-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-121. Disability and relief fund constitutes special fund; transfer of moneys to Public Employees' Retirement System

 The disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be a special trust fund and shall be disbursed only in the manner hereafter provided. Such fund shall be a part of the public funds of the Public Employees' Retirement System and shall be kept by the board as it is required to keep its other funds. Interest earned on said fund shall be credited to and become a part of said fund. All moneys on deposit in such funds on July 1, 1987, shall be paid over to the Board of Trustees of Public Employees' Retirement System on or before July 1, 1987.
MS Code § 21-29-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-123. Allowances upon disability and relief fund

 All allowances made upon the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be drawn against the fund by the board of trustees, and shall be issued only upon compliance with the rules and regulations of the board of trustees, or the board of disability and relief appeals.
MS Code § 21-29-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-125. Investment of part of disability and relief fund

 The authority is vested in the board of trustees to invest such part of said fund as may not be immediately required, in investments authorized under Section 25-11-121 with the right to change said investment from time to time, and with the right and duty to convert invested funds into current funds as the same may be needed for the purpose of this article.
MS Code § 21-29-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 3 - Firemen's and Policemen's Disability and Relief Funds|§ 21-29-127. Advancements from general fund to disability and relief fund

 The governing authority may immediately advance necessary moneys from the general fund to said fund to enable payments to all qualified beneficiaries to be brought into a current status. Any moneys necessarily advanced shall be paid back to the general fund from the surplus of said fund as it is allocated.