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NH Rev Stat § 102:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:21 - Resignation, Dismissal, Reinstatement and Withdrawal.

    102:21 Resignation, Dismissal, Reinstatement and Withdrawal. –||Any permanent fireman accepting the provisions hereof, who shall retire, withdraw or be dismissed from service, and the named beneficiary of any such permanent fireman who may die while in active service from causes not due to fire duty as described in RSA 102:17 and provided no benefit is payable under RSA 102:16, shall be entitled to receive from the board all payments made thereto by him with interest at such rate as the board may prescribe. The named beneficiary of any retired permanent fireman who may die while in retirement, and whose retirement benefits to the time of death should be less than his total payments, plus interest, to the board, shall be entitled to receive from the board an amount which shall be the difference, if such exists, between such fireman's total payments, plus interest, to the board and his total benefits received while on retirement to the time of his death. Upon retirement or dismissal from service a permanent fireman shall no longer be obligated to pay assessments to the fund. Any permanent fireman resigned or dismissed from service as aforesaid may, if he thereafter reenters service as a permanent fireman, be reinstated to the benefits hereof. Upon reinstatement to the benefits hereof his rate of assessment shall be established by the board as provided under RSA 102:9 and his term of creditable service shall begin as of the nearest date of his reinstatement to the benefits hereof, excepting that a reinstated member may receive credit for prior service if he leaves his assessments in the fund and provided he is reinstated within 36 months after his resignation or dismissal. Prior service credit shall be only for his period of actual active service. His rate of assessment upon reinstatement shall be as provided under RSA 102:9. Notice of dismissal or death, not due to fire duty as described in RSA 102:17, of a permanent fireman who has accepted the provisions of this chapter, shall be sent to the board by the chief clerk or other responsible officer of city, town or precinct by whom said fireman was employed.|||Source. 1939, 154:14. 1941, 192:15. RL 220:18. 1945, 202:6. 1953, 28:1. RSA 102:21. 1970, 12:1, eff. June 27, 1970.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:22 - Beneficiary and Guardian.

    102:22 Beneficiary and Guardian. –||Any member (active or retired) may from time to time designate a new beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive payments due under RSA 102:21. Every such designation of a new beneficiary must be made in writing to the secretary of the retirement board, and such change shall not take effect until received by the retirement board. After receipt of such change, the change shall relate back to and take effect as of the date thereof, whether or not the member be living at the time of its receipt by the retirement board, but without prejudice to the board on account of any payments made by it before receipt of such written change. If the beneficiary shall die before the member, the interest of such beneficiary shall vest in the estate of the member, unless otherwise provided in the written directions of the member to the board. If no beneficiary be named by a member, any payments due under RSA 102:21 shall vest in the estate of such member. Payments which are due a beneficiary under legal disabilities may be made to the legal guardian or conservator of a minor or incompetent beneficiary or to the parents or surviving parent as natural guardian of a minor for whom no legal guardian has been appointed; and such payments shall constitute a final settlement of all claims on account thereof and shall bar recovery thereof by any other person or persons.|||Source. 1947, 54:6, eff. Mar. 27, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:23 - Exemption of Contributions and Benefits; Assignability.

    102:23 Exemption of Contributions and Benefits;  Assignability. –||The payments made by permanent firemen to the retirement board and the benefits or compensation received hereunder shall be exempt from taxation, attachment, and the operation of laws relating to insolvency or bankruptcy. No assignment of compensation due under this chapter shall be valid unless approved by the board.|||Source. 1939, 154:15. 1941, 192:16. RL 220:19. 1945, 202:7, eff. May 18, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:23-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:23-a - Authorized Deductions.

    102:23-a Authorized Deductions. –||Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter any member of the firemen's retirement system who makes application for benefits under this chapter and who was at the time a member of an insurance or hospitalization group plan for which payroll deductions are authorized, may request that the monthly premium for such service be deducted from the monthly retirement benefit which he is to receive, and in such case said deduction shall be made from the sums due the member. Provided, further, that deductions from retirement benefits shall be made, if requested by retired firemen receiving such benefits who transfer an existing direct pay membership or subscribe as a new member for such plan, if permitted by regulations of such plan.|||Source. 1965, 244:1, eff. Aug. 31, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:24 - Forfeiture of Right to Reinstatement.

    102:24 Forfeiture of Right to Reinstatement. –||On and after April 1, 1947, any permanent fireman who has withdrawn his accumulated contributions from the retirement fund while remaining in the status of a permanent fireman and not on account of retirement, withdrawal or dismissal from service as provided in RSA 102:21, shall thereby forfeit all right to future reinstatement to the benefits of this chapter. On and after said date no permanent fireman shall be entitled to withdraw his accumulated contributions to the fund while in service as a fireman. No benefit under this retirement system other than a return of contributions as provided in RSA 102:21 shall become payable to or on account of any member unless said member was in active service as an employee in the fire department at the time of becoming eligible for benefits hereunder.|||Source. 1947, 54:7, eff. Mar. 27, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:24-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:24-a - Repealed by 1977, 528:13, eff. July 1, 1977.

    102:24-a Repealed by 1977, 528:13, eff. July 1, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 102:24-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:24-b - Repealed by 1977, 528:14, eff. July 1, 1977.

    102:24-b Repealed by 1977, 528:14, eff. July 1, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 102:24-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:24-c - Repealed by 1977, 528:15, eff. July 1, 1977.

    102:24-c Repealed by 1977, 528:15, eff. July 1, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 102:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:25 - Transfer Authorized.

    102:25 Transfer Authorized. –||Any permanent fireman who is a member of the state employees' retirement system on July 1, 1957, and who is eligible for membership in the firemen's retirement system, hereinbefore set forth, may elect within 3 months after said date to transfer his membership from the state employees' retirement system to the firemen's retirement system in accordance with the provisions of RSA 100:21 to 27, relative to transfers of membership between state retirement systems, anything in said subdivision to the contrary notwithstanding.|||Source. 1957, 155:2, eff. July 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:26 - Transfer of Reserves.

    102:26 Transfer of Reserves. –||Upon transfer of membership of a permanent fireman from the state employees' retirement system to the firemen's retirement system under the provisions of this subdivision, in addition to the transfer of his accumulated contributions under the provisions of RSA 100:23, the reserve for benefits accrued under the state employees' retirement system provided by the employer's contributions on account of his service rendered prior to the date of such transfer, actuarially computed, shall be transferred from the state employees' retirement system to the firemen's retirement system.|||Source. 1957, 155:1, eff. July 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 102:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 102 - Firemen's Retirement System|Section 102:27 - Benefits.

    102:27 Benefits. –||Any provision of RSA 100:24 notwithstanding any permanent fireman whose membership has been transferred from the state employees' retirement system to the firemen's retirement system in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision shall thereafter be eligible for such benefits as are provided under this chapter, as hereinabove amended, as if he had accepted the provisions of said chapter at the time of becoming a member of the state employees' retirement system.|||Source. 1957, 155:1, eff. July 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:1 - Declaration of Policy.

    103:1 Declaration of Policy. –||The public welfare requires that a system of retirement benefits shall be established to compensate the permanent policemen of this state for their future public services rendered in the performance of their duties of protecting life and property within this state; and that suitable compensation shall be provided for the policemen of this state or their dependents whenever such policemen shall be permanently disabled or killed in line of duty.|||Source. 1941, 166:1. RL 221:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:2 - Definition.

    103:2 Definition. –||The words "permanent policeman" as used herein shall mean any person, male or female, who is a chief, deputy chief, marshal, deputy marshal, colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, officer of other rank, inspector, chief clerk, clerk, radio dispatcher, radio engineer or operator, patrolman, trooper, detective, investigator, mechanic, electrician, laboratory worker or other technical expert regularly employed on full time duty by a police department or police force of the state, or of any city, town, village or precinct in the state.|||Source. 1941, 166:2. RL 221:2. RSA 103:2. 1963, 238:1, eff. July 1, 1963.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:3 - Board of Trustees.

    103:3 Board of Trustees. –||The administration of the retirement system established by this chapter is hereby vested in the board of trustees established by RSA 100-A:14 and it shall have with respect to this system all the rights, powers, duties, restrictions, and immunities it has with respect to the retirement system established by RSA 100-A and the word "board" or phrase "retirement board" when used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall mean said board of trustees.|||Source. 1941, 166:3. RL 221:3. RSA 103:3. 1967, 134:14, eff. July 1, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:4 - Membership.

    103:4 Membership. –||Any permanent policeman in this state who prior to July 1, 1967 accepted the provisions of this chapter shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of this system thereafter, unless on or before November 30, 1967 or May 1, 1968 he files with the board of trustees, on a form prescribed by the board, a notice of his election to become a member as of January 1, 1968 or July 1, 1968 of the New Hampshire Retirement System as provided by RSA 100-A:3, II, in which event his entitlement to the benefits provided under this system shall cease as of December 31, 1967 or June 30, 1968. Any permanent policeman who prior to July 1, 1967 did not accept the provisions of this chapter or any person who becomes a permanent policeman on or after that date shall be ineligible to make application to accept the provisions of this chapter and shall not be entitled to the benefits hereof.|||Source. 1941, 166:4. RL 221:4. 1945, 145:1. RSA 103:4. 1957, 50:1. 1967, 134:15, eff. July 1, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:5 - Duties of Retirement Board.

    103:5 Duties of Retirement Board. –||The board shall supervise the collection of assessments on all permanent policemen accepting the provisions hereof, and the payment of retirement benefits and other compensation under this chapter. To carry out the purposes hereof the board may make all manner of reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions hereof. The board shall employ a secretary at a salary to be approved by it, whose duty it shall be to keep a record of all its proceedings and to perform such administrative duties as it may direct. The expenses of administration of this chapter shall be paid out of the retirement fund hereinafter provided.|||Source. 1941, 166:5. RL 221:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:6 - Individual Accounts.

    103:6 Individual Accounts. –||The board shall establish and keep a record of the individual account of each permanent policeman accepting the provisions hereof. Each individual account shall state the policeman's age, annual salary, length of service, date of acceptance of chapter, date of retirement, payments to the retirement fund, and the benefits or compensation received by such policeman.|||Source. 1941, 166:6. RL 221:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:7 - Assessment on Salaries.

    103:7 Assessment on Salaries. –||The retirement and other compensation provided for by this chapter shall be paid out of a retirement fund, which shall consist of all moneys collected from assessments or appropriations or gifts provided for herein. At the beginning of each fiscal year the board shall fix the applicable rate of assessment upon the annual salaries of all permanent policemen who accept the provisions hereof. Unless and until changed by the board, such rate of assessment shall be 6-85/100 percent of each policeman's annual salary, except, that in the case of any policeman employed by a city having a population of more than 34,000 inhabitants and until the governing body of said city shall elect to discontinue its present policy of paying a supplementary retirement benefit to any permanent policeman employed by the city who may thereafter be granted a retirement benefit under the provisions of the New Hampshire Policemen's Retirement System, no assessment shall be made upon that part of his annual salary in excess of $2,400. The board shall, in such manner as it may prescribe, give notice of the rate and amount of assessment of each permanent policeman's salary to the treasurer or other disbursing officer of the state, city, town, village or precinct where such permanent policeman is employed. All assessments under this section shall be payable in equal monthly installments on the last business day of each calendar month. It shall be the duty of the treasurer or other disbursing officer of the state, city, town, village or precinct, employing permanent policemen, who accept the provisions hereof, to withhold from the monthly salary of each permanent policeman and to pay the board an amount equal to the monthly assessment against such permanent policeman's salary, as before provided. All permanent policemen who shall accept the provisions hereof by such acceptance agree that the treasurer or other disbursing officer of the state, city, town, village or precinct which employs them shall have the power to withhold from their monthly salaries the amounts aforesaid. Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, any policeman who is over 35 years of age at the time he accepts the provisions of this chapter shall be assessed by the board on the part of his annual salary which would have been assessable had he been under age 35 on the date of such acceptance, at the increased rate determined in accordance with the following table:||Age at Accepting |the Provisions Percentage Rate|of the Chapter of Assessment| 36 6.90%| 37 6.95| 38 7.00| 39 7.05| 40 7.10| 41 7.16| 42 7.22| 43 7.28| 44 7.34| 45 7.41| 46 7.47| 47 7.53| 48 7.59| 49 7.65| 50 7.72| 51 7.78| 52 7.85| 53 7.92| 54 7.99| 55 8.06| 56 8.13| 57 8.20| 58 8.28| 59 and over 8.36| | ||Source. 1941, 166:7. RL 221:7. 1953, 112:1. RSA 103:7. 1957, 50:2; 189:1. 1961, 191:1. 1963, 238:2, eff. July 1, 1963.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:8 - Additional Retirement Allowance.

    103:8 Additional Retirement Allowance. –||In addition to the assessment made on the assessable part of any policeman's annual salary as hereinbefore provided, and subject to the approval of the board and to such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe with respect thereto, any permanent policeman may provide for himself an additional retirement allowance by making special deposits in his individual account. Such special deposits together with interest credited thereon as determined by the board shall be paid to him upon resignation or dismissal from service, or to his estate or his designated beneficiary upon his death before retirement. Upon his retirement for any cause, his accumulated special deposits shall be returnable to him in cash, or, at his election, part or all of such accumulated special deposits may be taken as a monthly annuity of equivalent actuarial value; provided such annuity together with his regular monthly retirement allowance shall not exceed a sum equal to 1/2 his average monthly salary during the 12-month period preceding his retirement.|||Source. 1951, 63:1. 1953, 112:2, eff. Apr. 22, 1953.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:9 - Contributions.

    103:9 Contributions. –||I. At the beginning of each year commencing on the first day of July the board of trustees shall certify to each employer other than the state the percentage rates of contribution due the system from each such employer, and shall assess upon each such employer such percentages of the earnable compensation of members in its employ, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer or other disbursing officer of each such employer to pay to the board of trustees such portion of the annual amount so assessed at such times and in such manner as the board of trustees may prescribe. Each such employer is hereby authorized to appropriate the sums necessary for the payment of such assessments.||II. The contributions of each employer for benefits under the retirement system on account of police members shall consist of a percentage of the earnable compensation of its members to be known as the "normal contribution"; and an additional amount to be known as the "accrued liability contribution"; provided that any employer, other than the state, shall pay 65 percent of such total contributions, and 35 percent thereof shall be paid by the state; and provided further that in case of police members employed by the state, the state shall pay both normal and accrued liability contributions.|||Source. 1941, 166:8. RL 221:8. RSA 103:9. 1977, 528:5, eff. July 1, 1978.|
NH Rev Stat § 103:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VI - Public Officers and Employees|Title 103 - Policemen's Retirement System|Section 103:10 - Normal Contribution Rate.

    103:10 Normal Contribution Rate. –||The normal contribution rate shall be determined as the uniform and constant percentage of the annual salary of the average new permanent policeman entering the system which, if contributed on the basis of his salary throughout his entire period of active service would be sufficient, together with the assessment provided in RSA 103:7, to provide for the payment of any benefit payable on his account under this chapter. The accrued liability contribution shall be determined by the actuary as the amount necessary to liquidate the unfunded accrued liability as of June 30, 1968 over a period of 20 years from that date. The unfunded accrued liability is the amount of the total liabilities of the system which is not dischargeable by the funds in hand, the assessment and the normal contribution. After the determination of the unfunded accrued liability as of June 30, 1968, the normal contribution shall be determined after each actuarial valuation as the rate percent of the annual salary of each participating permanent policeman obtained by deducting from the total liabilities of the system the amount of the funds in hand, the present value of future assessments and the then current unfunded accrued liability and dividing the remainder by one percent of the present value of the future salaries of all permanent policemen who are then participating in the system.|||Source. 1941, 166:9. RL 221:9. RSA 103:10. 1961, 191:2. 1963, 238:3. 1977, 528:6, eff. July 1, 1978.|