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2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 352F — University Hospital Employee Retirement › Section 352F.05 — Authorization For Additional Allowable Service For Certain Early Retirement Purposes.

352F.05 AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL ALLOWABLE SERVICE FOR CERTAIN EARLY RETIREMENT PURPOSES.
For purpose of determining eligibility for early retirement benefits provided under Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 352.116, subdivision 1, paragraphs (a) and (b), and notwithstanding any provision of chapter 352 to the contrary, the years of allowable service for a terminated hospital employee who transfers to employment at Fairview, University of Minnesota Physicians, or University Affiliated Family Physicians on the effective date and does not apply for a refund of contributions under Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 352.22, subdivision 2, or any similar provision in future Minnesota Statutes, includes service with Fairview, University of Minnesota Physicians, or University Affiliated Family Physicians following the effective date. Fairview, University of Minnesota Physicians, or University Affiliated Family Physicians shall provide any reports that the executive director of the Minnesota State Retirement System may reasonably request to permit calculation of benefits.
To be eligible for early retirement benefits under this section, the individual must separate from service with Fairview, University of Minnesota Physicians, or University Affiliated Family Physicians. The terminated eligible individual, or an individual authorized to act on behalf of that individual, may apply for an annuity following application procedures under section 352.115, subdivision 7.
History:
1996 c 460 art 1 s 5; 1997 c 241 art 7 s 8
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 352F — University Hospital Employee Retirement › Section 352F.051 — Continuation Of Disability Coverage.

352F.051 CONTINUATION OF DISABILITY COVERAGE.
Subdivision 1.
Eligibility.
A terminated hospital employee who is totally and permanently disabled under section 352.01, subdivision 17, and who had a medically documented preexisting condition of the disability before January 1, 1997, may apply under Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 352.113, subdivision 1, for a disability benefit.
Subd. 2.
Calculation of benefits.
A person qualifying under subdivision 1 is entitled to receive a disability benefit calculated under Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 352.113, subdivision 3. The disability benefit must be augmented under section 352.72, subdivision 2, from January 1, 1997, to the date on which the disability benefit begins to accrue.
Subd. 3.
Applicability of general law.
Except as otherwise provided, section 352.113 applies to a person who qualifies for disability under subdivision 1.
History:
1Sp2001 c 10 art 9 s 1
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 352F — University Hospital Employee Retirement › Section 352F.052 — Application Of Surviving Spouse, Dependent Child Provision.

352F.052 APPLICATION OF SURVIVING SPOUSE, DEPENDENT CHILD PROVISION.
Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, subdivisions within section 352.12 of the edition of Minnesota Statutes published in the year before the year in which a privatization occurred, applicable to the surviving spouse or dependent children of a former member, apply to the survivors of a terminated hospital employee of Fairview, University of Minnesota Physicians, or University Affiliated Family Physicians.
History:
2004 c 267 art 9 s 15
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 352F — University Hospital Employee Retirement › Section 352F.07 — Effect On Refund.

352F.07 EFFECT ON REFUND.
Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 352 to the contrary, terminated hospital employees may receive a refund of employee accumulated contributions plus interest in accordance with section 352.22, subdivision 2, at any time after the transfer of employment to Fairview, University of Minnesota Physicians, or University Affiliated Family Physicians. If a terminated hospital employee has received a refund from a pension plan enumerated in section 356.30, subdivision 3, the person may not repay that refund unless the person again becomes a member of one of those enumerated plans and complies with section 356.30, subdivision 2.
History:
1996 c 460 art 1 s 7; 1997 c 241 art 7 s 10; 2010 c 359 art 1 s 22
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 352F — University Hospital Employee Retirement › Section 352F.08 — Counseling Services.

352F.08 COUNSELING SERVICES.
The University of Minnesota hospital and clinics or the Academic Health Center, whichever is applicable and the Minnesota State Retirement System shall provide terminated hospital employees with counseling on their benefits available under the general state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota State Retirement System.
History:
1996 c 460 art 1 s 8; 1997 c 241 art 7 s 11
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.012 — University Of Minnesota Employees; Furlough Service And Salary Credit.

353.012 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EMPLOYEES; FURLOUGH SERVICE AND SALARY CREDIT.
A furloughed employee of the University of Minnesota who is a member of the public employees police and fire plan may obtain allowable service and salary credit for the furlough period. The allowable service and salary credit authorization is a leave of absence authorization for purposes of section 353.0162.
History:
2010 c 359 art 15 s 2; 2018 c 211 art 19 s 2
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.033 — Psychological Condition Treatment Account.

353.033 PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION TREATMENT ACCOUNT.
Subdivision 1.
Account created and money appropriated.
The PERA psychological condition treatment account is created in the special revenue fund. Money in the account is appropriated to the executive director of the Public Employees Retirement Association for administration of the psychological condition treatment under section 353.032.
Subd. 2.
Account to defray administrative costs.
The executive director of the Public Employees Retirement Association must pay the costs of administering the PERA psychological condition treatment under section 353.032 using the money in the psychological condition treatment account under subdivision 1 until the money is expended.
Subd. 3.
Commissioner of public safety to pay costs when account is depleted.
When the PERA psychological condition treatment account is depleted, the executive director of the Public Employees Retirement Association may invoice the commissioner of public safety for the costs of administering the psychological condition treatment under section 353.032. The commissioner must pay invoices submitted by the executive director of the Public Employees Retirement Association from the public safety officer's benefit account under section 299A.42 within 30 days of receipt.
History:
2023 c 48 s 20
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.05 — Custodian Of Funds.

353.05 CUSTODIAN OF FUNDS.
The commissioner of management and budget shall be ex officio treasurer of the retirement funds of the association and the general bond of the commissioner of management and budget to the state must be so conditioned as to cover all liability for acts as treasurer of these funds. All money of the association received by the commissioner of management and budget must be set aside in the state treasury to the credit of the proper fund or account. The commissioner of management and budget shall transmit monthly to the executive director a detailed statement of all amounts so received and credited to the funds. Payments out of the funds may only be made as payments issued by the commissioner of management and budget, upon abstracts signed by the executive director; provided that abstracts for investment may be signed by the executive director of the State Board of Investment.
History:
(254-27) 1931 c 307 s 5; 1959 c 650 s 58; 1971 c 106 s 12; 1974 c 229 s 10; 1975 c 102 s 6; 1986 c 444; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109; 2010 c 359 art 11 s 5; 2015 c 68 art 14 s 5; 1Sp2019 c 10 art 3 s 34
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.06 — State Board Of Investment To Invest Funds.

353.06 STATE BOARD OF INVESTMENT TO INVEST FUNDS.
The executive director shall from time to time certify to the State Board of Investment for investment such portions of the funds of the association as in the director's judgment may not be required for immediate use. The State Board of Investment shall thereupon invest and reinvest the sum so certified, or transferred, in such securities as are duly authorized as legal investments under section 11A.24 and has authority to sell, convey, and exchange such securities and invest and reinvest the securities when it deems it desirable to do so and shall sell securities upon request of the executive director when such funds are needed for its purposes. All of the provisions regarding accounting procedures and restrictions and conditions for the purchase and sale of securities under chapter 11A must apply to the accounting, purchase and sale of securities for the funds of the Public Employees Retirement Association.
History:
(254-28) 1931 c 307 s 6; 1959 c 650 s 58; 1961 c 380 s 5; 1965 c 305 s 5; 1973 c 753 s 21; 1975 c 102 s 6; 1980 c 607 art 14 s 45 subd 2; s 46; 2009 c 169 art 1 s 31; 2010 c 359 art 11 s 6; 2015 c 68 art 14 s 6
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.08 — Legal Adviser, Attorney General; Venue.

353.08 LEGAL ADVISER, ATTORNEY GENERAL; VENUE.
The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the board of trustees. The board may sue or be sued in the name of the board of trustees of the Public Employees Retirement Association and, in all actions brought by it or against it, the board shall be represented by the attorney general. The venue of all actions against and by the Public Employees Retirement Association shall be Ramsey County.
History:
(254-30) 1931 c 307 s 8; 1933 c 374 s 1; 1959 c 650 s 58; 1973 c 753 s 22; 1975 c 102 s 9
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.14 — Benefits From Other Funds.

353.14 BENEFITS FROM OTHER FUNDS.
No annuity or benefit provided by this chapter may be affected, diminished, or impaired by any pension, benefit, or annuity which any member or survivor is entitled to receive from a tax-supported public retirement plan or system authorized by any other law based on service that is different service than the service for which the member or survivor is entitled to receive benefit or annuity from a retirement plan administered by the Public Employees Retirement Association.
History:
1963 c 641 s 1; 1973 c 753 s 23; 1986 c 444; 1Sp2005 c 8 art 10 s 44
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.15 — Nonassignability And Exemption From Judicial Process.

353.15 NONASSIGNABILITY AND EXEMPTION FROM JUDICIAL PROCESS.
Subdivision 1.
Exemption.
The provisions of section 356.401 apply to the general employees retirement plan, to the public employees police and fire retirement plan, and to the local government correctional service retirement plan.
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 1Sp2005 c 8 art 10 s 81]
Subd. 3.
Payment to public bodies.
If, in the judgment of the executive director, conditions so warrant, payment of an annuity, a retirement benefit, or a refund may be made to a public body in behalf of an annuitant, disabilitant, or survivor upon such terms as the executive director may prescribe.
History:
(254-40) 1931 c 307 s 18; 1955 c 815 s 9; 1971 c 789 s 5; 1973 c 753 s 24; 1975 c 102 s 6,10; 1976 c 329 s 19; 1978 c 772 s 62; 1979 c 303 art 3 s 29; 1981 c 180 s 5; 1984 c 547 s 6; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 157 s 5; 1990 c 570 art 11 s 4; 1997 c 203 art 6 s 92; 2000 c 461 art 3 s 13; 2003 c 127 art 3 s 19; 1Sp2005 c 8 art 10 s 45,46
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.16 — Audit Of Books And Accounts; Insurance Laws Not Applicable.

353.16 AUDIT OF BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS; INSURANCE LAWS NOT APPLICABLE.
None of the laws of this state regulating insurance or insurance companies shall apply to the retirement association or any of its funds. The books and accounts of the association and the retirement fund shall be examined and audited annually, if funds and personnel permit, by the legislative auditor of the state and a full and detailed report thereof made to the board of trustees. The cost of any examination shall be paid by the retirement association in accordance with the provisions of section 16A.127, subdivision 7, and for the purposes of this section the public employees retirement association shall be considered a state agency as referred to in section 16A.127, subdivision 7.
History:
(254-41) 1931 c 307 s 19; 1933 c 374 s 1; 1959 c 645 s 1; 1959 c 650 s 58; 1971 c 106 s 15; 1974 c 229 s 11; 1979 c 50 s 45; 1981 c 224 s 80
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.18 — Rules.

353.18 RULES.
All matters and administrative details not specifically provided for in this chapter shall be governed by rules issued and promulgated by the board of trustees. The final power to determine the status of any individual in the employ of any governmental subdivision, for the purposes of this chapter, is hereby vested in the board, and such determination shall not be disturbed unless found to be arbitrary and capricious.
History:
(254-44) 1931 c 307 s 22; 1941 c 285 s 9; 1959 c 650 s 58; 1973 c 753 s 25; 1985 c 248 s 70
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.19 — Penalties For False Information.

353.19 PENALTIES FOR FALSE INFORMATION.
Any person who shall give any false information to the board of trustees or any officer or agent of the retirement association, or any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to perform or discharge any duty prescribed by this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
History:
(254-45) 1931 c 307 s 23; 1959 c 650 s 58; 1973 c 753 s 26
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.335 — Disabilitant Earnings Reports.

353.335 DISABILITANT EARNINGS REPORTS.
Subdivision 1.
Reemployment earnings reporting required.
Unless waived by the executive director, a disability benefit recipient must report all earnings from reemployment and from income from workers' compensation to the association annually by May 15 in a format prescribed by the executive director. If the form is not submitted by May 15, benefits must be suspended effective June 1. If, upon receipt of the form, the executive director determines that the disability benefit recipient is eligible for continued payment, benefits must be reinstated retroactive to June 1. The executive director may waive the requirements in this section if the medical evidence supports that the disability benefit recipient will not have earnings from reemployment.
Subd. 2.
Workers' compensation reporting not required.
Notwithstanding subdivision 1, a recipient of disability benefits from the police and fire plan must not be required to report to the association any workers' compensation received by the recipient.
History:
2006 c 271 art 3 s 27; 2021 c 22 art 3 s 9; 2023 c 48 s 21
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.35 — Consequences Of Refund; Repayment, Rights Restored.

353.35 CONSEQUENCES OF REFUND; REPAYMENT, RIGHTS RESTORED.
Subdivision 1.
Refund rights.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), when any former member accepts a refund, all existing service credits and all rights and benefits to which the person was entitled prior to the acceptance of the refund terminate.
(b) A refund under section 353.651, subdivision 3, paragraph (c), does not result in a forfeiture of salary credit for the allowable service credit covered by the refund.
(c) If a person forfeits service credits, rights, and benefits under paragraph (a), the person's service credits, rights, and benefits shall be restored if the person returns to employment covered by the association for at least six months of allowable service and repays all amounts previously received under section 353.34, subdivision 2, plus interest at the applicable rate or rates specified in section 356.59, subdivision 3, compounded annually, from the date each amount was received to the date the amount is repaid. The repayment must be made within six months of the last day of public service employment. A person may have service credits, rights, and benefits restored under this paragraph only one time.
Subd. 2.
Refund repayment.
A person who receives a refund of accumulated employee deductions, plus interest, may repay the total amount of the refund including the interest, within 30 days of the date the refund was issued, to retain allowable service.
History:
1957 c 935 s 15; 1959 c 650 s 38; 1963 c 641 s 30; 1971 c 106 s 32; 1973 c 753 s 60; 1976 c 329 s 27; 1979 c 216 s 16; 1982 c 404 s 6; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 319 art 3 s 18; 1990 c 570 art 11 s 7; 1992 c 598 art 2 s 6; 1993 c 307 art 4 s 29; 2013 c 111 art 11 s 5; 2015 c 68 art 2 s 13; 2018 c 211 art 6 s 24; art 10 s 11
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.46 — Savings Clauses.

353.46 SAVINGS CLAUSES.
Subdivision 1.
[Repealed, 1981 c 180 s 18]
Subd. 1a.
[Repealed, 2010 c 359 art 5 s 28]
Subd. 2.
Rights of deferred annuitant.
(a) The entitlement of a deferred annuitant or other former member of the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, the public employees police and fire retirement plan, or the local government correctional employees retirement plan to receive an annuity under the law in effect at the time the person terminated public service is preserved.
(b) The entitlement of a deferred annuitant or former member of the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund, upon merger with the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, continues under the provisions of Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 422A.16.
Subd. 3.
[Repealed, 1977 c 429 s 65]
Subd. 4.
[Repealed, 1Sp2005 c 8 art 10 s 81]
Subd. 5.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 6.
Computation of benefits for certain coordinated members.
Any coordinated member of the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association who, before July 1, 1979, was a member of the former coordinated program of the former Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund and who, before July 1, 1978, was a member of the basic program of the Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund is entitled to receive a retirement annuity when otherwise qualified, the calculation of which must utilize the formula accrual rates specified in Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 422A.15, subdivision 1, for that portion of credited service which was rendered before July 1, 1978, and the formula accrual rates specified in section 353.29, subdivision 3, for the remainder of credited service, both applied to the average salary as specified in section 353.01, subdivision 17a. The formula accrual rates to be used in calculating the retirement annuity must recognize the service after July 1, 1978, as a member of the former coordinated program of the former Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund and after July 1, 1979, as a member of the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association as a continuation of service rendered before July 1, 1978. The annuity amount attributable to service as a member of the basic program of the former Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund and the annuity amount attributable to all other service is payable from the general employees retirement fund of the Public Employees Retirement Association.
History:
1957 c 935 s 26; 1959 c 650 s 27; Ex1961 c 87 s 2; 1965 c 814 s 1,3; 1971 c 106 s 36; 1973 c 753 s 65-68; 1975 c 102 s 19; 1977 c 4 29 s 33; 1981 c 224 s 93,94; 1981 c 298 s 11; 1990 c 570 art 11 s 8; 1991 c 341 s 21; 2010 c 359 art 11 s 15,16; 2012 c 187 art 1 s 61; 2015 c 68 art 13 s 20; art 14 s 12,13
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.50 — Merf Consolidation Account; Establishment And Operation.

353.50 MERF CONSOLIDATION ACCOUNT; ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION.
Subdivision 1.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 3.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 4.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 5.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 6.
Benefits for former MERF division members.
(a)
Retired, disabled, deferred, and inactive member benefits.
The annuities and benefits of, or attributable to, retired, disabled, deferred, or inactive members of the former MERF division, as calculated under Minnesota Statutes 2008, sections 422A.11; 422A.12; 422A.13; 422A.14; 422A.15; 422A.151; 422A.155; 422A.156; 422A.16; 422A.17; 422A.18; 422A.19; 422A.20; and 422A.23, continue in force and are payable from the general employees retirement plan.
(b)
Benefits; benefit eligibility for active members.
Persons who were active members covered by the former MERF division on December 31, 2014, upon satisfying eligibility requirements stated in the applicable sections of Minnesota Statutes 2008 specified in paragraph (a), are entitled to annuities or benefits specified in those sections. Eligibility for a formula retirement annuity includes the requirement in Minnesota Statutes 2008, sections 422A.13 and 422A.16, that the terminating member has attained the normal retirement age, which is age 60 if the person has at least ten years of service credit, or any age if the person has 30 or more years of service credit.
(c)
Postretirement adjustments.
After December 31, 2014, annuities and benefits for former members of the former MERF division are eligible for annual automatic postretirement adjustments solely under the applicable portions of section 356.415.
Subd. 7.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 8.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 9.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
Subd. 10.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 14 s 30]
History:
2010 c 359 art 11 s 17; 2012 c 286 art 6 s 3; 2013 c 111 art 3 s 8,9; 2015 c 68 art 14 s 14
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.505 — State Contributions; Former Merf Division.

353.505 STATE CONTRIBUTIONS; FORMER MERF DIVISION.
(a) On September 15, 2019, and annually thereafter, the state shall pay to the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association, with respect to the former MERF division, $16,000,000.
(b) State contributions under this section end on September 15, 2031.
(c) The commissioner of management and budget shall pay the contribution specified in this section. The amount required is appropriated annually from the general fund to the commissioner of management and budget.
History:
1979 c 303 art 6 s 9; 1980 c 614 s 148; 1981 c 224 s 186; 1981 c 298 s 11; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 10 s 22; 1985 c 248 s 58; 1Sp1985 c 13 s 331,332; 1987 c 259 s 70; 1988 c 718 art 7 s 56; 1989 c 329 art 9 s 28; 1991 c 130 s 37; 1991 c 345 art 4 s 10; 1992 c 480 s 1; 1992 c 499 art 12 s 29; 1993 c 307 art 10 s 5; 1994 c 628 art 3 s 34; 1997 c 202 art 2 s 48; 1998 c 397 art 11 s 3; 1999 c 222 art 17 s 3; 2000 c 488 art 12 s 18; 2002 c 392 art 11 s 52; 2006 c 271 art 3 s 47; 2007 c 134 art 8 s 7,9; 2008 c 277 art 1 s 82; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109; 2010 c 359 art 11 s 21,26; 2015 c 68 art 14 s 15; 1Sp2017 c 4 art 2 s 45; 1Sp2019 c 6 art 11 s 14
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.63 — Policy.

353.63 POLICY.
It is the recognized policy of the state that special consideration should be given to employees of governmental subdivisions who devote their time and skills to protecting the property and personal safety of others. Since this work is hazardous, special provisions are hereby made for retirement pensions, disability benefits and survivors benefits based on the particular dangers inherent in these occupations. The benefits provided in sections 353.63 to 353.68 are more costly than similar benefits for other public employees since they are computed on the basis of a shorter working lifetime taking into account experience which has been universally recognized. This extra cost should be borne by the employee and employer alike at the ratio of 40 percent employee contributions and 60 percent employer contributions.
History:
1959 c 650 s 31
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.652 — Social Security Benefit Offset.

353.652 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT OFFSET.
(a) If a public employee continues in retirement plan coverage by the public employees police and fire retirement plan by virtue of this article and subsequently is covered by the federal old age, survivors, and disability insurance program for service as a Rice County correctional officer, the retirement annuity of the person under section 353.651 or the disability benefit of the person under section 353.656 must be reduced dollar for dollar for the Social Security benefit that the person is entitled to receive by virtue of Rice County correctional service rendered after the effective date of section 1.
(b) To be effective, the retirement annuity or disability benefit application form for a Rice County correctional employee must include signed written permission by the person for the Public Employees Retirement Association to obtain the necessary information from the federal old age, survivors, and disability insurance program to implement the offset provision in paragraph (a).
History:
1999 c 222 art 14 s 4
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.659 — Local Relief Association Consolidation Account Benefits.

353.659 LOCAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION CONSOLIDATION ACCOUNT BENEFITS.
(a) For any person who had prior service covered by a local police or firefighters relief association which has merged with the public employees police and fire retirement plan and who has elected the type of benefit coverage provided by the public employees police and fire fund benefit plan as permitted by the applicable law, the retirement benefits payable are governed by the applicable provisions of this chapter.
(b) For any person who had prior service covered by a local police or firefighters relief association which has merged with the public employees police and fire retirement plan and who did not elect the type of benefit coverage provided by the public employees police and fire fund benefit plan as permitted by the applicable law, the retirement benefits payable are governed by the provisions of Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 353B.01 to 353B.13, which applied to the applicable former relief association or by section 353.6511 or 353.6512, if applicable.
History:
1987 c 296 s 7; 1992 c 432 art 2 s 23; 2013 c 111 art 5 s 54
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.666 — Past Service Credit For Certain Members Extended Coverage.

353.666 PAST SERVICE CREDIT FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS EXTENDED COVERAGE.
(a) A member to whom public employees police and fire retirement plan membership was extended under section 353.64, subdivision 11, may receive retroactive service credit in the public employees police and fire retirement plan for service as a tribal police officer rendered before the effective date of membership of the tribal police department employee in the police and fire fund, provided that the employee and the police department did not make contributions into a qualified tax-deferred retirement plan for that employment period.
(b) The request for retroactive coverage must be in writing and must be filed with the association within 60 days of when police and fire fund membership commenced. The prior service credit purchase payment is governed by section 356.551, except that the member must pay an amount equal to the employee salary deductions. The employee salary deductions for the retroactive period must be based on the police and fire pension plan member contribution rates in effect when the service was rendered and applied to the salary amount that was earned and paid to the police officer. The employer must pay the balance of the prior service credit purchase payment amount within 30 days of the member contribution payment.
History:
2000 c 461 art 7 s 3; 2005 c 10 art 5 s 4
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.67 — Application For Annuity.

353.67 APPLICATION FOR ANNUITY.
Application for retirement annuity may be made by a member or by someone authorized to act in behalf of the member.
History:
1959 c 650 s 35; 1965 c 880 s 9; 1986 c 444
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.68 — Scope And Application.

353.68 SCOPE AND APPLICATION.
Subdivision 1.
Application.
The general provisions of this chapter apply to all police officers and firefighters who are members of the police and fire fund and also to all governmental subdivisions employing such members except where otherwise specifically provided in sections 353.63 to 353.68.
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 3.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 4.
Deferred annuity.
The deferred annuity of section 353.34, subdivision 3, as it applies to members of the police and fire fund, begins and is computed in the manner provided in section 353.651 on the basis of the law in effect on the date of termination of public service. The deferred annuity is augmented under section 353.34, subdivision 3.
Subd. 5.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 6.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 7.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 8.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
Subd. 9.
[Repealed, 1973 c 753 s 85]
History:
1959 c 650 s 36; 1961 c 743 s 3; 1963 c 639 s 2; 1963 c 641 s 35-37; 1963 c 659 s 1; 1965 c 814 s 2; Ex1967 c 37 s 4; 1969 c 940 s 15; 1971 c 412 s 3; 1973 c 753 s 78; 1992 c 432 art 2 s 24; 2022 c 65 art 9 s 9
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.855 — Coverage By The Public Employees Retirement Association.

353.855 COVERAGE BY THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any person whose employment by, or assumption of a position as an appointed or elected officer of, the city of Minneapolis, any of the boards, departments, or commissions operated as a department of the city of Minneapolis or independently if financed in whole or in part by funds of the city of Minneapolis, the Metropolitan Airports Commission, the former Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund, or Special School District Number 1 if the person is not a member of the Teachers Retirement Association by virtue of that employment or position, initially commences on or after July 1, 1979, is a member of the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association unless excluded from membership under section 353.01, subdivision 2b.
History:
1979 c 303 art 6 s 10; 1981 c 224 s 193; 1981 c 298 s 11; 2010 c 359 art 11 s 22,26
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.86 — Volunteer Ambulance Service Personnel; Participation; Election; Limitation; And Compensation.

353.86 VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE PERSONNEL; PARTICIPATION; ELECTION; LIMITATION; AND COMPENSATION.
Subdivision 1.
Participation.
Volunteer ambulance service personnel, as defined in section 353.01, subdivision 35, who are or become members of and participants in the general employees retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund before July 1, 2002, and make contributions to either of those funds based on compensation for service other than volunteer ambulance service may elect to participate in that same fund with respect to compensation received for volunteer ambulance service, provided that the volunteer ambulance service is not credited to another public or private pension plan including the public employees retirement plan established by chapter 353D and provided further that the volunteer ambulance service is rendered for the same governmental unit for which the nonvolunteer ambulance service is rendered.
Subd. 2.
Election.
Volunteer ambulance service personnel to whom subdivision 1 applies may exercise the election authorized under subdivision 1 within the earlier of the one-year period beginning on July 1, 1989, and extending through June 30, 1990, or the one-year period commencing on the first day of the first month following the start of employment in a position covered by the general employees retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund. The election must be exercised by filing a written notice on a form prescribed by the executive director of the association.
Subd. 3.
Limitation.
Volunteer ambulance service personnel to whom subdivision 1 applies who exercise their option in accordance with subdivision 2 and their governmental employers are not required to pay omitted deductions and contributions under section 353.27, subdivision 12, for volunteer ambulance service rendered before July 1, 1989.
Subd. 4.
Compensation.
Notwithstanding section 353.01, subdivision 10, compensation received for service rendered by volunteer ambulance service personnel to whom subdivision 1 applies who exercise their option in accordance with subdivision 2 shall be considered salary.
History:
1989 c 319 art 3 s 23; 1Sp2001 c 10 art 11 s 17; 2010 c 359 art 12 s 14,15
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association › Section 353.87 — Volunteer Firefighters; Participation; Limitation; And Refund.

353.87 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS; PARTICIPATION; LIMITATION; AND REFUND.
Subdivision 1.
Participation.
Except as provided in subdivision 2, a volunteer firefighter, as defined in section 353.01, subdivision 36, who, on June 30, 1989, was a member of, and a participant in, the general employees retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund and was making contributions to either of those funds based, at least in part, on compensation for services performed as a volunteer firefighter shall continue as a member of, and a participant in, the general employees retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund and compensation for services performed as a volunteer firefighter must be considered salary.
Subd. 2.
Option.
A volunteer firefighter to whom subdivision 1 applies has the option to terminate membership and future participation in the general employees retirement fund or the public employees police and fire fund upon filing of a written notice of intention to terminate participation. Notice must be given on a form prescribed by the executive director of the association and must be filed in the offices of the association not later than June 30, 1990.
Subd. 3.
Limitation.
No volunteer firefighter to whom subdivision 1 applies or the governmental employer of the volunteer firefighter is required to make back contributions to the Public Employees Retirement Association for volunteer firefighter services rendered before July 1, 1989, notwithstanding the provisions of section 353.27, subdivision 12.
Subd. 4.
Refund.
Upon timely filing of a valid notice of termination of participation in accordance with subdivision 2, a volunteer firefighter to whom subdivision 1 applies must be given a refund of all past employee contributions made on account of volunteer firefighter service with five percent interest compounded annually.
Subd. 5.
[Repealed, 1990 c 570 art 11 s 13]
History:
1989 c 319 art 3 s 24; 2010 c 359 art 12 s 16,17
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.03 — Funding Of Plan.

353D.03 FUNDING OF PLAN.
Subdivision 1.
Contributions for eligible participants.
(a) The following classes of eligible participants who elect to participate in the public employees defined contribution plan under section 353D.02 shall contribute an amount equal to five percent of salary as defined in section 353.01, subdivision 10:
(1) local government officials;
(2) physicians; and
(3) persons who are excluded from membership under section 353.01, subdivision 2b, paragraph (a), clause (23).
(b) A participant's governmental subdivision shall contribute a matching amount.
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 2010 c 359 art 5 s 28]
Subd. 3.
Ambulance service, rescue squad personnel contribution.
(a) A public ambulance service that elects to participate in the plan shall fund benefits for its qualified personnel who individually elect to participate.
(b) Personnel who are paid for their services may elect to make member contributions in an amount not to exceed the service's contribution on their behalf.
(c) Ambulance service contributions on behalf of salaried employees must be a fixed percentage of salary.
(d) An ambulance service making contributions for volunteer or largely uncompensated personnel, or a municipality or county making contributions on behalf of rescue squad members who are volunteers or largely uncompensated personnel, may assign a unit value for each call or each period of alert duty for the purpose of calculating ambulance service or rescue squad service contributions, as applicable.
Subd. 4.
[Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 12 s 42]
Subd. 5.
City managers.
A city manager who elects to participate in the plan shall contribute an amount equal to the contribution under section 353.27, subdivision 2. The applicable city shall make a contribution equal to the contribution required under section 353.27, subdivision 3.
Subd. 6.
Volunteer firefighters.
(a) Unless paragraph (b) applies, a volunteer or emergency on-call firefighter who elects to participate in the plan shall contribute at least 7.5 percent of any compensation received for firefighting services.
(b) If the municipality or the independent nonprofit firefighting corporation ratified the election of plan coverage under section 353D.02, subdivision 6, the volunteer firefighter and the employing unit shall contribute in total an amount equal at least to 7.5 percent of any compensation received for firefighting services.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 3; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 4; 1991 c 291 art 19 s 5,11; 1992 c 432 art 2 s 38; 1996 c 438 art 6 s 3; 1999 c 222 art 21 s 3; 2006 c 271 art 3 s 34,35; 2010 c 359 art 5 s 14; 2014 c 275 art 2 s 11; 2015 c 68 art 12 s 24; 2023 c 47 art 3 s 4
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.04 — Contributions And Deductions In Error.

353D.04 CONTRIBUTIONS AND DEDUCTIONS IN ERROR.
Subdivision 1.
Crediting of contributions to participant accounts.
(a) Contributions made by or on behalf of a participant under section 353D.03, subdivisions 1, 5, and 6, paragraph (a), must be remitted to the Public Employees Retirement Association and credited to the individual account established for the participant.
(b) Contributions as provided under section 353D.03, subdivisions 3 and 6, paragraph (b), must be remitted on a regular basis to the association together with any member contributions paid or withheld. Those contributions must be credited to the individual account of each participating member.
Subd. 2.
Authority to adopt policies correcting erroneous contributions.
The executive director may adopt policies and procedures regarding deductions taken totally or partially in error by the employer from the salary of an elected official.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 4; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 5; 1991 c 341 s 37; 1992 c 432 art 2 s 39; 1993 c 307 art 4 s 48; 1996 c 438 art 6 s 4; 2010 c 359 art 5 s 15,16
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.05 — Investment Of Funds.

353D.05 INVESTMENT OF FUNDS.
Subdivision 1.
Investment.
As further specified under this section, employing unit contributions, after the deduction of an amount for administrative expenses, and individual participant contributions must be invested in the participant's account or accounts in investment products authorized by the association that are made available for this purpose by the State Board of Investment under section 356.645.
Subd. 1a.
Participant selection of investments.
(a) A plan participant may elect to allocate contributions, made by and on behalf of the participant, in one or more of the investment products authorized by the association to be made available under the plan, by specifying the percentage of the participant's contributions to be used to purchase shares in the authorized products.
(b) If contributions are received before the participant has made an allocation election, or if the participant fails to specify an allocation, the executive director shall, on behalf of that participant, purchase shares in a default investment alternative. The investment option must be specified by the Public Employees Retirement Association board of trustees from the designated available investment options authorized under this section.
(c) A participant may revise the investment allocation for subsequent purchase of shares, and a participant or former participant may also change the investment options selected for all or a portion of shares previously purchased.
(d) Any investment allocation selection authorized under this subdivision, whether relating to subsequent purchases of new shares or reallocating the existing portfolio, must be conducted at times and under procedures prescribed by the executive director.
Subd. 2.
[Repealed, 2014 c 296 art 13 s 28]
Subd. 3.
Administrative expenses.
The executive director of the association with the advice and consent of the board shall annually set an amount to recover the costs of the association in administering the public employees defined contribution plan.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 5; 1988 c 453 s 11; 1988 c 709 art 5 s 34; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 6,7; 1991 c 291 art 19 s 7,11; 1991 c 341 s 38; 1992 c 432 art 2 s 40,41; 1992 c 539 s 13,14; 1993 c 307 art 4 s 49; 1994 c 465 art 3 s 57; 1994 c 604 art 1 s 14; 1998 c 390 art 2 s 8; 2008 c 349 art 5 s 24; 2014 c 296 art 13 s 15,16
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.06 — Reporting.

353D.06 REPORTING.
The executive director of the public employees retirement association shall prescribe the reporting forms required from employing units and the election forms required from participants. Reporting forms must contain names, identification numbers, amount of contribution by and on behalf of each participant, and such other data as is required to keep an accurate record of the account value of each participant.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 6; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 8; 1991 c 291 art 19 s 9,11
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.08 — Portability.

353D.08 PORTABILITY.
Participating ambulance service personnel who change employment or membership among participating ambulance services shall continue participation in the plan if termination from one participating ambulance service and commencement in another participating ambulance service occurs within 30 days.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 8; 1988 c 709 art 5 s 38; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 10
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.09 — Tax Qualification.

353D.09 TAX QUALIFICATION.
The Public Employees Retirement Association shall adopt rules necessary for administration of the plan. The proposed plan shall be formulated and adopted in accordance with applicable restrictions and standards of the Internal Revenue Code and rulings and regulations of the Internal Revenue Service in order to assure the tax-exempt status of the plan as a qualified pension plan. Contributions may be accepted only after approval by the Internal Revenue Service.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 9; 1990 c 570 art 8 s 11
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353D — Public Employees Defined Contribution Plan › Section 353D.10 — Not Considered A Local Plan.

353D.10 NOT CONSIDERED A LOCAL PLAN.
The plan is not a local governmental pension plan or fund for purposes of section 356.25.
History:
1987 c 372 art 5 s 10
2023 Minnesota Statutes › Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement › Chapter 353E — Local Government Correctional Service Retirement › Section 353E.001 — Definitions.

353E.001 DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1.
Duty disability.
"Duty disability," physical or psychological, means a condition that is expected to prevent a member, for a period of not less than 12 months, from performing the normal duties of a local government correctional service employee as defined under section 353E.02 and that is the direct result of an injury incurred during, or a disease arising out of, the performance of inherently dangerous duties that are specific to the positions covered by the local government correctional service retirement plan.
Subd. 1a.
Fund.
"Fund" means the public employees local government correctional service retirement fund.
Subd. 2.
Less frequent duties.
"Less frequent duties" means tasks designated in the applicant's job description as either required from time to time or as assigned, but which are not carried out as part of the normal routine of the applicant's job.
Subd. 2a.
Member.
"Member" means an individual identified as a member under section 353E.02, for whom retirement coverage is provided by the plan.
Subd. 3.
Normal duties.
"Normal duties" means specific tasks designated in the applicant's job description and which the applicant performs on a day-to-day basis, but do not include less frequent duties which may be requested to be done by the employer from time to time.
Subd. 3a.
Plan.
"Plan" means the public employees local government correctional service retirement plan.
Subd. 4.
Regular disability.
"Regular disability," physical or psychological, means a condition that is expected to prevent a member, for a period of not less than 12 months, from performing the normal duties of a local government correctional service employee as defined under section 353E.02 and that results from a disease or an injury that arises from any activities while not at work or while at work from performing those normal or less frequent duties that do not present inherent dangers that are specific to the occupations covered by the local government correctional service retirement plan.
History:
2007 c 134 art 4 s 31; 2013 c 111 art 11 s 12; 2023 c 47 art 2 s 7-9