CHAPTER 3. POLICEMEN'S PENSION AND RELIEF FUNDS

PART I. PENSION AND RELIEF FUND IN

MUNICIPALITIES BETWEEN 7,500 AND 250,000

SUBPART A. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE

TO ALL FUNDS

§3501. Municipalities affected; merger with Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System

A. Repealed by Acts 1973, No. 189, §4.

B. The provisions of this Subpart do not apply to the municipality in which the capitol of Louisiana is or may be located nor do they apply to the city of Shreveport, Louisiana; provided, however, that the provisions of R.S. 11:3521 shall apply to the municipality in which the capitol of Louisiana is or may be located.

C. If the fund exists in the municipality on the effective date of the Revised Statutes, under Act 290 of 1914, as amended, it is continued in effect subject to the provisions of this Sub-part. The rights of any person under Act 290 of 1914, as amended, which exist on the effective date of the Revised Statutes, are continued in effect.

D.(1) Any municipality which has a police retirement plan established under R.S. 11:3501 et seq. shall merge its active members into the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, and such merger shall be binding on all parties. Such merger shall be preceded by an actuarial investigation of the assets and liabilities of the system being merged. The municipalities which provide retirement with sixteen, twenty, or twenty-five years of service credit at any age shall guarantee and pay its regular retirement benefits to any employee who takes a deferred retirement with sixteen, twenty, or twenty-five years of service credit prior to reaching age fifty or fifty-five until the retiree reaches the age of fifty or fifty-five and is eligible to receive a benefit from the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System. The municipality paying the benefit shall, in computing said benefit, use the salary and all years of service credit that would have been used had no merger taken place and if the municipality is one where military service credit cannot be purchased until the member has twenty years of service credit, the computation of the benefit shall not include any years of military service credit unless the member actually has twenty years of service credit without the military service credit. The municipality shall pay to the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System in one cash payment an amount equal to sixty percent of the accrued liability, as determined or approved by the actuary for the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, for all members and service credit merged or, at the option of the municipality, such payment may be made in annual payments plus seven percent interest compounded annually over a period not exceeding thirty years.

(2) Any municipality which has a police retirement plan established under R.S. 11:3501 et seq. may merge its retirees, beneficiaries, or survivors into the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System and such merger shall be binding on all parties. Such merger shall be preceded by an actuarial investigation of the accrued liability for such retirees, beneficiaries, or survivors and the municipality shall pay in one cash payment an amount equal to the accrued liability for the retirees, beneficiaries, or survivors or, at the option of the municipality it shall pay the accrued liability for all retirees, beneficiaries, or survivors in annual payments plus seven percent interest compounded annually over a period not exceeding thirty years.

(3) Should any municipality fail to make any payments provided herein the board of trustees of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System may proceed to collect such amounts with interest at the rate of legal interest by action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the municipality liable therefor or such amounts shall, upon due certification of delinquency and at the request of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, be deducted from any other monies payable to such municipality by any department or agency of the state.

(4) Should any municipality fail to pay any of the guaranteed retirement benefits to any member who takes a deferred retirement from the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System as provided herein, the board of trustees of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System shall proceed after sixty days to collect sufficient funds and pay said benefits. Sufficient funds to pay said benefits shall, upon due certification of delinquency and at the request of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, be deducted from any monies payable to such municipality by any department or agency of the state.

E. The mandatory merger requirement of Subsection D of this Section shall be inapplicable with respect to any municipality, which enacts an ordinance exempting the municipality from the mandatory requirements of Subsection D. However, should any municipality which enacts the ordinance authorized by this Subsection choose to merge its active members, retirees, beneficiaries, or survivors into this system, all provisions and requirements of Subsection D must be complied with.

Amended by Acts 1952, No. 440, §1; Acts 1954, No. 297, §1; Acts 1968, No. 641, §1; Acts 1969, No. 113, §1; Acts 1974, No. 338, §1; Acts 1982, No. 585, §1; Acts 1990, No. 430, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2221 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1997, No. 23, §1.