AN ACT
RELATING TO RETIREMENT; PERMITTING
RETIRED VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS RECEIVING BENEFITS PURSUANT TO THE VOLUNTEER
FIREFIGHTERS RETIREMENT ACT TO ALSO RECEIVE BENEFITS PURSUANT TO RETIREMENT
PLANS ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE OR ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 10-11A-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1983,
Chapter 263, Section 1) is amended to read:
"10-11A-1. SHORT TITLE.--Chapter 10, Article 11A NMSA
1978 may be cited as the "Volunteer Firefighters Retirement
Act"."
Section 2. Section 10-11A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1983,
Chapter 263, Section 2) is amended to read:
"10-11A-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Volunteer
Firefighters Retirement Act:
A. "association" means the public
employees retirement association;
B. "board" means the retirement board
of the association;
C. "fire department" means any
volunteer fire department certified by the fire marshal bureau of the insurance
division of the public regulation commission;
D. "fund" means the volunteer
firefighters retirement fund; and
E. "member" means any volunteer
nonsalaried firefighter who is listed as an active member on the rolls of a
fire department and whose first year of service credit was accumulated during
or after the year he attained the age of sixteen.”
HAFC/HB 408,
660 & 730
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