44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT; AMENDING THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS RETIREMENT ACT TO REMOVE THE AGE LIMITATION ON THE ELIGIBILITY OF PARTICIPANTS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. 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 public employees retirement association;

C. "fire department" means any volunteer fire department certified by the state fire marshal's office;

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 [and no later than during the year in which he attained the age of forty-five]. Excluded from membership is any volunteer nonsalaried firefighter who has been retired by or is receiving an annuity from any other retirement, pension or annuity plan created and established by the state or any of its political subdivisions, except the state police pension fund established under the provisions of Sections 29-4-1 through 29-4-11 NMSA 1978."