07.01 - Benefit Level Increase and Bylaws

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Trustees shall certify that such disability will permanently prevent that member from performing �- the member's duties in the Fire Department, the Association shall pay the amount per year of service as shown in Appendix A for each year that the member served as an active firefighter in the Fire Department, without regard to minimum or partial vesting requirements. The member shall be eligible to receive the disability benefit immediately upon approval of the Board of Trustees. ARTICLE XII - AMENDMENTS If the Special Fund of the Association has a deficit, that is, it does not have a surplus over full funding pursuant to Minn. Stat. §69.772, subd. 3(2)(e), or if the City is required to provide financial support to the Special Fund of the Association pursuant to Minn. Stat. §69.772, the adoption of any amendment to the bylaws of the Association which increases or otherwise affects the retirement coverage provided by or retirement benefits payable from the Special Fund of the Association shall not be effective until it is ratified by the City Council of the City, and the officers of the Association shall not seek City ratification prior to preparing and certifying an estimate of the expected increase in the accrued liability and annual accruing liability of the Association attributable to the amendment. If the Special Fund of the Association has a surplus over full funding pursuant to Minn. Stat. §69.772, subd. 3, (2)(e), and if the City is not required to provide financial support to the Special Fund of the Association pursuant to Minn. Stat. §69.772, the Association may adopt or amend its � bylaws of the Association which increases or otherwise affects the retirement coverage provided by or service pensions payable from the Special Fund of the Association, which shall be effective without ratification by the City Council so long as this does not cause the amount of the resulting increase in the accrued liability of the Special Fund of the Association to exceed 90 percent of the amount of the prior surplus over full funding, and this does not result in the financial requirements of the Special Fund of the Association exceeding the expected amount of the future state fire aid to be received by the Association as determined by the board of trustees following the preparation of an estimate of the expected increase in the accrued liability and annual accruing liability of the Association attributable to the change. If the Association adopts or amends its bylaws without city ratification pursuant to Minn. Stat. §69.772, and, subsequent to the amendment or adoption, the financial requirements of the Special Fund of the Association pursuant to Minn. Stat. §69.772 are such so as to require financial support from the City, the provision which was implemented without city ratification shall no longer be effective without city ratification and any service pensions or ancillary beneiits payable after that date shall be paid only in accordance with the bylaws as amended or adopted with city ratification. Amendments to the bylaws, other than those amendments which increase or otherwise affect the retirement coverage, may be adopted at any regular or special meeting of the Association with a favorable vote of 2/3 of the members present and voting, provided a quorum is present, and provided further, notice of any proposed amendment or amendments shall be given by reading at � a regular or special meeting not more than 31 days preceding the date on which the amendment