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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