Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 19. PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 18. FIREFIGHTERS' RETIREMENT

Part 6. Benefits

Benefits The Association May Provide

19-18-601. Benefits the association may provide. Every fire department relief association may allow to its members benefits for the following causes, as provided by law:

(1) a service pension to a member who, by reason of service, has become entitled to a service pension;

(2) to a member who has become maimed or disabled for life in line of duty;

(3) to a member who has suffered injury in line of duty;

(4) to a member who has contracted sickness in line of duty;

(5) funeral expenses of a member;

(6) pensions to the surviving spouse, orphan, or orphans of a deceased member.

History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 71, L. 1907; Sec. 3340, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 5123, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 58, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 5123, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 208, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 535, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1915(part); Sec. 19-11-601, MCA 1991; redes. 19-18-601 by Code Commissioner, 1993.