Title 39, Motor Vehicles

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Accumulated deductions" means the total of the amounts deducted from the salary of a contributor and paid into the fund, and standing to the contributor's credit in the fund, and interest credited on th…

A retirement system is hereby established for the members of the North Dakota highway patrol.

The expense of the administration of this chapter, exclusive of the payment of retirement allowances and other benefits, must be paid by the state of North Dakota, by appropriation out of the highway patrol fund, made on the basis of budgets submitted by the board.

All moneys of the fund, including employers' contributions, contributors' contributions, grants, donations, legacies, and devises for the benefit of the fund, must be deposited in the public employees retirement fund account with the Bank of North Dakota. All of these moneys, not…

The board shall, from time to time, establish such rules and regulations for the administration of this chapter as may be deemed necessary. It shall cause to be made periodic actuarial investigations into the mortality and service experience of the contributors to and the benefic…

Except as otherwise provided, each member of the patrol, including the superintendent and assistant superintendent, shall contribute to the fund, and is eligible to nominate and vote for members of the board. Personnel of the truck regulatory division of the state highway departm…

A contributor may, prior to retirement, purchase service credit for the time during each legislative session spent serving as a member of the legislative assembly while a member of the fund. The contributor shall pay for the service credit an amount equal to the required member c…

1. The fund may accept rollovers from other eligible plans under rules adopted by the board for the purchase of additional service credit, but only to the extent the transfer is a rollover contribution that meets the requirement of section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code [26 U.S…

1. Every member, except as provided in section 39-03.1-07, shall contribute into the fund ten and thirty-hundredths percent of the member's monthly salary, which sum must be deducted from the member's salary and credited to the member's account in the fund. Member contributions i…

The state shall contribute to the fund a sum equal to sixteen and seventy-hundredths percent of the monthly salary or wage of a participating member. State contributions increase by one percent of the monthly salary or wage of a participating member beginning with the monthly rep…

Except as provided in section 39-03.1-10.3, a contributor whose employment has been terminated for at least thirty days is entitled to a refund of or to repurchase contributions as follows: 1. a. If the contributor has less than ten years of service at termination of employment, …

An employer may purchase additional service credit on behalf of a contributor under the following conditions: 1. The contributor may not be given the option to choose between an employer service purchase and an equivalent amount paid in cash. 2. The contributor must meet one of t…

A member re-employed under the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994, as amended [Pub. L. 103-353; 108 Stat. 3150; 38 U.S.C. 4301-4333], is entitled to receive retirement credit for the period of qualified military service. The required contribution f…

The required increase in the amount of member and employer contributions under sections 39-03.1-09 and 39-03.1-10 must be reduced to the rate in effect on July 1, 2013, effective on the July first that follows the first valuation of the highway patrol troopers' retirement plan sh…

Each contributor whose employment with the highway patrol has been terminated may apply to the board for retirement benefits according to this section and rules adopted by the board consistent with this chapter. The following procedures apply: 1. A contributor is entitled to cred…

The board shall administer the plan in compliance with the following sections of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, as it applies for governmental plans. 1. Section 415, including the defined benefit dollar limitation under section 415(b)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code. a…

If the board determines that the fund has obtained a total return on investments of nine and six hundredths percent or higher for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, or June 30, 2008, the board shall authorize an additional payment equal to seventy-five percent of the January r…

1. For the purpose of determining eligibility for benefits under this chapter, a member's years of service is the total of the years of service earned under this chapter and the years of service employment or years of service credit earned in any number of the following, the tota…

1. The board shall pay retirement benefits in accordance with the applicable requirements of any qualified domestic relations order. The board shall review a domestic relations order submitted to it to determine if the domestic relations order is qualified under this section and …

A contributor who is at least the age of sixty years may not continue employment with the patrol. The superintendent shall terminate the employment of such a member. The termination is effective no later than the member's sixtieth birthday.

The allowances granted under the provisions of this chapter may not be increased, decreased, revoked, or repealed except as provided by law.

No person may knowingly make any false statement, or may falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of the retirement system herein established in any attempt to defraud such system. Should any such change in records fraudulently made or any mistake in records inadve…

All payments provided for in this chapter are in addition to any other benefits now or hereafter provided for under the workforce safety and insurance laws of this state.

The legislative assembly in recognition of the value of good employer-employee relationships and the need to recruit and retain qualified highway patrol troopers in this state, hereby declares its intent that the state should provide the comparable contribution for retirement of …

All records relating to the retirement benefits of a member or a beneficiary under this chapter are confidential and are not public records. The information and records may be disclosed, under rules adopted by the board only to: 1. A person to whom the member has given written co…

If the board determines that any section of this chapter does not comply with applicable federal statutes or rules, the board shall adopt appropriate terminology with respect to that section as will comply with those federal statutes or rules, subject to the approval of the emplo…

A member is entitled to credit in the retirement system for each month of unused sick leave, as certified by the employer, if the member or the member's employer pays an amount equal to the member's final average salary, times the number of months of sick leave converted, times t…