Title 15 — Title 15 — Cities And Towns

Politically related activities prohibited. No officer or employee of a department shall discharge or change the amount of compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten to do so, for giving, withholding or neglecting to make contributions or perform service…

Duties of commission; employee roster. The commission shall keep at its office a roster showing the name, residence, position, date employed, compensation and duties of each person in the service. The commission has access to all public records and papers.

Duties of commission; employee certification. The commission shall certify to the city clerk the names of employees in the service, stating in each case the character and date of commencement of service and any change in service. The governing body shall not allow a bill for serv…

Duties of commission; rules; other powers. (a) The commission, together with a committee of three (3) designated by the mayor from the governing body shall adopt, and the commission shall enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the government of their proceedings. The com…

Prohibitions with respect to examinations. (a) No person shall willfully or corruptly, by himself or in cooperation with anyone else: (i) Defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect to his rights to examination; (ii) Falsely mark, grade, estimate or report upon the examinat…

Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.

Fire and police services provided under cooperative agreements; exemption from civil service provisions; service credit. (a) The examination, preference and initial employment criteria of W.S. 15-5-105 through 15-5-108 shall not apply to a person employed in a fire or police depa…

(a) Definitions. As used in this article: (i) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 41, § 3. (ii) "Benefit unit" means each of the following: (A) Each paid fireman; (B) Each person receiving a monthly pension under W.S. 15-5-204; (C) Each person receiving a disability pension under W.S. 15-…

Pension account; creation; administration; donations; investment; dual participation prohibited. (a) There is created a firemen's pension account for the purpose of paying the awards, benefits and pensions under the provisions of this article. The account shall be administered by…

Firemen and employer contributions; imposition at discretion of board; amounts; how and when collected, suspended and reinstated. (a) In addition to the amount appropriated to the firemen's pension account by W.S. 15-5-202, every paid fireman may, at the discretion of the board, …

Pensions; amounts; qualifications; when paid; disability benefits; disqualifications; examinations; disallowance; actions; adjustment; rehiring. (a) Any person qualifying may retire from active service and receive a monthly pension of seventy-five percent (75%) of the maximum mon…

Death benefits to surviving spouse; amounts; limitations; length of payments. (a) If any paid fireman dies from any cause, the board shall pay to the surviving spouse a monthly pension equal to the greater of the monthly benefit payable to the fireman under W.S. 15-5-204 or the m…

amounts. Death benefits to dependent father and mother; If any paid fireman dies, leaving no surviving spouse or children, but leaves a surviving dependent father or mother or both, the board shall pay to the mother if there is no father, to the father if there is no mother or to…

Application for benefits; statement filed; determination; review; appeal. If any fireman, his surviving spouse, dependent children or dependent parents are entitled to any pension or benefits under this article, the fireman, or in the event of his death, the chief of the fire dep…

Pension application; payments thereafter; when benefits suspended. Application for pension may be made prior to actual retirement upon statement of the intention to retire, but payment shall not begin until the applicant has actually retired and his name is stricken from the payr…

Payments; when and how made; protections; nonassignability; qualified domestic relations order. (a) Payments made under this article shall be made to the beneficiaries on or before the fifth day of each month and shall be made by voucher approved by the board or its designee draw…

Repealed By Laws 1996, ch. 6, § 2.

Fire A pension plan legislative findings. (a) The legislature finds: (i) The paid firemen's pension plan was established in 1935 and restructured in 1981. In 1981 with the restructuring of the paid firemen's pension plan, the original firemen's pension plan became known as "paid …

Pension fund; establishment; separate accounts. The governing body of any city or town maintaining a paid police department and having a population of more than four thousand (4,000), after ten (10) days published notice and a public hearing thereon, may establish a policemen pen…

Pension fund; contributions; salary deductions; unfunded liability; city or town and state responsibilities; adjustment of contributions. (a) The city or town shall contribute annually to the existing account an actuarially determined amount which combined with the police officer…

Pension board; composition; election and term of police members. If a policemen pension fund is established, the governing body and three (3) members elected from the police department constitute the policemen pension board to manage the fund as provided in this article. The poli…

Pension board; officers; reports; information. The mayor is ex officio chairman of the board, and the members of the board shall elect the other necessary officers. The secretary of the board shall make annual reports to the governing body on the condition of the fund, the receip…

Pension board; meetings; record and quorum; list of entitled pensioners; vouchers. (a) The board shall meet at least once each month as scheduled by the board and otherwise upon the call of the chairman. It shall keep a record of its proceedings, which is a public record. A major…

Board powers and duties. (a) The board has the power to compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon all matters connected with the operation of this article in the same manner as provided by law for the taking of testimony in courts of record in this state. The chairman…

Retirement age; length of service; pension amounts; leaving service early; benefit adjustment. (a) When any person duly appointed or selected and sworn as a member in any capacity or rank, other than department chief, of the police department of any city or town subject to the pr…

Retirement age; physical disability; pension amounts; reinstatement. (a) If any person, while serving as a policeman is physically disabled as a result of any bodily injury received in the immediate or direct performance or discharge of his duties, the board, upon his written req…

Death benefits; surviving spouse and children; amounts; length of payments; benefit adjustment. (a) Upon the death from any cause, of any person appointed or selected and sworn as a member in any capacity or rank of the police department of any city or town subject to the provisi…

Examination of disabled retiree. Any person retired for disability may be summoned by written notice to appear before the board at any time thereafter for examination as to his fitness for duty, and he shall abide by the decision and order of the board with reference thereto.

Benefits terminated upon felony conviction. If any person receiving any benefit from the fund is convicted of a felony, the board shall order that the pension granted to that person immediately cease, and he shall receive no further pension allowance or benefit under this article…

Application for benefits; statement filed; determination; review. If any policeman, his surviving wife, dependent children or dependent parents are entitled to any pension or benefits under this article, the policeman, or in the event of his death the dependent, shall apply for b…

Pension application; when payments made and benefits suspended; pension protections. (a) Application for pension may be made prior to actual retirement upon statement of the intention to retire, but payment shall not begin until the applicant has actually retired and his name is …

Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.

Citation. This article is known as the "Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981".

(a) Definitions. As used in this article: (i) "Account" means the firemen's pension account established by W.S. 15-5-202; (ii) "Board" means the retirement board established by W.S. 9-3-404 and includes all the powers and duties enumerated in W.S. 9-3-401 through 9-3-429; (iii) "…

Eligibility for service pension. (a) A member is eligible to receive a service pension after he has terminated employment beginning with the month when he has four (4) years of credited service and has attained age fifty (50). (b) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 75, § 2. (c) An inacti…

Vesting rights; return to service. (a) A member who has four (4) years of credited service has a vested right to a service pension payable as provided in W.S. 15-5-403(c). (b) If a member who has less than four (4) years of credited service ceases to be an employee, his service c…

Eligibility for disability pension. (a) A member, not otherwise eligible for a service pension, who suffers a disability is eligible for a disability pension. (b) The determination of disability shall be made by the board in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the bo…

Survivor benefits. The eligible surviving spouse or dependents of a member shall receive a survivor's pension if the member dies from any cause while in service.

Payment of service or early retirement pensions. Service or early retirement pensions shall be made to a retired member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he dies, unless an optional form has …

Payment of disability pension. (a) Disability pension payments shall be made to a member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he ceases to be eligible or dies, unless an optional form has been e…

Amount of service pension. (a) The amount of the monthly service pension payable to a retired member is: (i) Two and eight-tenths percent (2.8%) of his final average compensation multiplied by the number of years in his first twenty-five (25) years of his period of credited servi…

Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 75, § 2.

Amount of disability pension. (a) The disability pension shall be the greater of: (i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average compensation; or (ii) The service pension based on credited service accrued to the date of disability.

Amount of survivor's pension. (a) The monthly survivor's pension payable to a member's eligible primary survivor or, if there is no eligible surviving spouse, then to his eligible surviving dependents, shall be equal to the greater of: (i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average com…

Optional forms of benefits. (a) Any member eligible for a service or disability pension may elect to receive one (1) of the following optional forms, in lieu of the pension computed in W.S. 15-5-409 through 15-5-411, which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which…

Death benefit. Except as may otherwise be provided in any of the options under W.S. 15-5-413, upon the death of a member, inactive member, retired member or individual receiving a survivor's pension, there shall be paid to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries or, in the ab…

Withdrawal benefit. (a) The accumulated contributions without interest of a member who is neither eligible for a service nor disability pension, nor has a vested right to a service pension, shall be refunded upon his withdrawal from service. There shall be a rebuttable presumptio…

Repealed By Laws 2012, Ch. 107, § 3.

Application of benefits. (a) A service pension, disability pension, survivor's pension, death benefit or withdrawal benefit shall be paid only upon the filing of an application in a form prescribed by the board. A monthly benefit shall not be payable for any month earlier than th…

Election of membership. (a) A "paid fireman" as defined in W.S. 15-5-201(a)(xi) may elect to become a member, as defined in this article by filing an election with the board not later than December 31, 1981, or within thirty (30) days of return to service, if later, for any paid …