RS 11:3179
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RS 11:3179
§3179. Limitation on payments; refunds
That no pensions or disability payments shall be allotted or paid until the net amount of the said Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund shall be sixteen thousand and five hundred dollars and any person or persons who shall be eligible to any of the benefits provided in this act before said fund shall have attained said amount shall be placed upon a waiting list and when funds are available for disbursement shall receive said benefits from and after said date, in whole or in part according to the funds available, but the failure to receive the full amount allowable hereunder will not create a charge against future funds for the deficit; provided that if any member of the Department, or his widow or children become entitled to disability payments or pensions but shall not receive same because the fund has not reached the proportion set forth in this section, said person or persons shall have the option of having refunded to him, her or them such sums as shall have been paid into the said fund by the member through the monthly deductions from his pay, and said payments, when made, shall be in full, final and complete satisfaction of any claim which any of said parties may have against said fund.
Designated from Acts 1944, No. 193, §6 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.