§1150. Allowances; optional allowances
A. Upon application for retirement, any member may elect to receive his benefit in a retirement allowance payable throughout his life. In no case shall the system pay total benefits of less than an amount equal to the member's accumulated contributions. If the member, following retirement, should die prior to receiving in total benefits an amount equal to his accumulated contributions, the balance shall be paid to the person nominated by the member by written designation, which shall be acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees at the time of retirement, or
B. Upon application for retirement, any member may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent at that time of his retirement allowance in a reduced retirement allowance payable throughout life with the options set forth in the numbered paragraphs below. No optional selection shall be effective in case a beneficiary dies within thirty days after the effective date of retirement, and such a beneficiary shall be considered as an active member at the time of death.
(1) If he dies before he has received in annuity payments the present value of his annuity as it was at the time of his retirement, the balance shall be paid to his legal representatives or to any person he shall nominate by written designation acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees.
(2) Upon his death, his reduced retirement allowance shall be continued throughout the life of and paid to any person he shall nominate by written designation acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees at the time of his retirement.
(3) Upon his death, one-half of his reduced retirement allowance shall be continued throughout the life of and paid to any person he shall nominate by written designation acknowledged and filed with the board of trustees at the time of his retirement.
(4) Some other benefit or benefits shall be paid either to the member or to any person or persons he shall nominate provided such other benefit or benefits, together with the reduced retirement allowance, shall be certified by the actuary to be of equivalent actuarial value to his retirement allowance and approved by the board of trustees.
(5) Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 266, §2, eff. July 1, 2001.
Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 110, §1 eff. Jan.1, 1996; Acts 2001, No. 266, §2, eff. July 1, 2001.
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