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A.  Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, each firefighter on the retired list of the fire department and each surviving spouse of a member of the fire department shall receive a pension of not less than twelve hundred dollars per month.

B.  The contributions now required by law to be paid into the fund by firefighters on the active list shall not be increased by reason of any provision of this Section.

Amended by Acts 1967, No. 68, §2; Acts 1969, No. 120, §1; Acts 1970, No. 168, §1; Acts 1979, No. 476, §1, eff. January 1, 1980; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 33:2117.2 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1995, No. 863, §1, eff. June 28, 1995; Acts 1997, No. 607, §1; Acts 2007, No. 305, §1, eff. July 9, 2007.