Vermont Statutes Title 24 Sec. 5061a
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 24 Sec. 5061a
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Beneficiary: means any person in receipt of a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance, or other benefit as provided by this chapter. See
- Board: means the Board of Trustees of the System provided for in section 5062 of this title to administer the System. See
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Employee: means the following persons employed on a regular basis by a school district or by a supervisory union for no fewer than 1,040 hours in a year and for no fewer than 30 hours a week for the school year, as defined in 16 V. See
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Group D member: means a person employed by a participating municipality who elects to become a Group D member under section 5068 of this title. See
- Member: means any employee included in the membership of the Retirement System under section 5053 of this title. See
- Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this chapter. See
- Service: means service as an employee for which compensation is paid by an employer as defined in subdivision (11) of this section, service recognized under section 5054 of this title, or service prior to the effective date of the plan. See
- System: means the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Vermont, as defined in section 5052 of this title. See
§ 5061a. Accidental and occupationally-related death benefit
If the Retirement Board shall find on the basis of such evidence as may come before it that a Group D member in service died prior to retirement under the System as the natural and proximate result of an accident occurring at a definite time and place during the course of the member‘s performance of duty as an employee, and that such accident was not the result of the member’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct, a retirement allowance shall be paid the member’s dependent beneficiary during the beneficiary‘s life. The terms and conditions of such payments shall be the same as those prescribed for Group C members as defined in 3 V.S.A. § 464. (Added 1999, No. 61, § 8.)