West Virginia Code
Article 5V. Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
§16-5V-4. Creation and Administration of West Virginia Emergency Medical Services Retirement System; Specification of Actuarial Assumptions

There is hereby created the West Virginia Emergency Medical Services Retirement System. The purpose of this system is to provide for the orderly retirement of emergency medical services officers who become superannuated because of age or permanent disability and to provide certain survivor death benefits, and it is contemplated that substantially all of the members of the retirement system shall be qualified public safety employees as defined in section two of this article. The retirement system shall come into effect January 1, 2008: Provided, That at least seventy percent of all eligible emergency medical services officers and at least eighty-five percent of the eligible emergency medical services officers who are currently active members of the Public Employees Retirement System elect to participate in this plan by December 31, 2007. If this level of participation is not reached, then all of the provisions of this article are void and of no force and effect. All business of the system shall be transacted in the name of the West Virginia Emergency Medical Services Retirement System. The board shall specify and adopt all actuarial assumptions for the plan at its first meeting of every calendar year or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, which assumptions shall become part of the plan.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 16. Public Health

Article 5V. Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act

§16-5V-1. Title

§16-5V-2. Definitions

§16-5V-3. Meaning of Terms

§16-5V-4. Creation and Administration of West Virginia Emergency Medical Services Retirement System; Specification of Actuarial Assumptions

§16-5V-5. Article to Be Liberally Construed; Supplements Federal Social Security; Federal Qualification Requirements

§16-5V-6. Members

§16-5V-6a. County Firefighter Members

§16-5V-6b. Transfer of County Firefighter Member Assets From Public Employees Retirement System

§16-5V-7. Creation of Fund; Investments; Actuarial Valuations

§16-5V-8. Members' Contributions; Employer Contributions

§16-5V-8a. Correction of Errors; Underpayments; Overpayments

§16-5V-9. Transfer From Public Employees Retirement System

§16-5V-10. Notice Requirements; Test Case

§16-5V-11. Retirement; Commencement of Benefits

§16-5V-12. Federal Law Maximum Benefit Limitations

§16-5V-13. Federal Law Minimum Required Distributions

§16-5V-14. Direct Rollovers

§16-5V-14a. Rollovers and Transfers to Purchase Service Credit or Repay Withdrawn Contributions

§16-5V-15. Retirement Credited Service Through Member's Use, as Option, of Accrued Annual or Sick Leave Days

§16-5V-16. Retirement Benefits

§16-5V-17. Annuity Options

§16-5V-18. Refunds to Certain Members Upon Discharge or Resignation; Deferred Retirement; Forfeitures

§16-5V-19. Awards and Benefits for Disability -- Duty Related

§16-5V-20. Awards and Benefits for Disability -- Due to Other Causes

§16-5V-21. Same -- Physical Examinations; Termination of Disability

§16-5V-23. Awards and Benefits to Surviving Spouse -- When Member Dies in Performance of Duty, etc.

§16-5V-24. Awards and Benefits to Surviving Spouse -- When Member Dies From Nonservice-Connected Causes

§16-5V-25. Additional Death Benefits and Scholarships -- Dependent Children

§16-5V-26. Burial Benefit

§16-5V-27. Double Death Benefits Prohibited

§16-5V-28. Right to Benefits Not Subject to Execution, etc.;assignments Prohibited; Deductions for Group Insurance; Setoffs for Fraud; Exception for Certain Domestic Relations Orders; Benefits Exempt From Taxes

§16-5V-29. Fraud; Penalties; and Repayment

§16-5V-30. Credit Toward Retirement for Member's Prior Military Service; Credit Toward Retirement When Member Has Joined Armed Forces in Time of Armed Conflict; Qualified Military Service

§16-5V-31. How a County Commission, Political Subdivision, or County 911 Public Safety Answering Point Becomes a Participating Public Employer

§16-5V-32. Effective Date; Report to Joint Committee on Government and Finance; Special Starting Date for Benefits

§16-5V-33. Limitation of County Liability

§16-5V-34. Benefits Not Forfeited if System Terminates

§16-5V-35. Return to Covered Employment by Retirant