Florida · statute · Fla. Stat. ch. 175 · 39 active provisions
(1) It is hereby declared by the Legislature that firefighters perform state and municipal functions; that it is their duty to extinguish fires, to protect life, and to protect property at their own risk and peril; that it is their duty to prevent conflagration and to continuously instruct school personnel, public offi…
This chapter may be cited as the “Marvin B. Clayton Firefighters Pension Trust Fund Act.”
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter, the term:(1) “Additional premium tax revenues” means revenues received by a municipality or special fire control district pursuant to s. 175.121 which…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) There shall be established a special fund exclusively for the purpose of this chapter, which in the case of chapter plans shall be known as the “Fi…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter, actuarial deficits, if any, arising under this chapter shall not be the obligation of the state.
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) In each municipality and in each special fire control district there is hereby created a board of trustees of the firefighters’ pension trust fund,…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) The board of trustees, subject to the fiduciary standards in ss. 112.656, 112.661, and 518.11, the Code of Ethics in ss. 112.311-112.3187, and the…
When the board of trustees of any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan purchases annuity or life insurance contracts to provide all or any part of the benefits as provided for by this chapter, the following principl…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) The firefighters’ pension trust fund in each municipality and in each special fire control district shall be created and maintained in the followin…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) Each municipality or special fire control district in this state described and classified in s. 175.041, having a lawfully established firefighters…
(1)(a) Any insurance company that is obligated to report and remit the excise tax on property insurance premiums imposed under s. 175.101 shall be held harmless from any liability, including, but not limited to, liability for taxes, interest, or penalties that would otherwise be due solely as a result of an assignment…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter, whenever any municipality passes an ordinance or whenever any special fire control district passes a resolution establishing a chapter plan or local l…
For any municipality or special fire control district having a chapter or local law plan established pursuant to this chapter:(1) The Department of Revenue shall keep a separate account of all moneys collected for each municipality and each special fire control district under the provisions of this chapter. All moneys…
The Police and Firefighters’ Premium Tax Trust Fund is created, to be administered by the Division of Retirement of the Department of Management Services. Funds credited to the trust fund, as provided in chapter 95-250, Laws of Florida, or similar legislation, shall be expended for the purposes set forth in that legisl…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter, any municipality or special fire control district participating in the firefighters’ pension trust fund pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, wh…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter, all state and other funds received by any municipality or special fire control district under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited by suc…
The tax herein authorized to be imposed by each municipality and each special fire control district shall in nowise be in addition to any similar state excise or license tax imposed by part IV of chapter 624, but the payor of the tax hereby authorized shall receive credit therefor on his or her said state excise or lic…
If any insurance company, corporation or other insurer fails to comply with the provisions of this act, on or before March 1 of each year as herein provided, the certificate of authority issued to said insurance company, corporation or other insurer to transact business in this state may be canceled and revoked by the…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter, any firefighter who completes 10 or more years of creditable service as a firefighter and attains age 55, or completes 25 years of creditable service…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) In lieu of the amount and form of retirement income payable in the event of normal or early retirement as specified in s. 175.162, a firefighter, u…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) Each firefighter may, on a form provided for that purpose, signed and filed with the board of trustees, designate a choice of one or more persons,…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) A firefighter having 10 or more years of credited service or a firefighter who becomes totally and permanently disabled in the line of duty, regard…
(1) It is unlawful for a person to willfully and knowingly make, or cause to be made, or to assist, conspire with, or urge another to make, or cause to be made, any false, fraudulent, or misleading oral or written statement or withhold or conceal material information to obtain any benefit available under a retirement p…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) If a firefighter dies before being eligible to retire, the heirs, legatees, beneficiaries, or personal representatives of such deceased firefighter…
For any municipality, special fire control district, chapter plan, local law municipality, local law special fire control district, or local law plan under this chapter:(1) If a firefighter leaves the service of the municipality or special fire control district before accumulating aggregate time of 10 years toward reti…