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Home My WebLink About1968-05-27 142-V ORDER142-V Introduced by Councilor xouston, May 27, 1968 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) PHCbPE,_..Adopting survivor Benefit Payments to Children. By W MY Comwil Of 04 OfParoen. ORDERED, THAT Chapter 509 of Public Laws of 1967 relating to Survivor Benefit Payments to Children be adopted by the City of Bangor; and BE IT FURTHER ORDERED that the acceptance date of this provision be established as of May 1, 1968. RECEIVED 1998 W23 PM 3:12 CITY CLERK'S OFFICE IT' qoI^' IP MAV IN CITY COUNCIL My 27, 1968 PASSED CITY CMM� 142-V ORDER rine, hdopt+p ssviv4S. Benefit. Payments to rnilazen ........................6............. Introduced and Flied by •• • oilman APP^O`✓ED CHAPTER STATE OF MAINE ser PUB UG soh BY GOVERNOfl u IIG NA IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN HUNDRED SiX'I'Y-EIGHT S. P, 760—In D. 1817 AN ACT Relating to Survivor Benefit Payments to Children Under State Retirement Law. Be it cmeted by the People of the State of Mane, on follows: R. 5., T. 5, § 1124, sub-§ x, B B, sub -I (0, dive (b) and (e), amended. Divisions (b) and (c) of subparagraph (1) of panagraph li of sdeection x or section Ime of Title 5 of the Revised Statutes, a amended ( by section 1 of chapter p are of the public laws of 1565, are further amended to read as follows: at the member spouse, who has 'liveand care of remarried time of 'the mounted children of Le deceased llmember under 18 years of age, riled Hooding of the deceased member under: as years of age =4 a full-time student or any other progeny of the deceased who is considered to be mentally incompetent under the general states pertaining thereto, or who is certified to be mentally incompetent by the Medical Board of the Maine Stam Retirement Success, or who is cevtified by the Medical Board of the Maine State Retirement System to be physically and permanently incapacitated, shall be paid $1w a month, commencing the first month after such death occurs and continuing during his lifetime for such time as such children or progeny are in his care and he has not renurried. (f)ihe he un answer unmarried! hill or addition, under 18 years, or unmarried adildi other of the deceased who ad' dg d mentally n skies or ana PragmY 1 ge Y incompetent by probate court St the State of Maine em who 6 mortified by the permanently Beard of the Maine State time of the System to he member, and permanently in as follows at the time of the dcatM1 of the membra, zM1aO receive benefits as tallows: One child shall be paid Into per month, Two children shall be paid $qo per month, which shall be divided equally between them. Three children or more shall be paid $ata per monti, which shall he di- vided equally among them. The benefits shall commence Ne first month after the leant of the member and be payable to each child until he reaches his Ott birthday or until he reaches his nand birthday if a full-time student or prior death, whichever occurs Reap In the event of the marriage or death of any such child prior to his 18th birthday or to his sed birthday if a fuWtime stidentl subsequent benefits to the other children, if any, shall be payable as if he had never lived. The board of trustees shaft adopt such rotes as are found necessary for a bran ficiary to quality as a fulYtlme student. 938H SHRVIVOR BENEFITS Rules for Qualifying as a Full Time Student A child is entitled to a benefit if be or she is unmarried, had rot attained the age of 22 and is a full-time student. A child whose entitlement terminated with the month in which he attained age 18, or later, may thereafter again become entitled to such benefits upon fill" application for such re -entitlement beginning with the first month after such termination in which he is a Oull-time student and has rot attained the age of 22, accept that the affective data of payment shall be no earlier than May 1, 1968. Definitions of Terme "Full-time student" a student who is in full -Lime attendants at an educational lnatltutton, except that no student shell be considered a full-time student if he is paid by his employer for attending an educational institution at his egrloyer's request or pursuant to s requirement of his employer. Pull -Time attendance. Ordinarily, a student to in "full-time attendance" at an educational institution if he is enrolled in a noncorrespocWence course are is carrying a sabject load which in considered full-time for day students under the inatitutfon's standards and practices. However, a student will act be considered in "full-time attendance" (i) if he is enrolled in a junior college, college or university In a course of study of lees than 13 school weeks' duration, or, (1f) if he 18 enrolled in any other educational institution and either the course of sdudy is less than 13 school weeks' duration or his scheduled attendance is at the rate of less than 20 More a weer. A student whose full-time attendance begins or ends in a mouth is In full-time attendance for that month. Teamed Full -Time Student During Period of Monattendance. An indivddual will be deemed a full -Lime student during any period of voenttendance (including part- time attendance) at as educational institution if the period Is 6 consecutive calendar scathe or leas, and the individual: (f) Establishes that he intends to be in full-time atoendmme at an educational institution in the conch incediately fallowing such period, or (ii) Is in full-time attendance at an educational institution in the math fonedfately following such period. However, an individual will rot be deemed a full-time student during my period of mva[Cendavee if the nonattendaaee is due to expulsion or suspeposica, norwith- standivg such individual intends to, or does in fact, xesnme full-time attendance within A calender eonthe after the beginning of such period of nonattendance. Educational institution. An educational institution is a school (including a tenMical, trade oxvcational scbool), Junior college, college, o university which meets any of the conditions described in the following subdivisions of this subparagraph: (i) Ic is operated or directly supported by the United States, or by my State or local government or political subdivision thereof; or (ii) It is approved by a State or accredited by a State-eacogniaad or nationally recognised accrediting agency or body. A nationally recognized accredit- ing agency or body is an agency or body that has been determined to be each by the D.S. Co®isoiener of Education. A state -recognized accrediting agency or body is an sporty or body designated or recognized by a State as proper authority for accrediting schools, colleges, or universities as meeting educational standards. Survivor Benefits, Rules for Qualifying as a Pull -Time Student page 2 Approval by a State Includes approval of a school, college, or university as an educational institution, or of one or more of the school's, college's, Or university's courses, by a State agency or subdivision of the State. This approval may be indirect, as, far eoduple, if attendance at the actual satisfies the Start'a compulsory educative lave, or If the school has a tax exemption as a school, or if the school receives financial aid, loans or scholarship allwameea;er (III) In the case of a nonaccredited school, college, or university, its credits are accepted, GO transfer, by rot lees than thane institutions which have been accredited by a State -recognized or nationally recognized accrediting agency or body, for credit an the ease basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited. Acceptance of credits= transfer includes, in addition to acceptance of laterally transferred credits hawses similar educational Institutions cceptance of credits completed In an Institution at a lower grade level for entrance loco an institution at a higher grade level.