6-54-801 - Part Definitions.
6-54-801. Part Definitions.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Department means the fire department or police department of any municipality that pays wages to its employees for services rendered;
(2) Employee means any person who, on the adoption of the provisions of this part, is a paid employee in the fire department or police department of any municipality and a member of a municipal retirement system or pension plan;
(3) Municipality means any municipality having its own employees retirement system or pension plan;
(4) Retired employee means any person who has been a paid employee in the fire department or police department of any municipality and who, on the adoption of the provisions of this part, is receiving from such municipality a retirement allowance based upon such person's service in such department;
(5) Retirement allowance means the monthly payment for life made to a retired employee or the retired employee's survivors or beneficiaries under the provisions of a municipal employees retirement system or pension plan;
(6) Retirement system or pension plan means an existing system or plan by which a municipality is paying or will pay the retired employees of its fire department or police department a retirement allowance after such employees have complied with certain conditions or requirements of employment or service to the municipality; and
(7) Survivor or beneficiary includes any person, who is receiving, or who is entitled to receive, an allowance or survivor benefit from a retirement system that is based upon the retirement allowance of an employee or a retired employee.
[Acts 1971, ch. 397, § 1; T.C.A., § 6-658.]