The board controls and manages the Firemen’s Pension and Relief Fund, makes its rules, meets quarterly, and handles benefit applications.
§3317. Board of directors; duties; meetings A. The board of directors shall have control and management of said Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund and shall make rules and regulations for the proper administration of said funds not in conflict with the provisions of this Part, shall hear and decide all applications for benefits under this Part; and its decisions on such applications shall not be subject to review or reversal except by said board itself, or upon appeal of the courts. B. The said board shall meet quarterly and a special meeting shall be called on forty-eight hours' notice by the president at the request of any three members. Any four (4) members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business. C. The said board of directors shall have the power and it shall be its duty to: (1) Make all rules and regulations necessary to the proper administration of said Fund under the provisions of the law. (2) Retain such legal, medical, clerical, or other services as may be necessary for the conduct of the affairs connected with said Fund and provide compensation for such service. (3) Cause such amounts as may be set forth in the law to be deducted from the salaries of the active participants in the Fund and paid unto the Treasury of the Fund. (4) Certify to the levying authority provided by law, the amount of revenues required and provided for, and to cause same to be collected through the proper local agency. (5) Cause the examination of every pensioner or beneficiary with a disability, at least once a year. (6) Keep all necessary records of its meeting and proceedings. (7) Cause to be posted in each station house a recapitulation of the Fund, prepared by an independent Certified Public Accountant, showing the number of pensioners, the amount of disbursements, the revenues received, and the present condition and manner of investment of the said Fund. (8) Keep a book to be known as the List of Retired Firemen. Such Book shall give a full and complete record of the action of the said board of directors in retiring or pensioning all persons under this Part, showing the names, date of entering the service of said Fire Department, date of removal from active service and the reason for such action. D. The Board shall be a quasi-judicial body and its action shall be reviewable only in the courts. Designated from Acts 1944, No. 186, §§7, 8(2) by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014. NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).