87.600. Proposed change in benefits--notice and meeting with representative of members required. - Missouri Statutes

Proposed change in benefits--notice and meeting with representativeof members required.

87.600. Whenever any municipality having a population ofmore than four hundred fifty thousand inhabitants and less thansix hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the last federaldecennial census, has established a pension plan for thepensioning of the salaried members, and the widows and minorchildren of deceased members, of an organized fire department, nochanges shall be made in the present and future benefits payableto such members or the widows and minor children of deceasedmembers, except changes required to establish and maintainactuarial soundness of such pension plan as determined by theactuaries for the system and the members, unless an itemized listof the proposed changes and the reasons therefor is sent by mailto the designated representative of the members at least thirtydays before the proposed effective date of such proposed changesand said municipality or its designated representative orrepresentatives shall meet, confer, and discuss such proposedchanges with the designated representative of the members.

(L. 1967 p. 167 § 1)