Before paying any service pensions or retirement benefits under section 424A.02 or before becoming entitled to receive any amounts of fire state aid upon transmittal from a contracting municipality under section 477B.04, subdivision 3, an independent nonprofit firefighting corporation shall establish a volunteer firefighters relief association governed by this chapter.
Minn. Stat. § 424A.07
1979 c 201 s 17; 1981 c 224 s 274; 2009 c 169 art 10s 44