A.  The provisions of the pension and relief fund established by La. Rev. Stat. 11:2171 through 2184 may be amended by action of the legislature in the same manner as any other statute may be amended by the legislature.  In addition, action of the board with respect to the payment of cost-of-living adjustments, with respect to the payment of employee contributions, and with respect to actuarial assumptions, shall be considered amendments to the provisions of the pension and relief fund.  

B.  No amendment to this pension and relief fund shall operate to deprive any member of a benefit to which he is already entitled.  In the case of any merger or consolidation with, or transfer of assets or liabilities to, any other pension and relief fund or retirement system, each member in the pension and relief fund would, if the pension and relief fund is then terminated, receive a benefit immediately after the merger, consolidation, or transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit he would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation, or transfer, if the pension and relief fund had then terminated.  

C.  Upon the termination or partial termination of the pension and relief fund or upon the discontinuance of contributions by the employer without formal termination of the pension and relief fund, the board of trustees shall re-value and re-determine the benefit of each member; and the entire benefit of each member may be paid or commence to be paid and distributed to such member, or in the case of his death before such distribution, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by such member, or may be held until payment otherwise due under the provisions of the pension and relief fund.  A member’s right to his benefit is not conditioned upon a sufficiency of plan assets in the event of termination.  

Acts 1990, No. 62, §1; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 33:1451.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.