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18 <br /> <br />Section 17.2. Asserting Appeal Rights: If an application is not approved. The Board of <br />Trustees shall return the application to the applicant within thirty (30) days. noting <br />thereon, with particularity, to which requirements the applicant has not met. Thereafter, <br />the applicant shall be furnished with the opportunity to be heard by the full Board of <br />Trustees, on the question of whether the applicant meets all of the eligibility <br />requirements. The member shall indicate that the member intends to appeal by furnishing <br />the Board of Trustees with a written intent to appeal that is filed with the Secretary of the <br />association within thirty (30) days of receiving an adverse determination. The intent to <br />appeal shall be certified by the member. <br /> <br />Section 17.3. Procedure: Upon receipt of the written intent to appeal, the Board of <br />Trustees shall hold a special meeting within sixty (60) days of receipt of the written intent <br />to appeal. Timely notice of the meeting shall be given to the member at least fifteen (15) <br />days prior to the special meeting. The member shall have the reasonable opportunity to <br />be heard by the Board of Trustees at the special meeting with regard to the negative <br />determination. The board reserves the right to engage the services of a mediator or <br />arbitrator, acceptable to both parties, at any time during the appeal. The mediator or <br />arbitrator shall be selected from the Rule 114 Supreme Court Roster. The cost of the <br />mediator or arbitrator shall be split in half among both parties. <br /> <br /> <br />ARTICLE XVIII <br />LiMitS ON BENEfitS <br />Section 18.1. Domestic Relations Order: A domestic relations order shall be accepted <br />by the plan administrator if in compliance with state and federal law. No benefits shall be <br />paid under a domestic relations order which requires the plan to provide any type or form <br />of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the Plan or under state law. <br /> <br />Section 18.2. Garnishment, judgment or legal process: No service pension or ancillary <br />benefits paid or payable from the special fund of a relief association to any person <br />receiving or entitled to receive a service pension or ancillary benefits shall be subject to <br />garnishment, judgment, execution, or other legal process, except as provided in Minn. <br />Stat. §§518.58 ,or 518.581., or 518.611. <br /> <br />Section 18.3. Assignments: No person entitled to a service pension or ancillary benefits <br />from the special fund of a relief association may assign any service pension or ancillary <br />benefit payments, nor shall the association have the authority to recognize any <br />assignment or pay over any sum which has been assigned. <br /> <br />Section 18.4. Limits on Pensions: No provision, which places limits on benefits, as <br />contained within Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code shall be exceeded. Plan <br />participants cannot receive an annual benefit greater than the amount specified in Section <br />415 of the code as may subsequently be amended. <br /> <br /> <br />ARTICLE XIX