(1) The board shall institute practices and procedures as it deems necessary to collect money due a plan administered by the fire and police pension association as determined in section 31-31-1201, including but not limited to withholding subsequent benefit payments to which the member or beneficiary is or becomes entitled, applying the amount withheld as an offset against the amount due, and referring an account to a collection agency or attorney for collection. If, after due notice, any member or beneficiary defaults in any repayment of overpaid benefits, the amount due may be collected by civil action, which shall include the right of attachment in the name of the association. The board may allow installment payments of amounts due based on equitable considerations.
Reasonable fees for collection, including attorney fees, as determined by the fire andpolice pension association, shall be added to the amount of debt. The debtor shall be liable for repayment of the total of the amount outstanding plus the collection fee.
A certified copy of any final determination of the board ordering the repayment ofoverpayments pursuant to this article may be filed with the clerk of the district court of any judicial district in this state at any time after the period provided for appeal or seeking review of the order has passed without appeal or review being sought or, if appeal or review is sought, after the order has been finally affirmed and all appellate remedies and all opportunities for review have been exhausted. The fire and police pension association shall at the same time file a certificate to the effect that the time for appeal or review has passed without appeal or review being undertaken or that the order has been finally affirmed with all appellate remedies and all opportunities for review having been exhausted. The clerk of the district court shall record the order and the association's certificate in the judgment book of said court and entry thereof made in the judgment docket, and it shall thereafter have all the effect of a judgment of the district court, and execution may issue thereon out of said court as in other cases. Any such order may be filed by and in the name of the association.
Source: L. 2008: Entire part added, p. 161, § 2, effective August 5.