MWRA RETIREMENT SYSTEM

• Any member, upon his written notice on a prescribed form filed with the retirement board prior to this death, may nominate, and from time-to-time change, one or more beneficiaries to receive, in designated proportions, any sum becoming payable under the provision of this subdivision on his death; provided, that any such beneficiary nominated by a minor shall be of his kindred
  
  
• The payment of any such sum or portion thereof to this beneficiary or beneficiaries of record surviving at his death shall bar the recovery of such payment by any other person.

• If there is no beneficiary of record or if any beneficiary of record is not living at the death of such member, such sum or the amount which would have been paid to such beneficiary if they had survived such member, as the case may be, shall be paid to the legal representatives of such member; provided, that if any such sum or amount does not exceed three hundred dollars, and if there has been no written demand upon the Retirement Board for payment thereof by a duly appointed executor or administrator of the estate of such member and the Retirement Board has not otherwise been informed that probate proceedings relative to such estate have been commenced, such sum or amount may be paid after the expiration of ninety days from the date of the death of such member, to the person or persons appearing in the judgement of the Retirement Boad to be entitled thereto.
  
  
• The payment of any such sum or amount in such a manner, or to the natural or legal guardian or conservator of a minor or incompetent beneficiary, shall constitute a legal settlement of all claims on account thereof to the extent of such payment and shall bar recovery of such payment by any other person.
  
  
• Payment shall not be made under the subdivision if the deceased member is survived by a beneficiary appointed under Option (d) of subdivison (2) of Section 12, who is eligible to receive the allowance provided by said option, nor if the deceased member is survived by a person eligible to receive the allowance provided for in Section 12B, or is survived by a child eligible to receive the allowance provided in Section 12B, unless the widow or person acting for such child elects, in lieu of receiving allowances provided for in said Section 12B, to have payment of any monies due made in accordance with provisions of this paragraph.
  
  
• Beneficiary or beneficiaries nominated will receive, in the proportion designated, any sum due at your death.
  
  
• The right to change any nominated beneficiary is reserved by the member.