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The Board of Trustees shall establish from time to time the form of Application required to be submitted with such supporting documents as may be necessary, by an applicant for death or service pension benefits. In the event that the Board of Trustees shall determine that payments made to a Pensioner, a Surviving Spouse or to a minor child or minor children, in error, the Board of Trustees shall be entitled to reclaim the erroneous payments without interest and the recipient by acceptance of the payment, agrees to forthwith reimburse the Association to the full extent of payments made in error. All applications for benefits must include a certified copy of the death certificate of the pensioner. Section 44 Lump Sum Service Pension The Board of Trustees is authorized, at the option of the eligible retiring member, to pay a service pension to the retiring member in a lump sum, or upon written election of the retiring member, in up to three (3) consecutive annual installments. The amount of the payment pursuant to this Section 44, whether payable in a lump sum or on an installment basis shall be determined by reference to Minnesota Statutes §424A.02 Subds. 3 and 8 and shall be the aggregate of the Maximum Lump Sum Service Pension amount payable for each Year of Service as determined and adjusted therein for installment payment.- Any person electing to receive, a lump sum or installment distribution as provided herein, shall thereby waive any right or claim to share in increases in the pension benefits payable, if any. In the event that the Pensioner dies after making such election but before receiving the lump sum, or dies in the course of the three (3) year installment payment period, the benefit so elected shall be paid, as elected, to the Surviving Spouse. If there is not a Surviving Spouse, it shall be paid, as elected, to the surviving minor children pro rata. If there shall be no Surviving Spouse or minor children, payment of benefits shall not be made or shall cease, if previously commenced. Section 44A Less Than 20 Years Service Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Bylaws, a member who separates from active service and who has been a member of this Association for at least ten (10) years, but less than twenty (20) years, and who has completed not less than ten (10) years of active service as an active firefighter, shall upon attaining the age of fifty (50) years be entitled to receive a lump sum service pension in such amount as is earned to the date of separation from active service for each full year of service completed as follows: COMPLETED YEARS OF SERVICE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and thereafter PRO RATE SERVICE PENSION AMOUNT 11 60% 64% 68% 72% 76% 80% 84% 88% 92% 96% 100%