Non-Duty Death Retirement Allowance, Automatic Provisions. Any bargaining unit member who continues in the employ of the County for more than ten years and has not nominated a beneficiary as provided in the Macomb County Employees' Retirement Ordinance, and (1) dies while in County employment and (2) leaves a spouse, the spouse shall immediately receive a retirement allowance computed in the same manner in all respects as if the member had (1) retired the day preceding the date of his/her death, notwithstanding that he/she might not have attained age 60 years, (2) elected Option A in Section 26 of the Macomb County Employees' Retirement Ordinance and (3) nominated his/her spouse as beneficiary.
