Subd. 1.

When a service pensioner, disability pensioner, or deferred pensioner, or an active member of such relief association dies, leaving a surviving spouse, one or more surviving child, or both, such surviving spouse and said child or children shall be entitled to a pension or pensions as follows:

1. (1) To such surviving spouse a pension of not less than $50 and not to exceed $100 per month, as the bylaws of such association shall provide, for the surviving spouse's natural life; provided, however, that if the surviving spouse shall remarry, then such pension shall cease and terminate as of the date of the surviving spouse's remarriage.
2. (2) To such child or children, if the surviving spouse of the member is living and has not remarried, a pension of not to exceed $25 per month for each child up to the time each child reaches the age of not less than 16, and not to exceed 18 years of age, which pension and age shall be fixed by the bylaws of such association. Provided, the total pension hereunder for the surviving spouse and children of said deceased member shall not exceed the sum of $150 per month.
3. (3) A child or children of a deceased member receiving a pension or pensions hereunder shall, after the death or remarriage of the surviving spouse of the member, be entitled to receive a pension or pensions in such amount or amounts as may be fixed by the bylaws of such association, until they reach the age of not less than 16 and not more than 18 years, as the bylaws of each association may provide; but the total amount of such pension or pensions hereunder for any child or children shall not exceed the sum of $150 per month.

Subd. 2. Definitions.

1. (a) "Surviving spouse" means a person who became the member's legally married spouse during or prior to the time the member was on the payroll of any such police department as a police officer, and remained such continuously after their marriage until the member's death, without having been granted a marriage dissolution or legal separation, and who, in case the deceased member was a service or deferred pensioner, was legally married to the member before the member's retirement from the police department; and who, in any case, was residing with the member at the time of the member's death. No temporary absence for purposes of business, health or pleasure shall constitute a change of residence for purposes of this clause.
2. (b) "Surviving child" means any child born the issue of the lawful marriage of a service, disability or deferred pensioner, or of a deceased active member.