[§87-25.5] Reciprocal beneficiary family coverage defined; reciprocal beneficiary employees, State and counties, and fund responsibility costs. (a) The board of trustees shall establish a reciprocal beneficiary family coverage health benefits plan for an employee who is a reciprocal beneficiary under chapter 572C and elects to enroll in reciprocal beneficiary family coverage.

(b) As used in this section, reciprocal beneficiary family coverage means coverage under a health benefits plan that insures, originally or upon subsequent amendment, an employee who is a reciprocal beneficiary, the other party to the employee's reciprocal beneficiary relationship, and any dependent-beneficiary of the employee, any unmarried child of the non-employee reciprocal beneficiary under age nineteen, or a surviving beneficiary of the employee.