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AN ORDINANCE
PRESCRIBING THE MAXIMUM EARNINGS TO BE CONSIDERED
IN CALCULATING DEPOSITS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE MADE
BY REASON OF CURRENT SERVICE OF EMPLOYEES OF THIS
CITY WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIRE-
MENT SYSTEM; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SECTION 1. That annual earnings in excess of $10,800 (mtximmm,m
earnings subject to retirement deductions) which may be paid by the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas, to any of its employees who are members of the Texas
Municipal Retirement System, shall not be considered in calculating the
amount to be withheld and the deposits and contributions to be made to the
Texas Municipal Retirement System by reason of current service rendered by
such employee to this City; and the maximimm amount which shall be deducted
each month for current service deposits to said System (where such compensa-
tion is paid on a monthly basis) shall exclude payments in excess of one -
twelfth (1 /12th) of the aforesaid sum of $10,800 (maximum earnings subject to
retirement deductions) which is prescribed above as the maximum annual earnings
to be taken into account in calculating deposits and contributions on account
of current service.
SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid
or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction
it shell not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase,
word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this
City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word,
or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. The effective date of the above changes shell be August
5, 1974.
SECTION 4. The fact that there is an immediate need to make the
provisions of the foregoing ordinance effective and a need to maintain an
efficient administration of City affairs creates a public emergency and an
imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that
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no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its intro-
duction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several
meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared such emergency
and necessity to exist, and having requested the suspension of the Charter
rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction
and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the 3/E day of July, 197+•
ATTEST:
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CW Secre ^� MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
�1 DAY OF JULY, 197+:
EXEC.. ASST„ City Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
319- day of JULY , 19]x/
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall
be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or
resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore,
request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi-
nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the
City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby A IF
James T. Acuff AYE
Rev. Harold T. Branch � YE
Thomas V. Gonzales AYE
Ricardo Gonzalez A %
Gabe Lozano, Sr. YA E
J. Howard Stark AVE
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jason Luby _Q YE
James T. Acuff A M
Rev. Harold T. Branch 14 Y
Thomas V. Gonzales A YE
Ricardo Gonzalez AYE
Gabe Lozano, Sr. AYE
J. Howard Stark AYE