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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02644 ORD - 11/22/19490 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM BY TEE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; PROVIDING FOR AND ELECTING TO BANE ALL OF THE EMPLOYEBS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATE IN SUCH SYSTEMS AND ACCEPT- ING ALL OF THE OBLIGATIONS AND BENEFITS OF SAID SYSTEM, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Constitution of the State of Texas was amended on November 7. 1%4. by the addition of Section 51 -f, Article III, which authorized the legislature to establish s Statewide retirement end dis- ability pension system for City employees; and, WEEREAS, the 50th Legislature of the State of Tome enacted House Bill 29 by Parkhouee, known as the Texas Municipal Retirement System and being Article 6PI& of Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, which authorizes the governing body of each city or town to elect, at its option, to have one or more of the city departments participate in such system; and, WHEREAS, municipal employees are not covered by Federal Social Security, the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, finds that it will be in the public interest for the City to have its employees participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement Systems NON, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; SECTION 1. That, oa behalf of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, the City Council hereby exercises its option and elects to have the City and all of the employees of the Police Department of the City of Corpus Christi participate in the Tease Municipal Retirement System as provided in House Bill 29, Chapter 75, page 108, ;tots of the 50th Legislature in 1947, being Article 6043h of Vernonts Annotated Civil Statutes; and all of the benefits end obligations of such system are hereby accepted. SECTION 2, That, the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi is hereby directed to notify the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement Watem that the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has elected to participate and have the employees of the Police Department of the City of Corpus Christi participate in such system. SECTION 3. Each person who become an employee of the Police Department, on or after the effective date of participation of said Depart- ment, shall be included within mid subject to the provisions of the Texas Municipal Retirement System beginning upon the date such person becomes en "employee" as defined in subsection 114, Section 2 of such system, SECTION 1. That, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, may in the future by vote of the City Council elect to add other departments and the employees thereof of the City of Corpus Christi to participate in such system and upon such eleotion,notica of such election shall be given by the City Manager to the Board of Trustees as required by the provisions of said system. SECTION 5. That, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, may in the future refuse to add new departments or new employees to such system but shall never discontinue as to may participants except as may hereafter be provided by law. SECTION 6. That, the Director of Finance is hereby directed to remit to the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, at its office in Austin, Texas, the City's proper contributions to the system and the amounts which shall be deducted from the compensation or payroll of employees, all of said remittances to be dispatched as required by said Board under the provisions of Chapter 75, Acts of the 50th Legis- lature of the State of Texas, 1947, and the said Director of Finance is hereby authorised and directed to ascertain and certify officially on be- half of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, the prior service rendered to said municipality by each of the employees of the police Department and such other departments as may elect to participate in said system, and the average prior service compensation received by each, and to mako and axe - outs all other reports and certificates, which may be required of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, under the provisions of Chapter 216 Acts Regular Session 50th Legislature or the rules and regulations of the Board of Trustees of the Texas lEmicipal Retirement System. SECTION 7. The fact that municipal employees are not covered by Federal Social Security and that it will be in the public interest for the City to have its employees participate in the Texas Muni.oipal Retirement System at as early a date as possible, particularly the Police Department, creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinanoa or resolution shall be passed finally on the data it is introduced and that Duch ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emsrgenoy and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter rule be suspendeds end 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 pass- age, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO MDAIMED. PASSED AND APPROVED this Aagaat, A. D. 1949. Lacy of ST: n i y ors Dry City of Corpus Ctristi, Texas APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: orney t Corpus Christi, Texas N6a�eg� as r Yl< 1949 TO THE 1MRS OF TBE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gantlemenr For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore- going Ordinance, a public emergency and an imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no Ordinance or Resolution shall be gassed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such Ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meet- ings of the City Council, I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement sad pass this Ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, MAYDR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote= Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Barney Cott nn�+� Sydney E. Herndon 4v- George George L. Losman (�/,�( J The above Ordinance was passed by the following votes Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. LoTeam AL_ a(A