HomeMy WebLinkAbout17983 ORD - 12/14/1983AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL DISABILITY
BENEFITS FUND OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM BY
ALL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT WHICH NOW PARTICIPATE
IN THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM; PROVIDING FOR
PAYMENT OF THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTIONS ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH
PARTICIPATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, has
heretofore elected to have the employees of all departments of the city
government participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System (such
departments hereinbelow called "participating departments"), and
WHEREAS, Section 62.003 of Title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of
Texas, 1925, as amended, allows municipalities participating in said System to
provide for additional disability benefits for service connected disabilities by
electing to participate in the Supplemental Disability Benefits Fund; and
WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas,
finds that it will be in the public interest to provide for participation of
employees of such departments in said Supplemental Disability Benefits Fund:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, by its City
Council hereby elects to have the employees of all participating departments of
said city (as above defined) participate in and be covered by the Supplemental
Disability Benefits Fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, as provided
by Sections 62.003, 64.401 through 64.404, 65.313, and 65.408 of Title 1106,
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended; and all of the benefits and
obligations of participation in said Fund are hereby accepted by the City as to
such employees.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Finance is hereby directed to notify
the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System that the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas, has elected to participate and have the employees of the
above mentioned departments participate in the Supplemental Disability Benefits
Fund of said System.
SECTION 3. Each person who becomes an employee of any participating
department on or after the effective date of participation of such department in
said Fund shall as a condition of his employment be covered into the
Supplemental Disability Benefits Fund of said System. The City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, may in the future refuse to add new departments or new employees
to said Fund, but shall never discontinue as to any members who are covered into
the Fund.
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SECTION 4. That the Director of Finance is hereby directed to remit
monthly to the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System at its
office in Austin, Texas, as the City's contributions to the Supplemental
Disability Benefits Fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, such
percentage of earnings of the above-mentioned employees of said city as may be
fixed by the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System,
provided that the rate of contribution to said Fund shall not exceed one-half of
one percentum (k%) of the earnings of the employees of said city who are covered
under said Fund; and such official shall make for the City such reports as the
Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System may prescribe.
SECTION 5. Participation of the above-mentioned employees in the
Supplemental Disability Benefits shall be effective on the 1st day of January,
1984.
SECTION 6. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council
members, copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the immediate
need for efficient and effective administration of City affairs by electing to
participate in the above-mentioned Supplemental Disability Benefits, such
finding of an emergency is made and declared requiring suspension of the Charter
rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or resolutions at three
regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed and shall take effect upon
first reading as an emergency measure this the 14th day of December, 1983.
ATTEST:
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APPROVED:
City Attorney
THE CIT OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
/41 day of zes.,7 , 198
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance
or resolution, an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule
as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or resolutions at three
regular meetings; I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule
and pass this ordinance or resolution finally on the date it is introduced,
or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully, Respectfully,
Council Members
MAYOR
THE C TY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The above ordinance was passed +y the following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner .
David Eerlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Joe McComb
Frank Mendez
Mary Pat Slavik
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