HomeMy WebLinkAbout18514 ORD - 10/16/1984AN ORDINANCE
AFFECTING PARTICIPATION OF CITY EMPLOYEES IN THE TEXAS
MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM; GRANTING THE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS,
CREDITS AND BENEFITS AUTHORIZED BY SECTIONS 62.105 AND
64.202 OF TITLE 110B, REVISED CIVIL STATUTES OF TEXAS, 1925,
AS AMENDED; PROVIDED THAT SUCH RIGHTS SHALL BE SUPPLEMENTARY
TO THOSE HERETOFORE ALLOWED AND THAT ARE IN FORCE ON THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE; ALLOWING CERTAIN EMPLOYEES
OF THE CITY, WHO PERFORMED OR HEREAFTER PERFORM ACTIVE
SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES (OR THEIR RESERVES OR
AUXILIARIES) OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER HONORABLE CONDITIONS
DURING PERIODS OF CONFLICT WITH FOREIGN FORCES, TO APPLY AND
MAKE DEPOSITS FOR AND TO RECEIVE SPECIAL CREDIT WITH THE
TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR LIMITED PORTIONS OF
SUCH MILITARY SERVICE, AND PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT BY THE CITY
OF ADDITIONAL DEPOSITS TO THE SYSTEM ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH
SERVICE CREDIT; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 62.105 and 64.202
of Subtitle G of Title 1108, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended,
which Subtitle shall herein be referred to as the "TMRS ACT," the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, adopts the following provisions affecting participation of its
employees in the Texas Municipal Retirement System:
(a) Each person who becomes an employee of any
participating department of this City and who is not already
a member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System shall
become a member of the System as a condition of employment,
provided such person is then under sixty (60) years of age;
(b) Any member, after one (1) year from the effective date
of his or her membership in the System, shall be eligible
for service retirement if he or she has attained the age of
fifty (50) years and has completed twenty-five (25) years of
creditable service with one or more municipalities that have
authorized eligibility under Section 64.202 of the TMRS Act
or under Section XX of former Article 6243h, Vernon's Texas
Civil Statutes, or if he or she has attained the age of
sixty (60) years and has completed at least ten (10) years
of creditable service with one or more municipalities that
have authorized eligibility under Section 64.202 of the TMRS
Act or under Section XX of said former Article 6243h;
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(c) The membership of any person who has completed at least
ten (10) years of creditable service with participating
municipalities that have authorized eligibility under
Section 64.202 of the TMRS Act (or under Section XX of said
former Article 6243h) shall not terminate because of absence
from service; and
(d) Any person who is an employee of a participating
department of this municipality at the effective date of
this ordinance, but who at the date of his or her employment
was under sixty (60) years of age but did not become a
member of Texas Municipal Retirement System because he or
she was then above the maximum age then prescribed by law
for initial membership in the System, shall become a member
of the System at the effective date of this ordinance,
unless he or she has already become a member under other
provisions of the governing Act, and shall be allowed prior
service credit for each month of creditable service
performed for this municipality subsequent to the date such
person was precluded from membership and prior to the
effective date of his or her membership. Such prior service
credit shall be calculated using the same percentage of base
prior service credit as was most recently used in
calculating prior service credits or updated service credits
in said System for current member employees of this City.
SECTION 2. The rights, credits and benefits hereinabove authorized
shall be in addition to the plan provisions heretofore adopted and in force at
the effective date of this ordinance pursuant to the TMRS Act.
SECTION 3. Pursuant to Subchapter F of Chapter 63, Title 1106,
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, the City of Corpus Christi hereby
elects to allow eligible members in its employment to establish credit in the
Texas Municipal Retirement System for active military service performed as a
member of the armed forces or armed forces reserves of the United States or an
auxiliary of the armed forces or armed forces reserves, during a period in which
the United States is or was involved in a state of conflict with foreign forces.
Eligible members as used herein shall be those employees meeting the criteria
set forth in subsection (b) of Section 63.501 of said Subchapter F, and the
amount and use of creditable military service shall be as further set forth in
that Subchapter.
SECTION 4. In order to establish credit for military service
hereunder, a member must deposit with the Texas Municipal Retirement System (in
that member's individual account in the Employees Saving Fund), before the first
anniversary of the effective date of this ordinance or before the first
anniversary of the date the member becomes eligible to establish the credit
(whichever is later) an amount equal to the number of months for which credit is
sought, multiplied by $15.00, and the City must contribute an amount equal to
the amount required of the member, multiplied by the City's current service
matching percentage in effect on the date the member applies for credit
hereunder. The City of Corpus Christi agrees to pay into its account in the
Municipality Accumulation Fund all sums which become due hereunder as a result
of the granting of such credit.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall become effective on the first day of
January, 1985, provided that it has previously been determined by the Actuary
for the System that all obligations of the City to the municipality accumulation
fund, including obligations hereby undertaken, can be funded by the City within
its maximum contribution rate and within its amortization period.
SECTION 6. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council
members, copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the need of
adopting the abovementioned provisions to the Texas Municipal Retirement System
at the earliest practicable date, 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 16th day of October, 1984.
ATTEST:
4i!c.retary''iteli MAYO
APPROVED: i,DAY OF OCTOBER, 1984
J. BRUCE A4YCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By
Assistant Ci��
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
, 1984
(,'H^ day of
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,
Council Members
Respectfully,
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The above ordinance was passed y the following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
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David Berlanga, Sr.
Welder Brown
Leo Guerrero
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Joe McComb
Frank Mendez �,//�
Mary Pat Slavik 7L/
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