Ordinance No. 965W
ORDINANCE NO. 965
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE SUP-
PLEMENTAL BENEFITS FUND OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL
RETIREMENT SYSTEM BY ALL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY
GOVERNMENT WHICH NOW PARTICIPATE IN THE TEXAS
MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND PROVIDING FOR
PAYMENT OF THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTIONS ON ACCOUNT
OF SUCH PARTICIPATION.
WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Baytown,
Texas has heretofore elected to have the employees of all
departments of the city government participate in the Texas
Municipal Retirement System (such departments being herein -
before called "participating departments ") ; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 312, Acts Regular Session, 56th
Legislature provides for establishment in said System of a
Supplemental Benefits Fund to provide for additional disability
benefits for service connected disabilities; and
WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Baytown,
Texas finds that it will be in the public interest to provide
for participation of employees of such departments in said
Supplemental Benefits Fund; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: The City of Baytown, Texas, by its
City Council hereby elects to have the employees of all par-
ticipating departments of said City (as above defined) par-
ticipate in and be covered by the Supplemental Benefits Fund
of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, as provided by
Chapter 312, Acts Regular Session, 56th Legislature; and all
the benefits and obligations of participation in said Fund
are hereby accepted by the city as to such employees.
Section 2: The City Manager is hereby directed
to notify the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal
Retirement System that the City of Baytown, Texas, has elected
to participate and have the employees of the above mentioned
departments participate in the Supplemental 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
Benefits Fund of said System. The City of Baytown, Texas,
may in the future refuse to add new departments or new em-
ployees to said Fund, but shall never discontinue as to any
members who are covered into the Fund.
Section 4: The City Clerk 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 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 (1/2%) of the
earnings of the employees of said city who are covered under
said Fund; and such official shall make for the City such re-
ports as the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retire-
ment System may prescribe.
Section 5: Participation of the above mentioned
employees in the Supplemental Benefits Fund shall be effective
January 1, 1960, or on such later date as the Board of Trustees
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of the Texas Municipal Retirement System shall declare said
Fund to be operative.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative
vote of the City Council of the City of Baytown, this the
V-38MR6191; "D
William R. Laughlin"', City Attorney