Ordinance No. 3,7270
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0?OINANCE NO. 3727
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR, UNDER THE ACT GOVER14 M
THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM, PARTICIPATION OF
THE CITY OF BAYTOWN IN THE SLN"- E1rFNTAL DEATH BE NU ITS
FUND TO PROVIDE CERTAIN IN-SERVICE nEATH BENEFITS FOR
EMPLOYEES, AND DEATH BENEFITS FOR ANNUITANTS 11HOSE LIST
EMPLOYMENT BEFORE RETIREMENT WAS WITH THE CITY OF
SAYTOWN; CANCELING PARTICPATION 1N THE TEXAS MIAO pAL
LEAGUE JOWT INS1.111AN E TRUST TERM LIE l{1SRANCE pOL.ICY;
AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR SUCH ACT&IK
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13E IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
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Section 1: That the City of Baytown hereby elects to participate in the
Supplemental Death Benefits Find of the Texas Municipal Retirement System for the
purpose of providing in- service death benefits for each of the City's employees who
are members of said System, and for the purpose of providing post- retirement death
benefits for annuitants whose Ia6t covered employment was as an employee of the
City, in the amounts and on the terms provided for in Sections 62.004, 64.601
through 64,605, 65.314, 65.409, and 65.502 of Title 110x, Revised Civil Statutes of
Texas, 1925, es amended.
Section ks The City of Baytown is hereby authorized and directed to notify
the Director of the System of adoption of this ordinance, and of the participation
of the City of said Fund.
Section 3: That upon the death of a retired member eligible to receive the
supplemental death benefit described above, the administration is authorized and
directed to pay to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries of such deceased
member the amount of $500.00 from the General Fund as an additional death
benefit. However, in no ca;.e shall this benefit, when added to the benefit described
in Section 1 above, result in the total supplemental death benefits contemplated
under this ordinance being in excess of $3,000.00. Should the total of the two
payments be in excess of $3,000.00, the payment made by the City shall be reduced
by an amount equal to the amount by which the two payments exceed $3,000.00.
Section 4: Participation of the above mentioned employees and annuitants in
the Supplemental Death Benefits Fund shall cancel participation in the Texas
Municipal League Joint Insurance Trust Term Life Insurance Policy.
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Section 5.- Participation of the above mentioned employees and annuitants in
the Supplemental Death Benefits Fund shall be effective on the ]at day of January,
1964.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmeptive vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, this the 14th day of December, 1963.
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