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Ord 2049 10/14/1963 ORDINANCE NO. 2049 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL 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 Wichita Falls, Texas has heretofore elected to have the employees of certain departments of the City government participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement Sys- tem, and WHEREAS, Chapter 312 , Acts Regular Session, 56th Legislature pro- vides 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 Wichita Falls, Texas finds that it will be in the public interest to provide for participa- tion of employees Of such departments in said Supplemental Benefits Fund; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS : SECTION 1. The City of Wichita Falls, Texas, by its Board of Aldermen hereby elects to have the employees of such departments of said City participate 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 all employees. SECTION 2 . The City Manager is hereby directed to notify the :oard of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System that the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, has elected to participate and have the employees of such departments participate in the Supplemental Benefits Fund of said System. SECTION 3. Each person who becomes an employee of any 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 Wichita Falls , 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 SECTION 4. 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 - 2 to the Supplemental Benefits Fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, such percentage of earnings of said 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 reports as the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System may prescribe. . SECTION 5. Participation of theabove-mentioned employees in the Supplemental Benefits Fund shall be effective January 1, 1964, or on such later date as the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retire- ment System shall declare said Fund to be operative. PASSED AND APPROVED this the 14th day of October , 1963. ; , f t : 7 : - 1( , . , 4wiro . orMOR A T T E S T : r / C i t y C l e r k