As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Board of Administration provided for in Article XIV of the plan.
Computed to the nearest 1/12 year, time commencing when a person qualifies as an employee under the plan pursuant to the definition of "employee" below and ending with the date upon which an employee ceases to be an employee as defined below, subject to the limitations set forth in Article XVIII.
An employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the Town during
all periods in which the person is in an employment relation with
the Town; is on military leave, subject to the approval of the Board;
or is on approved sick leave, not to exceed one year.
An employee, other than secretarial employees of the Board of
Education, whose service was previously excluded from his credited
service under the definition of employee may purchase an amount of
credited service (not to exceed the number of years of service previously
excluded) at the cost of 5% of the employee's current base rate of
annual earnings multiplied by the number of years of credited service
desired to be purchased. An employee shall have 30 days to accept
the Town's determination of the cost of purchasing such years of credited
service and, upon acceptance, shall have 12 months to pay for such
credited service through payroll withholding. Credit for such service
shall only be given when the full payment has been made.
Employees with military service prior to their credited service
with the Town may purchase years of credited service for such years
served in the military. The entire cost of purchasing such service,
as determined by the actuary for the plan, shall be borne by the employee.
School secretarial employees of the Board of Education may purchase years of service previously excluded from their credited service under the definition of "employee" as are necessary to meet the vesting requirements of Article XVII of this plan. The cost of purchasing such service, as determined by the actuary for the plan, shall be borne equally by the Town and by the employee.
Any person, other than a police employee or an employee of
the Farmington Village Green and Library Association, who, on or after
the effective date, is an employee of the Town; provided, however,
that the term shall exclude those who regularly perform services for
the Town for less than 30 hours per week and with less than 1,500
hours per year, except for secretarial and nursing employees of the
Board of Education, who shall be considered "employees" under the
plan if they work more than 30 hours per week and more than 1,000
hours per year. An elected official who is an employee of the Town
and meets the above qualifications shall be considered an "employee"
under the meaning of this definition. All teaching personnel of the
Education Department shall be excluded. Each "employee" shall qualify
as an "employee" under the plan on the employee's date of hire. Under
prior plan provisions, an employee qualified as an "employee" on the
later of the employee's date of hire or the employee's twenty-fifth
birthday, except that an employee who was hired on or after July 1,
1983, qualified as an "employee" under the plan from his date of hire.
An employee who was affected by such prior plan requirements shall
qualify as an "employee" retroactive to such employee's date of hire;
provided, however, that credited service for such period of retroactive
participation in the plan shall be subject to the rules set forth
in the definition of "credited service" above.
[Amended 12-11-2018; 10-13-2020]
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Effective July 1, 2010, SEIU members hired after this date will
not be eligible to be a part of this plan.
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Effective July 1, 2011, AFSCME members hired after this date
will not be eligible to be a part of this plan.
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Effective July 1, 2011, unaffiliated employees hired after this
date will not be eligible to be a part of this plan.
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Effective July 1, 2019, Farmington Public Schools Employees
United, ATF, members hired after this date will not be eligible to
be a part of this plan.
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Effective July 1, 2020, Farmington school nurses hired after
this date will not be eligible to be a part of this plan.
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An employee who is a regular full-time member of the Farmington
Fire Department. Fire employees hired after July 15, 2012, shall at
the time of employment, have the option of participating in the Town
of Farmington Employee Pension Plan or an alternative defined contribution
plan offered by the Town. The decision by the employee shall be final
and cannot be changed once put into effect.
[Amended 12-18-2012]
An employee who is a regular full-time permanent investigating
and uniformed member of the Farmington Police Department having the
authority to exercise police powers.
