[Adopted 9-16-1969 as Part II of the Appendix of the 1969
Code]
The Borough of Upland, having placed all of
its employees, as far as they are eligible, under the Federal Social
Security Act, hereby elects to join the Municipal Employees' Retirement
System, established by the Act of June 4, 1943, P.L. 886, as last
amended by the Act of August 24, 1963, No. 485, and does hereby agree to be bound by all the requirements
and provisions of said Act and to assume all obligations, financial
and otherwise, placed upon member municipalities by said Act.
Membership for elected officials shall be prohibited
and membership for employees paid on a per diem basis shall be prohibited.
Officers and employees paid wholly on a fee basis shall not be eligible
for membership in the system.
Credit for prior service toward the municipal
annuity of each original member shall be for all years of service
to the Borough of Upland. The Borough of Upland does hereby assume
the liability for payment of 100% of the member's contributions for
all years of service toward the member's annuity for the prior service
of each original member.
Payment for the prior service noted in §
24-3 hereof shall be made by the Borough of Upland in accordance with Section 14 of said Act and may be spread over a period of 30 years if the Borough of Upland so chooses and with the consent of the Municipal Employees' Retirement Board.
The Borough of Upland does hereby incorporate
said Municipal Employees' Retirement Law, as last amended by the Act
of August 24, 1963, No. 485, as a part of this article insofar as
said Act, as amended, applies to a member municipality, having accepted
the options set out in this article.
The Borough of Upland does hereby elect to extend
the provisions of Section 20.1 of the Municipal Employees' Retirement
Law, Act of June 4, 1943, P.L. 886, added by the Act of August 24,
1963, No. 485, so that the contributors to the retirement system shall
have the options and enjoy the protections of the provisions set forth
in Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 20.1 of the Municipal Employees'
Retirement Law, and Section 20.1 is hereby incorporated and made a
part hereof by reference thereto.
A duly certified copy of this article shall
be filed with the Municipal Employees' Retirement Board of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and membership for the Borough of Upland in the Municipal
Employees' Retirement System shall become effective the first day
of October 1965.
[Adopted 7-3-1984 as Ord. No. 3-1984 (Ch.
35A of the 1969 Code)]
The Borough of Upland hereby establishes and
adopts a pension plan for its full-time nonuniform employees of the
Borough.
The plan adopted is the Pennsylvania State Association
of Boroughs' Pension Plan and Trust in effect on the date of this
article and as amended from time to time in the future.
The proper officers of the Borough are hereby
directed and authorized to execute the joinder agreement with the
Trustees of the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs' Pension
Plan and Trust; a copy of said joinder agreement is attached to this
article and shall be adopted by reference as a part of this article.
The Borough shall perform all of the duties
and responsibilities assigned to it and may, at the discretion of
Council, exercise all powers vested in it by the joinder agreement.
The nonuniformed employees of the Borough shall
have all rights and duties and may exercise any or all options granted
them by the terms of the joinder agreement.