[Ord. No. 189 §§1-2, 6-6-1985; Ord. No. 271 §1, 9-1-1995; Ord. No. 339 §§1 — 4, 10-23-2001]
A. 
The City of Forsyth, Missouri, is a "Political Subdivision", as defined in Sections 70.600 through 70.755, RSMo., and hereby elects to have covered by the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement System all its eligible employees with one thousand five hundred (1,500) or more hours of annual employment and to cover under benefit program L-7 such employees of the following classes: Present and Future General Employees and Policemen, including Present and Future Policemen.
B. 
The City of Forsyth hereby elects that one hundred percent (100%) of prior employment be considered for prior service credit in computing benefits and contributions to the system, and to require no contributions from covered employees.
[Ord. No. 35, 4-25-1957]
A. 
The City of Forsyth, being a Political Subdivision of the State of Missouri (hereinafter called "the Political Subdivision"), proceeding under and by virtue of the terms of Section 105.300 to and including Section 105.445 RSMo., 1955, of the State of Missouri (hereinafter called "Section 105", and amendments thereof as the same may be now and hereafter in effect), and under and by virtue of action lawfully taken by its governing body on the twenty-second (22nd) day of April, 1957, a duly certified copy of said action being attached hereto, submits the following plan for extending the benefits of the system of Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance to all of its eligible employees and officials as authorized by Section 105 and the agreement between the State of Missouri and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, heretofore entered into, and by the Social Security Act as defined in Section 105.300 RSMo., (said Act being hereinafter collectively called "Social Security Act"), said plan to become effective as an agreement with the Office of Administration, Division of Accounting (hereinafter called "State Agency", upon the written approval of said State agency being endorsed hereon.
B. 
The benefits of the system of Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance as authorized by the agreement between the State of Missouri and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by the Federal Acts and the State Act, shall be extended to all eligible employees of the Political Subdivision, subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. 
When used in this plan and agreement the following terms mean:
EMPLOYEE
Elective or appointive officials and employees of the Political Subdivision; provided, that employees who are members of any retirement system supported wholly or in part by the State or any of its Political Subdivisions or instrumentalities are not to be included within the meaning of this term, unless they have elected to become eligible.
RETIREMENT SYSTEM
A pension, annuity, retirement or similar fund or system established by the State or a Political Subdivision thereof.
2. 
All services performed by individuals as employees of the Political Subdivision are included, except:
a. 
Any service performed by Policemen or Firemen as a member of a coverage group in positions covered by a retirement system;
b. 
Service performed by an employee who is employed to relieve him/her from unemployment;
c. 
Service performed in a hospital, home or other institution by a patient or inmate thereof;
d. 
Covered transportation service, as determined under Section 210 (1) of the Social Security Act, as amended;
e. 
Service (other than agricultural labor or service performed by a student) which is excluded from employment by any provision of the State Act and of Section 210 (a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, other than Paragraph (8) of such Section;
f. 
Services which, in the absence of an agreement entered into between the State of Missouri and the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Section 105 and the Social Security Act, would constitute "employment" as defined in Section 210 of the Social Security Act;
g. 
Services of employees in the classification or classifications indicated and designated in the Appendix which is on file in the City Clerk's office.
3. 
The Political Subdivision, upon approval of this plan and agreement by the State Agency, will pay into the Contribution Fund, created by Section 105, at such time as the State Agency shall prescribe, contributions with respect to wages in the amounts and at the rates specified in the agreement entered into between the State of Missouri and the Secretary of Health and Human Services such amounts to be equal to the sum of the taxes which would be imposed by Sections 1400 and 1410 of the Federal Insurance Contribution Act, if the services covered by said agreement and by this plan and agreement constituted employment within the meaning of said Act; provided however, that in making the first payment to said Contributions Fund after the approval of this plan and agreement by the State Agency, said first payment shall include a sum equal to the amount which would have been due and payable had this plan and agreement, the agreement between the State of Missouri and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Section 105, all been effective on April 1, 1956. If the Political Subdivision fails to make any of the payments herein provided to be made at the time or times when due, each and every such delinquent payment shall bear interest at a rate equal to that charged by the Federal Agency from the due date until paid, and the State Agency may recover any such amount or amounts as may be delinquent in the manner provided by Section 105.
4. 
The Political Subdivision will provide, from the fund or funds specified in the action of its governing body hereinbefore referred to, the sum or sums necessary to make the payments on its behalf required to be made by the terms of the paragraph numbered 3, next above and the Political Subdivisions covenants that said fund or funds will at all times be adequate to make such payments, and the Political Subdivision will deduct from the wages of all its eligible employees and officials who will participate in the benefits to be provided under the terms of this plan and agreement the amount of each of said employees' and officials' contributions required to be made by the terms of the paragraph numbered 3, next above.
5. 
The Political Subdivision will fully comply with all rules and regulations which are now, or may hereafter be, prescribed by the State Agency under the terms of Section 105 and will keep such records and make such reports, in such form and containing such information as may be prescribed by the State Agency, and will provide such methods of administration of this plan and agreement, all as may be required by the State Agency and by said rules and regulations and by all applicable State and Federal laws and rules and regulations now or hereafter in effect. For the purpose of administering this plan and agreement the Mayor of the Political Subdivision shall be the official who shall make all required reports, keep all records, and be responsible for the administration of this plan and agreement on behalf of the Political Subdivision, and any and all notices and communications from the State Agency to the Political Subdivision with respect to said plan and agreement shall be addressed to the said official, at City of Forsyth.
6. 
The Political Subdivision may request that this plan and agreement be modified to include any coverage group to which this plan and agreement did not previously apply, or to include, in the case of any coverage group, services previously excluded from this plan and agreement, and any such requested modification shall become effective upon approval thereof by the State Agency and upon the modification of the agreement between the State of Missouri and the Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to the terms of such request.
[Ord. No. 22 §§1-2, 12-5-1956]
A. 
Hereafter any person who shall be convicted of violation of any of the ordinances of the City, and who shall be punished by a fine and who shall fail, neglect or refuse to pay said fine and all the costs of the suit, said person or persons shall be worked upon the streets and alleys of the City for the payment of said fine and costs.
B. 
The per diem to be allowed said persons in working out said fines and costs upon the streets and alleys, shall be one (1) day's actual work for each and every ten dollars ($10.00) of said fine and costs, and if any person shall fail or refuse to work as above provided, he/she may be incarcerated in the common jail upon a commitment issued by the court before whom said person was convicted.
[Ord. No. 102 §1, 10-2-1970; Ord. No. 444 §1, 12-5-2011]
The City of Forsyth be divided into two (2) separate wards to be known as Ward No. 1 and Ward No. 2, with boundaries as follows:
Ward No. 1: All that part of the City of Forsyth, east and north of U.S. Highway 160 excluding the subdivision area bounded by Tower Road and Boswell Road and the subdivision area bounded by Blair Boulevard, Shadowrock Drive, Allaman Drive and Shorty Cooper Street.
Ward No. 2: All that part of the City of Forsyth, west and south of U.S. Highway 160 and including the subdivision area bounded by Tower Road and Boswell Road and the subdivision area bounded by Blair Boulevard, Shadowrock Drive, Allaman Drive and Shorty Cooper Street that are east and north of U.S. Highway 160.
A. 
General Penalty. Except as hereinafter provided, whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance of this City or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated pursuant to such Code or other such ordinance of the City any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or any offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such code or in such other City ordinance, rule, regulation, notice or order the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided therefore the violation of any such provision of this Code or of any other ordinance of the City or of any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated pursuant to such Code or other City ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by any Statute of the State, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for the punishment of such offense, except that imprisonment may be made in the City Jail or workhouse instead of the County Jail.
Whenever any provision of the Revised Statutes of Missouri or other Statute of the State limits the authority of the City to punish the violation of any particular provision of this Code or other City ordinance or rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated pursuant thereto a fine of less amount than that provided in this Section, then the violation of such particular provision in this Code or other City ordinance, rule, regulation, notice or order shall be punished by the imposition of not more than the maximum fine or imprisonment so authorized, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. 
Continuing Violation. A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which a violation of this Code or any other City ordinance, rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated pursuant thereto, occurs, or continues, unless otherwise provided.