On behalf of the city, the city council hereby exercises its option and elects to have the city and all of the employees of all departments participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System as provided in Chapter 75, Acts of the 50th Legislature, as amended, being Article 6243h of Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, and all of the benefits and obligations of such system are hereby accepted.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article IV, Section 2-49)
Each person who becomes an employee of any participating department on or after the effective date of participation of such department shall be included within and subject to the provisions of the Texas Municipal Retirement System beginning upon the date such person becomes an "employee," as defined in subsection 14, Section II, of Article 4243h, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article IV, Section 2-50)
The city may in the future refuse to add new departments or new employees to the Texas Municipal Retirement System, but shall never discontinue as to any participants.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article IV, Section 2-51)
The city secretary or other proper official is hereby directed to remit to the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, at its office in Austin, Texas, the city's proper contributions to the system and the amounts which shall be deducted from the compensation or payroll of employees, all as required by such board under the provisions of Chapter 75, Acts of the 50th Legislature of the State of Texas, as amended, and the city secretary is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain and certify officially on behalf of the city the prior service rendered to the municipality by each of the employees of the participating departments, and the average prior service compensation received by each, and to make and execute all other reports and certificates which may be required by the city under the provisions of Chapter 24, Acts Regular Session 51st Legislature or the rules and regulations of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article IV, Section 2-52)
Annual earnings in excess of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) which may be paid by the city to any of its employees who are members of the Texas Municipal Retirement System shall not be considered in calculating the amount to be withheld and the deposits and contributions to be made to the Texas Municipal Retirement System by reason of current service rendered by such employee to this city; and the maximum amount which shall be deducted each month for current service deposits to said system (where such compensation is paid on a monthly basis) shall exclude payments in excess of one-twelfth (1/12) of the aforesaid sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00).
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article IV, Section 2-53)
(a) 
Every employee of the city, except the city manager, the assistant city manager, and heads of the several city departments shall be retired from employment with the city on the first day of the calendar year immediately following the year in which such employee reaches sixty-five (65) years of age.
(b) 
The time of employment may be extended from year to year for not more than five (5) years upon the request of the head of the department in which the employee serves and upon determination by the city physician after examination made in advance of any annual extension that the employee is physically fit to perform the duties to which he will be assigned. An employee whose retention is requested by the head of the department for which he serves, but who is determined to be not physically fit to perform the duties to which he was intended to perform, shall whenever possible be retained in city employment for one hundred twenty (120) days following such determination. Time of employment may not be extended beyond the calendar year immediately following the year in which the employee reaches the age of seventy (70) years.
(c) 
The provisions of this section are for the purpose of regulating the period of service of city employees. Except insofar as such regulation affects the eligibility for benefits under the Texas Municipal Retirement System of such employees by reason of length of service, this section is not intended to affect or regulate the rights of employees to retirement benefits under such system.
(1965 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Article IV, Section 2-54)
(a) 
Any employee of the city who is a member of the system is eligible to retire and receive a service retirement annuity if the member has at least 20 years of credited service in the system performed for one or more municipalities that have adopted a like provision under Section 854.202(g) of the TMRS Act.
(b) 
This section shall become effective on the first day of October, 2001.
(Ordinance 1856 adopted 5/10/01)
(a) 
The city council of the City of Brownfield, Texas, elects not to provide five-year vesting under Section 854.205 of the TMRS Act, and the city is hereby authorized and directed to file notice of this election with the board of trustees of the system before December 31, 2001.
(b) 
The provisions of this section shall become effective on the 31st day of December, 2001.
(Ordinance 1862 adopted 9/6/01)
Pursuant to Section 855.407(g) of the TMRS Act, the city hereby elects to make future normal and prior service contributions to its account in the municipal accumulation fund of the system at such combined rate of the total compensation paid by the city to employees who are members of the system, as the system’s actuary shall annually determine as the rate necessary to fund, within the amortization period determined as applicable to the city under the TMRS Act, the costs of all benefits which are or may become chargeable to or are to be paid out of the city’s account in said accumulation fund, regardless of other provisions of the TMRS Act limiting the combined rate of city contributions.
(Ordinance 1913 adopted 8/1/04)
(a) 
On the terms and conditions set out in Sections 853.305 of Subtitle G of Title 8, Texas Government Code, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the “TMRS Act”), each member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System (hereinafter referred to as the “system”) who is now or who hereafter becomes an employee of this city shall receive restricted prior service credit for service previously performed as an employee of any of the entities described in said Section 853.305 provided that:
(1) 
The person does not otherwise have credited service in the system for that service; and
(2) 
The service meets the requirements of said Section 853.305.
(b) 
The service credit hereby granted may be used only to satisfy length-of-service requirements for retirement eligibility, has no monetary value in computing the annuity payments allowable to the member, and may not be used in other computations, including computation of updated service credits.
(c) 
A member seeking to establish restricted prior service credit under this section must take the action required under said Section 853.305 while still an employee of this city.
(d) 
Effective.
This section shall become effective on the first day of January 2006.
(Ordinance 1933, sec. 1, adopted 12/15/05; Ordinance 1933, sec. 2, adopted 12/15/05)
(a) 
Pursuant to Section 853.003 of Subtitle G of Title 8, V.T.C.A., Government Code as amended, the city hereby elects to allow any member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who is an employee of this city on the 1st day of December 2005, who has terminated a previous membership in said system by withdrawal of deposits while absent from service, but who has at least 24 months of credited service as an employee of the city since resuming membership to deposit with the system in a lump sum the amount withdrawn, plus a withdrawal charge of five percent (5%) of amount for each year from date of such withdrawal to date of redeposit, and thereupon such member shall be allowed credit for all service to which the member had been entitled at date of termination of earlier membership, with like effect as if all such service had been rendered as an employee of this city, whether so rendered or not. The city agrees to underwrite and hereby assumes the obligations arising out of the granting of all such credits, and agrees that all such obligations and reserves required to provide such credits shall be charged to this city’s account in the municipality accumulation fund. The five percent (5%) per annum withdrawal charge paid by the member shall be deposited to the credit of the city’s account in said municipality accumulation fund; and the deposits of the amount previously withdrawn by the member shall be credited to his or her individual account in the employees’ savings fund of the system.
(b) 
This section shall become effective on the 1st day of December, 2005, which is a date on or after the date set forth in subsection (a) above.
(Ordinance 1932, sec. 1, adopted 12/1/05; Ordinance 1932, sec. 2, adopted 12/1/05)