The city council hereby exercises its option and elects to have the city and all of the employees of all departments, except the fire department, except members of the fire department who are eligible to participate in the firemen’s relief and retirement system, but including, however, all employees of the fire department who are not eligible to participate in the firemen’s relief and retirement system, participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System as provided in Vernon’s Texas Civ. St., 1948, article 6243h. All of the benefits and obligations of such system are hereby accepted.
(1950 Code, ch. 2, sec. 28; Ordinance of 3-57; 1957 Code, sec. 2-10)
The city manager is hereby directed to notify the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System that the city has elected to participate and have the employees of the following city departments participate in such system: water and sewer, police, administrative, engineering, street and sanitation, and employees of the fire department who are not eligible to participate in the firemen’s relief and pension system, and to notify such board when and as departments are added to participate in such system.
(1950 Code, ch. 2, sec. 29; Ordinance of 3-57; 1957 Code, sec. 2-11)
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 Vernon’s Texas Civ. St., 1948, subsection 14, section 2 of article 6243h.
(1950 Code, ch. 2, sec. 30; 1957 Code, sec. 2-12)
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.
(1950 Code, ch. 2, sec. 31; 1957 Code, sec. 2-13)
The city comptroller 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 Vernon’s Texas Civ. St., 1948, article 6243h. The city comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain and certify officially, on behalf of the city, the prior service rendered to the city 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 of the city under the provisions of Vernon’s Texas Civ. St., 1948, article 6243h, or the rules and regulations of the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
(1950 Code, ch. 2, sec. 32; 1957 Code, sec. 2-14)
(a) 
Effective January 1, 1969, for each month of current service thereafter rendered by each of its employees who are members of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, the city will contribute to the current service annuity reserve of each such member, at the time of his retirement, a sum that is two hundred (200) percent of such member’s accumulated deposits for such month of employment, and said sum shall be contributed from the city’s account in the municipality current service accumulation fund.
(b) 
The total earnings which may be paid by the city to any of its employees who are members of the Texas Municipal Retirement System shall 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.
(1950 Code, ch. 2, sec. 33; Ordinance 458, sec. 1, adopted 11/8/55; Ordinance 69-6, sec. 1, adopted 1/14/69; Ordinance 69-7, sec. 1, adopted 1/14/69; 1957 Code, sec. 2-15)
This provision is adopted for the purpose of referencing those ordinances that have been adopted by the city regarding the Texas Municipal Retirement System since 1988. The effective dates for the referenced ordinance will be as provided in such ordinances. This section may be subsequently amended to add references to those ordinances that may be subsequently adopted and are with regard to the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
(1) 
Ordinance No. 88-22, adopted March 8, 1988, effective April 1, 1988, providing for retirement at any age with twenty-five (25) years of creditable service; providing for survivor benefits for the spouse of deceased employees who are vested at the time of death; providing an occupational disability retirement plan providing certain benefitsfor employees who become disabled to perform their particular job or occupation; providing prior service credit for those employees (if any) previously ineligible for TMRS membership due to age at the time of employment who become members of TMRS; effective September 1, 1987.
(2) 
Ordinance No. 89-69, adopted September 26, 1989, allowing certain employees of the city, who performed or hereafter perform active service in the armed forces (or their reserves or auxiliaries) of the United States under honorable conditions, to apply and make deposits for, and to receive, special credit with the Texas Municipal Retirement System for limited portions of such military service, and providing for payment by the city of its share of the costs of allowing such credits.
(3) 
Ordinance No. 90-81, adopted December 18, 1990, authorizing and allowing, under the act governing the Texas Municipal Retirement System, “updated service credits” effective January 1, 1991, for service performed by qualifying members of such system who presently are in the employment of the city; providing for increased prior and current service annuities for retirees and beneficiaries or deceased retirees of the city; effective January 1, 1991.
(4) 
Ordinance No. 93-58, adopted October 12, 1993, authorizing and allowing, under the act governing the Texas Municipal Retirement System, restricted prior service credit to employees who are members of the system for service previously performed for other cities in the United States or for a Council of Governments in Texas for which such employees have not received credited service; effective December 1, 1993.
(5) 
Ordinance No. 93-69, adopted November 9, 1993, authorizing and allowing, under the act governing the Texas Municipal Retirement System, “updated service credits” for service performed by qualifying members of such system who presently are in the employment of the city; providing for increased prior and current service annuities for retirees and beneficiaries or deceased retirees of the city; effective January 1, 1994.
(6) 
Ordinance No. 96-69, adopted October 22, 1996, authorizing and allowing, under the act governing the Texas Municipal Retirement System, “updated service credits” for service performed by qualifying members of such system who presently are in the employment of the city; providing for increased prior and current service annuities for retirees and beneficiaries or deceased retirees of the city; effective January 1, 1997.
(7) 
Ordinance No. 99-53, adopted November 9, 1999; affecting participation of city employees in the Texas Municipal Retirement System; granting the additional rights authorized by section 854.202(g) of title 8, Texas Government Code, as amended; providing a twenty-year retirement plan under certain conditions; and establishing an effective date of January 1, 2000.
(8) 
Ordinance No. 99-54, adopted November 9, 1999; authorizing and allowing, under the act governing the Texas Municipal Retirement System, “updated service credits” in said system for service performed by qualifying members of such system who presently are in the employment of the city; providing for increased prior and current service annuities for retirees and beneficiaries of deceased retirees of the city; and establishing an effective date of January 1, 2000.
(9) 
Ordinance No. 2003-10, adopted March 11, 2003, and effective May 1, 2003, providing that the city council elects to revoke the prior election not to provide five-year vesting under section 854.205 for its employees. The city shall promptly notify the board of trustees of the system of this action.
(10) 
Ordinance No. 2002-54, adopted November 26, 2002, effective January 1, 2003, providing that the city council 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; any conflicting provisions are hereby rescinded.
(11) 
Ordinance No. 2010-30, adopted November 12, 2010, effective January 1, 2011, authorizing and allowing, under the act governing the Texas Municipal Retirement System, “updated service credits” in said system on an annual basis for service performed by qualifying members of such system who at the effective date of the allowance are members of the city; providing for increased prior and current service annuities for retirees and beneficiaries of deceased retirees of the city.
(12) 
Ordinance No. 2012-08, adopted February 28, 2012, allowing certain employees of the city who have terminated previous memberships in the Texas Municipal Retirement System, to deposit the sums so withdrawn, plus annual withdrawal charges, and allowing and undertaking the cost of allowing any such employee credit in such system for all service to which such employee had been entitled at date of such withdrawal, with like effect as if all such service had been performed as an employee of the city.
(Ordinance 88-22, sec. 1, adopted 3/8/88; Ordinance 89-69, sec. 1, adopted 9/26/89; Ordinance 90-81, sec. 1, adopted 12/18/90; Ordinance 93-58, sec. 1, adopted 10/12/93; Ordinance 93-69, sec. 1, adopted 10/28/93; Ordinance 96-69, sec. 1, adopted 10/22/96; Ordinance 99-53, sec. 2, adopted 10/26/99; Ordinance 99-54, sec. 5, adopted 11/9/99; Ordinance 99-55, sec. 1, adopted 11/9/99; Ordinance 2001-52, sec. 2, adopted 12/11/01; Ordinance 2002-54, sec. 2, adopted 11/26/02; Ordinance 2003-10, sec. 1, adopted 3/11/03; 1957 Code, sec. 2-15.8; Ordinance 2010-30 adopted 10/12/10; Ordinance 2012-08 adopted 2/28/12)