On behalf of the City, the City Council hereby exercises its option and elects to have the City and all 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.
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 2, of article 6243h of Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes.
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.
The City Manager 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, 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 Manager 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 of 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.
All employees of the City, who are members of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, shall make deposits to the system at the rate of seven percent (7%) of their individual earnings.
(Ordinance 4622, sec. 3, adopted 9/15/92)
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.
Effective January 1, 1971, 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.
(A) 
Each person who is an employee of the City on the thirty-first day of December, 1970, and who is at that date a member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, shall be allowed and, upon the terms and conditions prescribed by section XVI of article 6243h, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, as amended by chapter 371, Acts Regular Session, 61st Legislature, is hereby granted effective on the date last above-mentioned, “antecedent service credit” (as that term is defined in said act) calculated on the basis of one hundred (100) percent of each current service deposit actually made by such person with the Texas Municipal Retirement System during each month of current service performed for this City prior to the thirty-first day of December, 1970.
(B) 
Each person who is an employee of the City on the thirty-first day of December, 1970, and who, at said date, is a member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, and who holds in said system an effective prior service certificate granted by reason of service performed for this City prior to its participation in said system, shall be allowed and is hereby granted (upon the terms and conditions prescribed by section XV of article 6243h, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes as amended by chapter 371, Acts of the Regular Session, 61st Legislature) a “special prior service credit” in an amount equivalent to the accumulation at interest, as provided in said act, of a series of monthly payments of five (5) percent of the member’s “average prior service compensation” for the number of months of prior service certified to in such member’s prior service certificate. The special prior service credit herein provided for shall be in addition to the prior service credit heretofore allowed such member.
(C) 
Any person who was employed by the City prior to December 31, 1970, whose membership in Texas Municipal Retirement System by reason of such service has not terminated, and who on said date is absent from service in the employment of the City, shall be entitled to antecedent service credit and to special prior service credit in the amount (if any) he would have been allowed under subsections (A) and (B) hereof had he been in active service on said date, provided such person again becomes an employee of the City before termination of his said membership in Texas Municipal Retirement System and within five (5) years from the thirty-first day of December, 1970, and provided such person thereupon continues as an employee of a participating department of the City for a period of five (5) consecutive years.
Pursuant to section 63.003 of subtitle G of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, the City hereby elects to allow any member of Texas Municipal Retirement System who is an employee of this City on the first day of January, 1986, who has terminated a previous membership in said system by withdrawal of deposits while absent from service, but who has at least twenty-four (24) months of credited service as an employee of this City since resuming membership, to deposit with the system in a lump sum the amount withdrawn, plus a withdrawal charge of five (5) percent of such 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 the 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 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 saving fund of the system.
(A) 
The City, by its City Council hereby elects to have the employees of all participating departments of said City (as above defined) participate in and be covered by the supplemental benefits fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, as provided by chapter 312, Acts Regular Session, 56th Legislature; and all the benefits and obligations of participation in said Fund are hereby accepted by the City as to such employees.
(B) 
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 above-mentioned departments participate in the supplemental benefits fund of said system.
(C) 
Each person who becomes an employee of any participating department on or after the effective date of participation of such department in said fund shall, as a condition of his employment, be covered into the supplemental benefits fund of said system. The City, may in the future refuse to add new departments or new employees to said fund, but shall never discontinue as to any members who are covered into the fund.
(D) 
The City Manager or his designee is hereby directed to remit monthly to the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System at its office in Austin, Texas, as the City’s contributions to the supplemental benefits fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, such percentage of earnings of the above-mentioned employees of said City as may be fixed by the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, provided that the rate of contribution of said fund shall not exceed one-half of one percentum (1/2%) of the earnings of the employees of said City who are covered under said fund; and such official shall make for the City such reports as the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System may prescribe.
(E) 
Participation of the above-mentioned employees in the supplemental benefits fund shall be effective September 1, 1972.
(A) 
Effective on the first day of January, 1976, any employee of the City, who has attained the age of fifty (50) years, and who, as an employee of this City, has completed twenty-five (25) or more years of creditable service for which he is entitled to credit in the Texas Municipal Retirement System, and who has been a member of the system for one year or more, shall be eligible for service retirement as provided in subsection 1(b), section VII of article 6243h, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, as amended.
(B) 
Any such employee who shall have completed twenty (20) years or more of creditable service as an employee of said City shall continue as a member of Texas Municipal Retirement System despite subsequent absence from service for a period in excess of sixty (60) months, provided he does not withdraw his deposits during such absence and shall be eligible to retire upon and after attainment of the minimum age prescribed by the act above mentioned.
(A) 
Pursuant to the provisions of sections 62.105 and 64.202 of subtitle G of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, which subtitle shall herein be referred to as the “TMRS ACT,” the City, adopts the following provisions affecting participation of its employees in the Texas Municipal Retirement System:
(1) 
Each person who becomes an employee of any participating department of this City and who is not already a member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System shall become a member of the system as a condition of employment, provided such person is then under sixty (60) years of age;
(2) 
Any member, after one (1) year from the effective date of his or her membership in the system, shall be eligible for service retirement if he or she has attained the age of fifty (50) years and has completed twenty-five (25) years of creditable service with one or more municipalities that have authorized eligibility under section 64.202 of the TMRS Act or under section XX of former article 6243h, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, or if he or she has attained the age of sixty (60) years and has completed at least ten (10) years of creditable service with one or more municipalities that have authorized eligibility under section 64.202 of the TMRS Act of under section XX of said former article 6243h;
(3) 
The membership of any person who has completed at least ten (10) years of creditable service with participating municipalities that have authorized eligibility under section 64.202 of the TMRS Act (or under section XX of said former article 6243h) shall not terminate because of absence from service; and
(4) 
Any person who is an employee of a participating department of this municipality at the effective date of this section, but who at the date of his or her employment was under sixty (60) years of age but did not become a member of Texas Municipal Retirement System because he or she was then above the maximum age then prescribed by law for initial membership in the system, shall become a member of the system at the effective date of this section, unless he or she has already become a member under other provisions of the governing act, and shall be allowed prior service credit for each month of creditable service performed for this municipality subsequent to the date such person was precluded from membership and prior to the effective date of his or her membership. Such prior service credit shall be calculated using the same percentage of base prior service credit as was most recently used in calculating prior service credits or updated service credits in said system for current member employees of this City.
(B) 
The rights, credits and benefits hereinabove authorized shall be in addition to the plan provisions heretofore adopted and in force at the effective date of this section pursuant to the TMRS Act.
(C) 
This section shall become effective on the first day of January, 1983, provided that is has previously been determined by the actuary for the system that all obligations of the City to the municipality accumulation fund, including obligations hereby undertaken, can be funded by the City within its maximum contribution rate and within its amortization period.
(A) 
Pursuant to the provisions of sections 64.202(f), 64.204, 64.405, 64.406, and 64.420 of subtitle G of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended by the 70th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular Session, which subtitle shall herein be referred to as the “TMRS Act,” the City, adopts the following provisions affecting participation of its employees in the Texas Municipal Retirement System (which retirement system shall herein be referred to as the “system”).
(1) 
Any employee of this City who is a member of the system is eligible to retire and receive a service retirement annuity, if the member has at least 25 years of credited service in that system performed for one or more municipalities that have participation dates after September 1, 1987, or have adopted a like provision under section 64.202(f) of the TMRS Act.
(2) 
If a “vested member,” as that term is defined in section 64.204(b) of the TMRS Act, shall die before becoming eligible for service retirement and leaves surviving a lawful spouse whom the member has designated as beneficiary entitled to payment of the member’s accumulated contributions in event of the member’s death before retirement, the surviving spouse may by written notice filed with the system elect to leave the accumulated deposits on deposit with the system subject to the terms and conditions of said section 64.204(b). If the accumulated deposits have not been withdrawn before such time as the member, if living, would have become entitled to service retirement, the surviving spouse may elect to receive, in lieu of the accumulated deposits, an annuity payable monthly thereafter during the lifetime of the surviving spouse in such amount as would have been payable had the member lived and retired at that date under a joint and survivor annuity (option 1) payable during the lifetime of the member and continuing thereafter during the lifetime of the surviving spouse.
(3) 
At any time before payment of the first monthly benefit of an annuity, a surviving spouse to whom subsection (b) applies may, upon written application filed with the system, receive payment of the accumulated contributions standing to the account of the member in lieu of any benefits otherwise payable under this section. In the event such a surviving spouse shall die before payment of the first monthly benefit of an annuity allowed under this section, the accumulated contributions credited to the account of the member shall be paid to the estate of such spouse.
(4) 
The rights, credits, and benefits hereinabove authorized shall be in addition to the plan provisions heretofore adopted and in force at the effective date of this section pursuant to the TMRS Act.
(5) 
Any employee of this City who is a member of the system is eligible to retire and receive a “standard occupational disability annuity” under section 64.408 of the TMRS Act or an “optional occupational disability retirement annuity” under section 64.410 of the TMRS Act upon making application therefor upon such form and in such manner as may be prescribed by the board of trustees of the system, provided that the system’s medical board has certified to said board of trustees that:
(a) 
The member is physically or mentally disabled for further performance of the duties of the member’s employment;
(b) 
The disability is likely to be permanent; and
(c) 
The member should be retired. Any annuity granted under this subsection shall be subject to the provisions of section 64.409 of the TMRS Act.
(6) 
The provisions relating to the occupational disability program as set forth in section (5) above are in lieu of the disability program heretofore provided for under sections 64.301 to 64.308 of the TMRS Act.
(B) 
This section shall become effective on the first day of January, 1988, provided that it has previously been determined by the actuary for the system that all obligations of the City to the municipality accumulation fund, including obligations hereby undertaken, can be funded by the City within its maximum contribution rate and within its amortization period.
(Ordinance 4153, sec. 1, adopted 11/3/87)
(A) 
The City, by its City Council, hereby elects to have the employees of all participating departments of said City (as above defined) participate in and be covered by the Supplemental Benefits Fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, as provided by chapter 312, Acts Regular Session, 56th Legislature; and all the benefits and obligations of participation in said fund are hereby accepted by the City as to such employees.
(B) 
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 above-mentioned departments participate in the supplemental benefits fund of said system.
(C) 
Each person who becomes an employee of any participating department on or after the effective date of participation of such department in said fund shall, as a condition of his employment, be covered into the supplemental benefits fund of said system. The City, may in the future refuse to add new departments or new employees to said fund, but shall never discontinue as to any members who are covered into the fund.
(D) 
The City Manager or his designee is hereby directed to remit monthly to the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System at its office in Austin, Texas, as the City’s contributions to the supplemental benefits fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, such percentage of earnings of the above-mentioned employees of said City as may be fixed by the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, provided that the rate of contribution to said fund shall not exceed one-half of one percentum (1/2%) of the earnings of the employees of said City who are covered under said fund; and such official shall make for the City such reports as the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System may prescribe.
(E) 
Participation of the above-mentioned employees in the supplemental benefits fund shall be effective September 1, 1972.
(A) 
The City hereby elects to participate in the supplemental death benefits fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System for the purpose of providing in-service death benefits for each of the City’s employees who are members of said system, and for the purpose of providing post-retirement death benefits for annuitants whose last covered employment was an employee of the City, in the amounts and on the terms provided for in sections 62.004, 64.601 through 64.605, 65.314, 65.409, and 65.502 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended.
(B) 
The City is hereby authorized and directed to notify the director of the system of adoption of this section, and of the participation of the City in said fund.
(C) 
Participation of the above-mentioned employees and annuitants in the supplemental death benefits fund shall be effective on the first day of January, 1983.
(A) 
On the terms and conditions set out in section XVII of article 6243h, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, as amended 1975, each member of Texas Municipal Retirement System who has current service credit or prior service credit in said system in force and effect on the first day of January, 1981, by reason of service in the employment of the City, shall be and is hereby allowed “updated service credit” (as that term is defined in said act) in an amount that is one hundred (100) percent of the “base updated service credit” of the member, calculated as provided in said act. The updated service credit hereby allowed shall be in lieu of and in substitution for all prior service credits, special prior service credits and antecedent service credits, if any were heretofore allowed such member by reason of service with the City.
(B) 
In accordance with the provisions of said act, the deposits required to be made to the Texas Municipal Retirement System by employees of the several participating departments on account of current service shall be calculated from and after the date aforesaid on the full amount of such person’s earnings as an employee of the City.
(C) 
Subject to approval of the board of trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, the updated service credits hereby granted shall be and become effective the first day of January, 1981.
(A) 
On the terms and conditions set out in sections 63.401 through 63.403 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, each member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who has current service credit or prior service credit in said system in force and effect on the first day of January, 1986, by reason of service in the employment of the City, and on such date has at least thirty-six (36) months of credited service with said system, shall be and is hereby allowed “updated service credit” (as that term is defined in subsection (d) of section 63.402 of said title) in an amount that is one hundred (100) percent of the “base updated service credit” of the member (calculated as provided in subsection (c) of section 63.402 of said title). The updated service credit hereby allowed shall replace any updated service credit, prior service credit, special prior service credit, or antecedent service credit previously authorized for part of the same service.
(B) 
On the terms and conditions set out in section 63.601 of said title, any member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who is eligible for updated service credits on the basis of service with this City, and who has unforfeited credit for prior service or current service, or both, with another participating municipality or municipalities by reason of previous service, and was a contributing member on January 1, 1985, shall be credited with updated service credits pursuant to, calculated in accordance with, and subject to adjustment as set forth in said section 63.601.
(C) 
In accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of section 63.401 of said title, the deposits required to be made to the Texas Municipal Retirement System by employees of the several participating departments on account of current service shall be calculated from and after the date aforesaid on the full amount of such person’s earnings as an employee of the City.
(A) 
On the terms and conditions set out in sections 63.401 through 63.403 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, each member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who has current service credit or prior service credit in said system in force and effect on the first day of January, 1988, by reason of service in the employment of the City, and on such date has at least 36 months of credited service with said system, shall be and is hereby allowed “updated service credit” (as that term is defined in subsection (b) of section 63.402 of said title) in an amount that is 100% of the “base updated service credit” of the member (calculated as provided in subsection (c) of section 63.402 of said title). The updated service credit hereby allowed shall replace any updated service credit, prior service credit, special prior service credit, or antecedent service credit previously authorized for part of the same service.
(B) 
On the terms and conditions set out in section 63.601 of said title, any member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who is eligible for updated service credits on the basis of service with this City, and who has unforfeited credit for prior service and/or current service with another participating municipality or municipalities by reason of previous service, and was a contributing member on January 1, 1987, shall be credited with updated service credits pursuant to, calculated in accordance with, and subject to adjustment as set forth in said section 63.601.
(C) 
In accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of section 63.401 of said title, the deposits required to be made to the Texas Municipal Retirement System by employees of the several participating departments on account of current service shall be calculated from and after the date aforesaid on the full amount of such person’s earnings as an employee of the City.
(D) 
This section shall become effective subject to approval by the board of trustees of Texas Municipal Retirement System, on the first day of January, 1988.
(Ordinance 4154, sec. 1, adopted 11/3/87)
(A) 
Pursuant to section XVIII of article 6243h, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, as amended and subject to approval by the board of trustees of Texas Municipal Retirement System as provided in said act, the City hereby elects to allow and to provide for payment of the increases below specified in all monthly benefits payable by the Texas Municipal Retirement System after the first day of January, 1981, to retired employees and to beneficiaries of deceased employees of this City under current service annuities and prior service annuities arising from service of such employee to this City, and in effect prior to the date last above mentioned.
(B) 
Each such monthly benefit for the month of January, 1981, and each month thereafter shall be increased by fifty (50) percent above the amount of the regular benefit (as distinguished from any supplemental or distributive benefit) in effect for the month of December, 1980.
(A) 
On terms and conditions set out in section 64.203 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, the City hereby elects to allow and to provide for payment of the increases below stated in monthly benefits payable by the Texas Municipal Retirement System to retired employees and to beneficiaries of deceased employees of this City under current service annuities and prior service annuities arising from service by such employees to this City. An annuity increase under this section replaces any annuity or increase annuity previously granted to the same person.
(B) 
The amount of annuity increase under this section is computed as the sum of the prior and current service annuities on the effective date of retirement of the person on whose service the annuities are based, multiplied by seventy (70) percent of the percentage change in Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, from December of the year immediately preceding the effective date of the person’s retirement to the December that is thirteen (13) months before the effective date of this section [January 1, 1986].
(C) 
An increase in an annuity that was reduced because of an option selection is reducible in the same proportion and in the same manner that the original annuity was reduced.
(D) 
If a computation hereunder does not result in an increase in the amount of annuity, the amount of the annuity will not be changed hereby.
(E) 
The amount by which an increase under this section exceeds all previously granted increases to an annuitant is an obligation of this City and of its account in the municipality accumulation fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
(A) 
On terms and conditions set out in section 64.203 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, the City hereby elects to allow and to provide for payment of the increases below stated in monthly benefits payable by the Texas Municipal Retirement System to retired employees and to beneficiaries of deceased employees of this City under current service annuities and prior service annuities arising from service by such employees to this City. An annuity increased under this section replaces any annuity or increased annuity previously granted to the same person.
(B) 
The amount of annuity increase under this section is computed as the sum of the prior and current service annuities on the effective date of retirement of the person on whose service the annuities are based, multiplied by 70% of the percentage change in Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, from December of the year immediately preceding the effective date of the person’s retirement to the December that is 13 months before the effective date of this section.
(C) 
An increase in an annuity that was reduced because of an option selection is reducible in the same proportion and in the same manner that the original annuity was reduced.
(D) 
If a computation hereunder does not result in an increase in the amount of an annuity, the amount of the annuity will not be changed hereby.
(E) 
The amount by which an increase under this section exceeds all previously granted increases to an annuitant is an obligation of this City and of its account in the municipality accumulation fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
(F) 
This section shall become effective subject to approval by the board of trustees of Texas Municipal Retirement System, on the first day of January, 1988.
(A) 
On the terms and conditions set out in sections 63.401 through 63.403 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, each member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who has current service credit or prior service credit in said system in force and effect on the first day of January, 1988, by reason of service in the employment of the City, and on such date has at least 36 months of credited service with said system, shall be and is hereby allowed “updated service credit” [as that term is defined in subsection (d) of section 63.402 of said title] in an amount that is 100% of the “base updated service credit” of the member [calculated as provided in subsection (c) of section 63.402 of said title]. The updated service credit hereby allowed shall replace any updated service credit, prior service credit, special prior service credit, or antecedent service credit previously authorized for part of the same service.
(B) 
On the terms and conditions set out in section 63.601 of said title, any member of the Texas Municipal Retirement System who is eligible for updated service credits on the basis of service with this City, and who has unforfeited credit for prior service and/or current service with another participating municipality or municipalities by reason of previous service, and was a contributing member on January 1, 1988, shall be credited with updated service credits pursuant to, calculated in accordance with, and subject to adjustment as set forth in section 63.601.
(C) 
In accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of section 63.401 of said title, the deposits required to be made to the Texas Municipal Retirement System by employees of the several participating departments on account of current service shall be calculated from and after the date aforesaid on the full amount of such person’s earnings as an employee of the City.
(D) 
Subject to approval by the board of trustees of Texas Municipal Retirement System, the updated service credits granted hereby shall be and become effective on the first day of January, 1989.
(Ordinance 4280, sec. 1, adopted 12/13/88)
(A) 
On terms and conditions set out in section 64.203 of title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, the City, hereby elects to allow and to provide for payment of the increases below stated in monthly benefits payable by the Texas Municipal Retirement System to retired employees and to beneficiaries of deceased employees of this City under current service annuities and prior service annuities arising from service by such employees to this City. An annuity increased under this system replaces any annuity or increased annuity previously granted to the same person.
(B) 
The amount of annuity increase under this section is computed as the sum of the prior and current service annuities on the effective date of retirement of the person on whose service the annuities are based, multiplied by 70% of the percentage change in Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, from December of the year immediately preceding the effective date of the person’s retirement to the December that is 13 months before the effective date of this section.
(C) 
An increase in an annuity that was reduced because of an option selection is reducible in the same proportion and in the same manner that the original annuity was reduced.
(D) 
If a computation hereunder does not result in an increase in the amount of an annuity, the amount of the annuity will not be changed hereby.
(E) 
The amount by which an increase under this section exceeds all previously granted increases to an annuitant is an obligation of this City and of its account in the municipality accumulation fund of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
(F) 
Subject to approval by the board of trustees of Texas Municipal Retirement System, the increases in retirement annuities granted hereby shall be and become effective on the first day of January, 1989.
(Ordinance 4280, secs. 2, 3, adopted 12/13/88)
(A) 
Pursuant to section 63.502, subchapter F, of chapter 63, title 110B, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, the City hereby elects to allow eligible members in its employment to establish credit in the Texas Municipal Retirement System for active military service performed as a member of the armed forces or armed forces reserves of the United States or an auxiliary of the armed forces or armed forces reserves. Eligible members as used herein shall be those employees meeting the criteria set forth in sections 63.502(b) and 63.503 of said subchapter F, and the amount and use of creditable military service shall be as further set forth in section 63.505.
(B) 
In order to establish credit for military service hereunder, a member must deposit with the Texas Municipal Retirement System (in that member’s individual account in the employees saving fund), an amount equal to the number of months for which credit is sought, multiplied by $15.00. The City agrees that its account in the municipality accumulation fund is to be charged at the time of the member’s retirement with an amount equal to the accumulated amount paid by the member for military service credit, multiplied by the City’s current service matching ratio in effect at the date the member applies for such military service credit.
(Ordinance 4363 adopted 9/5/89)
(A) 
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 on behalf of employees who are members of the system, as the system’s actuary shall annually determine as being 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 that accumulation fund, regardless of other provisions of the TMRS Act limiting the combined rate of City contributions.
(B) 
Pursuant to section 855.407(g) of the TMRS Act and, notwithstanding any provision of chapter 41 of this Code or any other ordinance, resolution or policy to the contrary, the City Council hereby terminates the annually repeating allowance of increases in prior and current service annuities to retirees and beneficiaries of deceased members as to all calendar years beginning after the effective date of this section; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to preclude the City Council from again adopting an ordinance under section 853.404 in the future.
(C) 
Provided a signed copy of this section has been furnished to the system prior that date, this section shall be and becomes effective on January 1, 2009.
(Ordinance 6262 adopted 9/2/09)