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MUNICIPALITIES
MUNICIPALITIES--CONTRIBUTION TO FIREMEN'S
RETIREMENT FUND
CHAPTER 19
S. B. No. 99
An Act amending Chapter 125 of the 45th Legislature, 1937, (compiled as Article
6243e, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes), by adding a new Section num-
bered 10D, requiring any city of more than one hundred and eighty-five
thousand (185,000) but less than one hundred and ninety-five thousand
(195,000) Inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to
contribute amounts into firemen's retirement and pension funds, providing
the firemen with payment of the total amount they have Individually con-
tributed into such fund upon termination of their employment and prior to
receiving their twenty-year retirement certificate; providing an election
by terminated firemen having received their twenty-year certificates to
receive the total amount of their contribution or to continue making pay-
ments into such fund until reaching the age of fifty-five, and at such time
he shall receive all pension benefits which have accrued; providing for
Investment of surplus funds by the boards, with the assistance of advisory
committees; and declaring an emergency,.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Chapter 125 of the 45th Legislature, 1937, as amended,
(compiled as Article 6243e, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes) is amend-
ed by adding 16 a new Section reading as follows:
"Sec. 10D. (a) Any city having a population of more than one hun-
dred and eighty-five thousand (185,000) inhabitants but less than one hun-
dred and ninety-five thousand (195,000) inhabitants, according to the last
preceding Federal Census, which has fully paid firemen and a Firemen's
Relief and Retirement Fund has been or shall be created under the pro-
visions of this Act, shall contribute and appropriate each month to such
fund an amount equal to seven and one-half per centum (71/2%) of the
monthly payroll of the fire department of the city, provided that each full-
time fireman shall pay into such pension fund seven and one-half per
centum (7 %) of his monthly salary. In addition to the amount which
the city is required to contribute, the governing body of a city may au-
thorize the city to make an additional annual contribution to its Firemen's
Relief and Retirement Fund in whatever amount the governing body of
the city may fix.
"(b) Money deducted from salaries or compensation as provided by
this Section and the payments and contributions provided by this Section
shall become and form a part of the Firemen's Relief and Retirement
Fund of the city in which the contributing fireman serves.
"(c) Each person who shall hereafter become a fireman in any city
which has a Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund to which he is eligi-
ble for membership, shall become a member of such fund as a condition
of his appointment, and shall by acceptance of such position agree to
make and shall make contributions required under this Act of members
of such fund, and shall participate in the benefits of membership in such
fund as provided in this Act; provided, however, that no person shall be
eligible to membership in any such fund who is more than thirty-five (35)
years of age at the time he first enters service as a fireman; and provided
further, that any such person who enters service as a fireman may be de-
nied or excused from membership in the fund if the board of trustees of
is. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 6243e, I 10OD.
25Ch. 19
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