§ 2-61. Participation of employees.

Pursuant to VTCS, Title 110B, section 62.101 et seq., the city adopts the following plan 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 membership, shall be eligible for service retirement who has attained the age of fifty (50) years and has completed twenty-five (25) years of creditable service with this city or who has attained the age of sixty (60) years and has completed at least ten (10) years of creditable service with participating municipalities which have adopted the plan provisions of this section, or who have a participation date in the retirement system after August 26, 1979.

(3)

The membership of any member who has completed at least ten (10) years of creditable service with this city and other participating municipalities under VTCS Title 110B, section 64.202(c) shall not terminate because of absence from service.

(4)

Any person who is an employee of a participating department of this city at the effective date of this section, but who at the date of his employment was under sixty (60) years of age but did not become a member of Texas Municipal Retirement System because he 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 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 city subsequent to the date such person was precluded from membership and prior to the effective date of his membership. Such prior service credit shall be calculated using the same percentage of the base prior service credit as was most recently used in calculating prior service credits or updated service credits in the system for current member employees of this city.

(5)

The rights, credits and benefits authorized in this section shall be in addition to the plan provisions heretofore adopted and in force at the effective date of this section pursuant to the act governing the system.

(6)

This section shall become effective on March 1, 1980.

(Ord. No. 157-2-80, §§ 1—23, 2-5-80)