§ 2-199. Participation in system.

(a)

Effective January 1, 1986, pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Title 110B, sections 62.105 and 64.202 of subtitle G, which subtitle shall be referred to as the "TMRS ACT" in this section, the city adopts the provisions in this section affecting participation of its employees in the Texas Municipal Retirement System.

(b)

Each person who becomes an employee of any participating department of the 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.

(c)

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 (1) or more municipalities that have authorized eligibility under Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Title 110B, section 64.202 of the Texas Municipal Retirement System Act or under section XX of the former Article 6243h of Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. 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 (1) or more municipalities that have authorized eligibility under Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Title 110B, section 64.202 of the Texas Municipal Retirement System Act or under section XX of the former Article 6243h, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St.

(d)

The membership of any person who has completed at least ten (10) years of creditable service with participating municipalities that have authorized eligibility under Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Title 110B section 64.202 of the Texas Municipal Retirement System Act or under section XX of the former Article 6243h of the Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. shall not terminate because of absence from service.

(e)

Any person who is an employee of a participating department of the city on January 1, 1986, 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 on January 1, 1986, 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 the city 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 the system for current member employees of the city.

(f)

The rights, credits and benefits authorized in this section shall be in addition to the plan provisions heretofore adopted and in force on January 1, 1986, pursuant to the Texas Municipal Retirement System Act.

(Ord. No. 85-117, §§ 1, 2, 12-10-85)