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(Rev. 8-82)
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TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM
AN ORDINANCE AFFECTING PARTICIPATION OF CITY
EMPLOYEES IN THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT
SYSTEM; GRANTING THE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS,
CREDITS AND BENEFITS AUTHORIZED BY SECTIONS
62.105 AND 64.202 OF TITLE 110B, REVISED CIVIL
STATUTES OF TEXAS, 1925, AS AMENDED; PROVIDING
THAT SUCH RIGHTS SHALL BE SUPPLEMENTARY TO
THOSE HERETOFORE ALLOWED AND THAT ARE IN
FORCE ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
ORDINANCE; AND PRESCRIBING THE EFFECTIVE DATE
OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS:
Section 1. 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 of Beaumont, Texas, adopts the following provisions
affecting participation of its employees in the Texas Municipal Retirement System:
(a) 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;
(b) 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;
(c) 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
(d) Any person who is an employee of a participating department of this municipality at
the effective date of this ordinance, 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 ordinance, 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.
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Section 2. 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 ordinance
pursuant to the TMRS Act.
Section 3. This ordinance shall become effective on the first day of October ,
19 84 , 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.
Passed and approved this the day of 19
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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City/Secretary or Clerk Mayor
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