a. The City is authorized to participate in the County Employees' Retirement System (CERS) effective the first day of December 1969, and all eligible regular full-time officers and employees of the City are hereby authorized and directed to comply with the statutory requirements of this retirement system.
b. The pension plan established for police officers and firefighters under Chapter 95 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes is hereby limited effective August 1, 1988, to participation by those existing employees who were then participating therein and who filed with the City on or before November 1, 1988, a written election to continue participating therein in lieu of participating in CERS.
c. All police officers and firefighters employed after August 1, 1988, shall, if otherwise qualified, be eligible for CERS hazardous position coverage.
(Ord. BG80-63, S2-9, 7/15/80; Ord. BG2000-15, 6/6/2000; Ord. BG2022-61, 12/20/2022)
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* State law reference: County Employees’ Retirement System, KRS 78.510 et seq.