For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AVERAGE SALARY. The highest average annual salary of the member for the three years of service wherein the member drew his or her highest annual salary.
BOARD. The Board of Trustees provided herein as the agency responsible for the direction and operation of the affairs and business of the Fund.
EMPLOYEE. Any person employed in the conduct of municipal affairs who is in the classified service of the city and has been duly appointed under civil service regulations, exclusive of police officers and firefighters, and those employees who are appointed to an administrative or directional position as defined in KRS 90.300(a) if said appointee is a member of the Fund on the date of his or her appointment to the administrative or directional position.
FUND. The Employee’s Retirement Fund of the city.
MEMBER. Any employee of the city who is included in the membership of the Fund.
MEMBERSHIP SERVICE. Service rendered on or after 7-23-1964.
OCCUPATIONAL DEATH. Death due to occupational causes including, but not limited to, injury or disease.
PRIOR SERVICE. Service rendered as a civil service employee prior to 7-23-1964.
SERVICE. Actual employment by the city, for salary, compensation or service otherwise creditable.
TOTAL DISABILITY. A disability which sub- stantially precludes a person from performing with reasonable regularity the substantial and material parts of any gainful work or occupation in the service of the department that he or she would be competent to perform were it not for the fact that the impairment is founded upon conditions which render it reasonably certain that it shall continue indefinitely.
TOTAL SERVICE. Prior service, membership service and military service.
WIDOW. Any woman legally married to an employee at the time of his retirement or married to the employee for a period of five years before his death, where there has been no decree of divorce of any kind dissolving the marriage and where the surviving spouse of such deceased employee has not at the time of death of such deceased employee voluntarily abandoned him or her. Upon the death of a member, due to occupational causes, the five-year marriage provision shall not apply. WIDOW includes WIDOWER.
(1984 Code, § 34.60) (Ord. O-39-64, passed 7-23-1964; Ord. O-15-80, passed 2-19-1980; Ord. O-20-83, passed 4-19-1983)