(A) The city shall be a participating municipality in the state retirement system, as provided by law, for the purpose of including police officers and/or general employees in its employ under the state municipal retirement system, hereinafter called the retirement system.
(B) The effective date of the city's participation in the retirement system is January 1, 1966, as provided by the state retirement system.
(C) All police officers in the employ of the city as of the above date shall be included in the membership of the retirement system; and all persons who thereafter become police officers in the employ of the city shall be included in the membership of the retirement system.
(D) All general employees of the city as of the above date shall be included in the membership of the retirement system; and all persons who thereafter become general employees of the city shall be included in the membership of the retirement system.
(E) The City Finance Officer is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the State Treasurer, the appropriate city contributions and salaries paid police officers and all general employees of the city out of the General Fund of the city for the state municipal retirement system; the city contributions to be paid to the retirement system concurrent with the contributions paid to the retirement system by the city employee members in the retirement system; and same to be remitted to the retirement system in a manner and form as the Board of Trustees of the state municipal retirement system from time to time prescribes.
(Prior Code, § 2-801)