(a) Any employee may authorize the payment, by payroll deductions, of contributions to charitable organizations approved by the Police Department. The Department shall have the authority, pursuant to this article, to authorize such payroll deductions and to promulgate and administer rules to implement payroll deductions for charitable organizations. Such rules shall be submitted to and approved by the City Council. The number of voluntary deductions which a single employee may authorize under authority of both this section and Section 4.203 of this Code shall not exceed the total of 15.
(b) The authorization for such deductions shall be in such form as the Controller may determine, shall be signed by the employee and delivered to the Controller and thereafter, and until revoked or cancelled by such employee, or by the Police Department for cause as defined in its rules to implement payroll deductions for umbrella charitable organizations, shall be effective as of the end of each payroll period. Checks in the amount due to the named organization, representing the amounts deducted from employees’ pay checks, shall be prepared and issued to such organization by the Controller after the close of each payroll period.
(c) No fee shall be charged or collected for voluntary payroll deductions made for the charitable organizations approved by the Police Department.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 144,153, Eff. 1-14-73.
Amended by: Ord. No. 146,032, Eff. 7-11-74; Ord. No. 146946, Eff. 3-22-75; Ord. No. 147068, Eff. 5-12-75; Ord. No. 159,811, Eff. 6-16-85; Ord. No. 160,475, Eff. 12-1-85; Ord. No. 162,274, Eff. 5-31-87; Ord. No. 162,391, Eff. 12-13-87; Ord. No. 163,241, Eff. 3-21-88; Ord. No. 163,388, Eff. 4-10-88; Ord. No. 163,682, Eff. 7-10-88; Ord. No. 163,995, Eff. 10-8-88; Ord. No. 164,543, Eff. 4-22-89; Ord. No. 168,346, Eff. 12-28-92; Ord. No. 168,645, Eff. 4-15-93, In Entirety, Ord. No. 169,016, Eff. 9-30-93; Ord. No. 173,283, Eff. 6-26-00, Oper. 7-1-00; Subsec. (a), Ord. No. 173,410, Eff. 8-27-00.