(A) The city adopts the following plan provisions affecting participation of its employees in the state municipal retirement system.
(1) Each person who becomes an employee of any participating department of the city and who is not already a member of the State Municipal Retirement System shall become a member of the system as a condition of employment; provided, such person is then under 60 years of age.
(2) Any member, shall be eligible for service retirement who has completed 20 years of creditable service with the city or who has attained the age of 60 years and has completed at least five years of creditable service with participating municipalities which have adopted the plan provisions of this section, or who has become eligible for service retirement under any other applicable provision of Tex. Gov’t Code §§ 851.001 et seq.
(3) The membership of any member who has completed at least five years of creditable service with the city and other participating municipalities which have adopted the plan provisions shall not terminate because of absence from service.
(4) Any person who was an employee of a participating department of the city at the effective date of Ord. 79-18, but who at the date of his or her employment was under 60 years of age, but did not become a member of the State 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 Ord. 79-18, 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 the city 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 the base prior service credit as was most recently used in calculating prior service credits or updated service credits in such system for current member employees of the city.
(B) The rights, credits and benefits authorized in this section shall be in addition to the plan provisions adopted before 11-7-1979, and in force at the effective date of Ord. 79-18 pursuant to the act governing such system.
(1998 Code, § 90-230)