§ 35.23 APPLICATION OF STATE LAW.

   The provisions of W. Va. Code 8-22-19 to 8-22-27 shall be applicable to the Police Officer’s Pension and Relief Fund established by this subchapter.

(Prior Code, § 22-12)

§ 35.24 RETIREMENT PLANS/PENSION.

   (A)   The existing pension plans for police officers and firefighters employed by the city are hereby closed to new entrants, in accordance with the authority provided in W. Va. Code 8-22-16(e).

   (B)   The city’s optional method of financing the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the existing Police Officers’s or Firefighter’s Pension and Relief Fund as provided in W. Va. Code 8-22-20(e).

   (C)   Newly hired police officers or firefighters shall be enrolled in a retirement plan created in W. Va. Code Ch. 8, Art. 22A and approved and administered by the state’s Consolidated Public Retirement Board.

   (D)   All current active members, retirees, and other beneficiaries covered by the existing Police Officer’s or Firefighter’s Pension and Relief Fund shall remain covered by that plan and shall be paid all benefits of that plan in accordance with applicable provisions of the state code.

(Ord. passed 1-5-2015)

POLICE PROTECTION

§ 35.35 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

   The rules and regulations for the city’s Police Department be and are hereby adopted as the rules and regulations for the city’s Police Department applicable to all members thereof, except the Chief of Police, an elected official, and in so far as they are not in conflict with any express statute of the state with respect to municipal police officers.

(Ord. passed 2-2-1988)