(A) The membership of the retirement system shall include all persons who are, and who become, officers or employees of the city, except as provided in division (B) below.
(B) The membership of the retirement system, effective April 1992, shall not include:
(1) Elective and appointive officials who are not in full time employment with the city;
(2) Any person whose services are compensated on a fee or contractual basis;
(3) Any person in a position normally working less than 80 hours per month;
(4) Any person hired on a temporary part-time seasonal, co-op, internship or emergency or volunteer basis, including crossing guards and park rangers;
(5) The medical director and actuary;
(6) Any person who cannot complete the minimum credited service requirements, other than those eligible under § 32.059 of this chapter dealing with the Reciprocal Retirement Act, being M.C.L.A. §§ 38.1101 et seq.; or
(7) Any person in receipt of retirement allowance from the city’s employee’s retirement system.
(C) In addition to the exclusions identified in division (B) above, membership of the retirement system shall not include:
(1) Any police patrol member hired between 2-1-1999 and 12-31-2019, who did not elect to join the system effective 1-1-2020;
(2) Any non-union administrative technical or clerical employees of the city hired after 10-1-1999;
(3) Any member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (A.F.S.C.M.E.) Local 894, hired after 3-31-2000;
(4) Any police command member hired between 2-1-1999 and 12-31-2019, who did not elect to join the system effective 1-1-2020;
(5) Any firefighter member hired after 10-1-2000;
(6) Any non-union administrative, technical or clerical employee of the city hired before 10-1-1999, who voluntarily elected to leave membership of the retirement system on 3-31-2001, pursuant to the rules in effect at that time;
(7) Any member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (A.F.S.C.M.E.) Local 894, hired before 3-31-2000, who voluntarily elected to leave membership of the retirement system on 3-31-2001, pursuant to the rules in effect at that time;
(8) Any member of the dispatch/clerical bargaining unit hired after 7-2-2001;
(9) Any member of the dispatch/clerical bargaining unit hired before 7-1-2002, who voluntarily elected to leave membership of the retirement system on 6-30-2002, pursuant to the rules in effect at that time;
(10) Any municipal service employee hired after 9-30-2006;
(11) Any municipal service employee hired before 10-1-2006, who voluntarily elected to leave membership of the retirement system; and
(12) Any member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (A.F.S.C.M.E.) Local 894, hired before 3-31-2000, who voluntarily elected to leave membership of the retirement system on 3-31-2013, pursuant to the rules in effect at that time.
(D) In all cases of doubt, the Commission shall decide who is a member of the system within the meaning of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 2-207) (Ord. 368, passed 9-25-1967; Ord. 567, passed 6-14-1976; Ord. 958, passed 10-5-1992; Ord. 1060, passed 3-1-1999; Ord. 1082, passed 11-1-1999; Ord. 1091, passed 6-5-2000; Ord. 1159, passed 11-18-2002; Ord. 1371, passed 9-17-2012; Ord. 1388, passed 10-14-2013; Ord. 1485, passed 4-20-2020)