2022-060 - Allowing Employees of the Fire Department to Participate int he Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS)

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ORDINANCE NO. 2022-060 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, ALLOWING EMPLOYEES OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AS DESCRIBED HEREIN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM ("TMRS"); PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City of Paris, Texas (the "City") is a municipality that participates in the Texas Municipal Retirement System ("TMRS" or the "System") pursuant to the provisions of the Texas Government Code, Title 8, Subtitle G, as amended (the "TMRS Act"); and WHEREAS, §852.001 of the TMRS Act provides that a municipality may elect to have one or more of its departments participate in the System; and WHEREAS, pursuant to City Ordinance No. 1218 dated May 22, 1950, the City elected to have all employees and future employees of the City departments named in such Ordinance participate in TMRS, and such Ordinance specifically excepted the City's Fire Department from participation in TMRS; and WHEREAS, pursuant to City Ordinance No. 2062 dated December 13, 1971, and effective as of January 1, 1972, the City elected to have all employees of all City departments then existing or thereafter established participate in TMRS, but again specifically excepted the City's Fire Department from participation in TMRS; and WHEREAS, pursuant to City Ordinance No. 2352 dated September 12, 1977, the City elected to have employees of the City's newly created Library Department participate in TMRS; and WHEREAS, pursuant to City Ordinance No. 83-060 dated September 26, 1983, and effective as of October 1, 1983, the City elected to have "the employees of the Paris -Lamar County Health Unit which acts as the Health Department for the City of Paris who are not employees of the State of Texas and all departments now existing and those hereafter created, except those employee[s] of the Fire Department who are included in or who are eligible to be included in membership in Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund of the City of Paris, participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System as provided in the TMRS Act"; and WHEREAS, the City of Paris has a regularly organized Fire Department for which the Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund of the City of Paris referred to above (hereafter the "Fire Fund") was established under Section 4 of the Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act, Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes (the "TLFFRA Act"); and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Paris finds that it will be in the best interest of the City to have existing employees of the Fire Department who are not participating in TMRS pursuant to City Ordinance No. 83-060 and all future employees of the Fire Department