06 Police & Fire Retirement CHARTER ORDINANCE NUMBER 6
(First Published in The Salina Journal ~L~ , 1971)
A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF SALINA, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVISIONS
OF K.S.A. 13-14a06, WHI£H PROVIDES FOR MEMBERSHIP FEES AND CONTRIBUTIONS BY OFFICERS AND
MEMBERS OF THE FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS FOR THEIR RETIREMENT SYSTEMS AND PROVIDING
FOR REFUNDS UPON TERMINATION OF SERVICES WITH SAID DEPARTMENTS AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE
AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
BE IT ORDAINE[ by the Governing Body of The City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. TPat the City of Salina, Kansas, a city of the first class, by the
powers vested in it by ~rticle 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas,
hereby elects to and do(Is exempt itself from and making inapplicable to it, K.S.A. 13-14a06
which applies only to c~ties of the first class and is not applicable uniformly to all
cities in Kansas, and pl'ovides substitute and additional provisions on the same subject
as follows; to-wit:
"13-14a0~. Membership fee and contributions by officers
and members of department; refunds; limitations.
Eve-y new officer and member of said police and fire
departmelts shall be required to pay to the treasurer of said
board a Inembership fee of five dollars, and there shall be
deducted from the salary of every officer and member of each
departmelt not less than three percent nor more than ten percent
of his m~nthly salary, the exact amount of which shall be
determint~d by the Board of Commissioners, which shall be paid
into the respective pension funds. Any officer or member whose
services for any reason whatsoever, other than by transfer from
the poi ce to the fire department or from the fire to the police
departm~ nt, shall be terminated with the department shall be
entitled, upon demand, to be paid within thirty days after such
demand, the total amount of the deduction from his salary paid
int8 sa d fund, less flfty percent: Provided, that in the event
such officer or member shall renew his services with said
department he shall, as a condition of employment, return to
said fun the amount withdrawn. Provided further, that if any
officer ~r member of either the police or the fire department
is trane:erred from one department to the other, then said
officer~or member shall notify in writing the Board of Trustees
of the ~ension Fund of which he was a member of his transfer
and thereupon any accrued contributions made by him to the
pension fund and any accumulated credits or benefits to which
said menber would have been entitled to prior to said transfer
shall b~ transferred to the pension fund of the department to
which h~ is transferring, and upon application for retirement
said member shall be entitled to compute his combined services
with bo-h departments in determining his eligibility~ for
ret i rem~ nt."
Section 2. ~his ordinance shall be published once a week for two consecutive
weeks in The Salina Jo~rnal, the official city newspaper.
Section 3. 'his is a Charter Ordinance and shall take effect sixty-one (61) days
after final publicatiol~, unless a sufficient petition is filed and a referendum held on th~
ordinance as provided n Article 12, Section 5, Subdivision (c) of the Constitution of
Kansas, in which case ~he ordinance shall become effective, if approved by a majority of
the electors voting th.~reon.
~'~ ~do~t~d by the Governing Body by not less than two-thirds of the members elect
vo?ng ixn~avor'~ereo~, and approved by the Mayor this 29th day of March, 1971
(SEAL)
AtteSt:-
City Clerk
The fori~going Charter Ordinance Number 6 was passed on the 29th day of
March, 1971, as s,~own by the Journal of Proceedings Number 23, Page 284, by a vote
of five for and z~'~ro against, being not less than two-thirds of the members-elect
of the Governing ~ody, published in The Salina Journal, the official city newspaper
on the 1st day of!April, 1971, and on the 8th day of April, 1971, being once a week
for two consecutive weeks, and there being no petition demanding a referendum
filed with the Ci y Clerk within sixty days after the final publication, said
Charter Ordinance took effect on the 8th day of June, 1971~
D. L. Harrison, City Clerk