[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Dickinson as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 1-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-1[1]]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Art. I, Municipal Retirement System, adopted 2-3-2003 by Ord. No. 02-03.
Dickinson Township, being a member municipality of the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System, hereby elects to change its member benefits in that system as authorized by the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law, as amended, and does hereby agree to be bound by all the requirements and provisions of said article and the law, as the case may be, and to assume all obligations, financial and otherwise, placed upon member municipalities by said amendment, as the case may be. All references hereafter shall be based on benefits negotiated between the Board and the municipality under the provisions of Article IV of the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law.
[Amended 11-3-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-2]
Membership in the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement system shall be mandatory for all full-time municipal employees of the Township. Membership for elected officials, part-time employees not currently members and employees hired on a temporary or seasonal basis is prohibited, as is membership for individuals paid only on a fee basis.
A. 
Credit for service toward the annuity of each original member shall begin to accrue as of January 1, 2003, or the original date of hire or expiration of the member's probationary period, if one so existed, whichever is most recent. Benefits provided to members in the agreement dated January 3, 2005, shall accrue based on all credited service granted and earned in accordance with this section.
B. 
However, for the purposes of determining eligibility for early retirement and vesting, credited service shall accrue from each original member's date of hire or the expiration of the member's probationary period, if one so existed, whichever is most recent. Benefits provided to members in the agreement dated January 3, 2005, shall accrue based on all credited service granted and earned in accordance with this section.
[Amended 11-3-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-2]
Payment for any obligation established by the adoption of this article, the agreement between the Board and Dickinson Township, and any duly approved amendments of the agreement from time to time, shall be made by the Township in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law and Act 205 of 1984, the Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard and Recovery Act.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 895.101 et seq.
[Amended 11-3-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-2]
As part of this article, the Township agrees that the system shall provide the benefits set forth in the agreement between the Board and Dickinson Township, dated January 3, 2005, as duly amended from time to time. The passage and adoption of this article by Dickinson Township is an official acceptance of said agreement, any duly approved amendments and the financial obligations resulting from the administration of said benefit package. Dickinson Township hereby assumes all liability for any unfundedness created or which may be created due to the acceptance of the benefit structure outlined in the above-referenced agreement, as duly amended from time to time.
Dickinson Township intends this article to be the complete authorization of the Township's municipal pension plan and it shall become effective and specifically repeal Ordinance Number 02-03 either immediately or on January 1. 2005, which is the effective date of the agreement dated January 3, 2005, between the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System and Dickinson Township, whichever is later.
[Amended 11-3-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-2]
A duly certified copy of this article, the referenced agreement and any duly approved amendments to the agreement shall be filed with the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Membership for the municipal employees of Dickinson Township in the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System shall be effective the first day of January 2003, with the revised plan structure reflected in the agreement dated January 3, 2005, effective the first day of January 2005, and with the effective date of any future revised plan structure as hereafter established by amendment of the agreement from time to time.