[Added 2-14-2006 by Ord. No. 1776[1]]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal of former Art. III, Employee Retirement, added 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1465 and amended through 2-22-2000 by Ord. No. 1683.
The City of Clairton, 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, Act 15 of 1974, as amended, and does hereby agree to be bound by all the requirements and provisions of said law, and to assume all obligations, financial and otherwise, placed upon member municipalities. 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.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 881.401 et seq.
Membership in the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System shall be mandatory for all full-time and part-time municipal employees of the City. Membership for elected officials and employees hired on a temporary or seasonal basis is optional. The election by elected officials and temporary or seasonal employees to join the system must be made within one year after the official or the employee first enters the service of the City. Membership for individuals paid only on a fee basis is prohibited.
Credit for prior service for original members is granted for each year or partial year thereof that the member was employed by the City from original date of hire or the expiration of the member's probationary period if one so existed. Benefits provided to members in the agreement dated February 14, 2006,[1] shall accrue based on all credited service granted and earned in accordance with this section.
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Editor's Note: Said agreement is on file in the City offices.
Payment for any obligation established by the adoption of this article and the agreement between the Board and the City of Clairton shall be made by the City in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law[1] and Act 205 of 1984, the Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard and Recovery Act.[2]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 881.401 et seq.
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 895.101 et seq.
A. 
As part of this article, the City agrees that the system shall provide the benefits set forth in the agreement between the Board and the City of Clairton, dated February 14, 2006.
B. 
The passage and adoption of this article by the City of Clairton is an official acceptance of said agreement and the financial obligations resulting from the administration of said benefit package. The City of Clairton hereby assumes all liability for any unfundedness created due to the acceptance of the benefit structure outlined in the above-referenced agreement.
The City of Clairton intends this article to be the complete authorization of the City's municipal pension plan and it shall become effective and specifically repeal Ordinance Number 1683 either immediately or on January 3, 2005, which is the effective date of the agreement dated February 14, 2006, between the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System and the City of Clairton, whichever is later.
A duly certified copy of this article and the referenced agreement shall be filed with the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Membership for the municipal employees of the City of Clairton in the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System shall be effective the first day of February 1964, with the revised plan structure reflected in the agreement dated February 14, 2006, effective the third day of January 2005.