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.
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, shall accrue based on all credited service granted and
earned in accordance with this section.
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 and Act 205 of 1984, the Municipal Pension Plan Funding
Standard and Recovery Act.
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.