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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 11, Page 249, No Ordinance NumberI= I- 24 � ` fr AN ORDINANCE PLACING OFFICES AND POSITIONS OF TRUST OR EMPLOYMENT IN THE SERVICE OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, UNDER CIVIL SERVICE RULES AND REGULATIONS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF KRS 90.300 TO 90.990; PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE COI,24ISSIONERS, FIXING AND PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICA- TIONS, TERPrIS OF OFFICE, P010RS AND DUTIES OF SAID COMMISSIONERS; PRESCRIBING THE RULES BY WHICH THE BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE CO1,N4- ISSIONERS SHALL BE GOVERNED IN THE GIVING OF EXAMINATIONS TO APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT; FIXING THE NUMBER, CLASSIFICATION AND SALARIES OF ALL EMPLOYEES IN EACH DEPARTMENT WHO SHALL BE AFFECTED BY THE CIVIL SERVICE .RULES AND REGULATIONS PROVIDED HEREIN; AND PRESCRIBING THE RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE CONDUCT OF ALL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED THEREBY AND THE CAUSES FOR WHICH ANY EMPLOYEE MAY BE REPRIMANDED, SUSPENDED, DISMISSED OR REMOVED FROM EMPLOYMENT IBY THE CITY; PROVIDING FOR AND ESTABLISHING A RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PENSION FUND FOR APPOINTIVE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND AUTHORIZING THE LEV OF A TAX AND THE ASSESSMENT OF EMPLOYEES FOR THE CREATION AND MAIN- TENANCE OF SAID FUND; PROVIDING FOR THE APPOIN'MEJT OF A BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ADMINISTER SAID FUND; FIXING AND PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICATIONS, TERMS OF OFFICE, POTERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD OF TRUSTEES; PRESCRIBING THE RULES AND REGULATIONS BY WHICH SAID BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ALL APPOINTIVE EMPLOYEES SHALL BE GOVERNED WITH REFERENCE TO THE GRANTING AND ALLOWANCE OF' PENSIONS AND OTHER BENEFITS; AND PROVIDING A SEPARABILITY CLAUSE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SEC TION 1. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in this ordinance, unless a different meaning is plainly shown by the conte. shall have the following meaning. (a) "Employee" means any person employed in the conduct of municipal afDAirs, including the head of a department and each administrative employee appointed by the City Manager,'but the term shall not include the Mayor, a member of the Board of Commissioners the City Manager, a member of the Police or Fire repartment, a memb of the Board of Trustees of the Policemen and Firemen Pension Fund, with the exception of the City Treasurer who serves as an ex-offici member, the City Planning and Zoning Board, the Board of Adjustment City Planning and Zoning, the City of Paducah Municipal Housing Comi fission, the City of Paducah Municipal Hospital Commission, the Commissioners of the Paducah ',ater Works, the Board of Trustees of Public Library, or any employee of said boards or commissions, or t e 250 trustee, member or corresponding officer of any similar boards or commissions of a city of the second class now or hereafter created, or any employee of such boards or commissions, or to any person / employed on temporary and special projects, or to any person whose regular employment with the city is seasonal and is less than nine months in any one year. (b) "Appointing authority" means the officer, commission, board or body having the power of appointment or removal in any office, department, commission, board or institution. (c) "Civil Service" means the offices and positions of trust not specifically excluded by _{RS 90.310 to 90.410 or by ordinance of the city. (d) "Commission" means the board of Civil Service Commission- ers as established under KRS 90.310. (e) "The Board of Trustees" shall mean the Board of Trustees of The Appointive Employees' Pension Fund created under the pro- visions of this ordinance. (f) "Pension Fund" means the moneys derived from the employee and the lev:✓ of a special tax, either or both, or any other sum derived °rom any other source, to be used for the retirement of employees after the prescribed years of service and for the benefit of disable 3mployees, and widov;s and dependent children in the case of death of an employee within the scope of his employment according; to the term of KRS 90.310 to 90.410 and the ordinances of the city. (g) "Widow" as used in this ordinance shall mean any woman _egally married to an employee where there has been no decree of livorce dissolving the marriage and where the wife has not, at the ;Irre of the death of the employee, voluntarily abandoned him. SEC TION 2. The provisions of this ordinance are independent of and do not .ffect the laws governing the Police and c1re Departments. SECTION 3. (a) That within ten (10) days after this ordinance shall beem e affective, there shall be created pursuant to the provisions of KRS 10.310 a commission to be composed of three commissioners, and to be nown as the "Board of Civil Service Commissioners of the City of Paducah", which commissioners shall be appointed by the MA yor, subje t o the approval of the Board of Commissioners of the City, and whose uties it shall be to hold examinations as to qualifications of pplicants for municipal employment within the several departments o he city. Each appointee shall be at least thirty (30) years of age nd not related either by blood or marriage to either the Mayor or a y ember of the Legislative body of the city. Such appointees shall :, 251 originally be appointed one for a term of one (1) year; one for a term of two (2) years and one for a term of three (3) years, respec - ively, and the successors to such appointees shall be appointed in like manner each for a period of three (3) years and until his successor is appointed and qualified and each commissioner shall receive for his services a salary of y5.00 per year. At the time of any appointment, not more than two (2) commissioners shall be adherents of the same political party. Vacancies shall be filled i the manner as provided under KRS 90.310. The city manager shall have the right to specify whether an examination shall be given to men, or only to women, or to both men and women when any position or positions are required to be filled. (b) The City Clerk shall serve as ex -officio secretary at all meetings of said commission and the Corporation Counsel shall advise with and represent- said commission in the handling of all legal matters requiring the services of an attorney. SEC TION 4. (a) It shall be the duty of the Commission to prescribe and prof/:' pound such examinations as may be deemed proper, commensurate with the vacant positions within the various departments of said City, according to the classifications prescribed by this ordinance, or which may be hereafter prescribed, and they shall give notice of such examination, fix the tine thereof and conduct the same in the manner provided by the aforesaid statutes. (b) No person shall be eligible for employment by the city, nor (shall be permitted to take any examination held by the Commission i he is under twenty-one years of age or is over forty-five years of age, or if he is unable to read and write and understand the Englis language. No person shall be eligible for employment in the Fina nc Department, the Engineering Department or the Law Department who has not had a high school education unless in the opinion of said Commis- sion, his business training and experience has been equivalent to that of a high school education. Except in case of emergency and i the manner as provided in KRS 90.300 to 90.990 when such emergency arises, all appointments to fill vacancies in the various positions provided under this ordinance, or the appointments to any new position created by ordinance, shall.be made by the City aanager's selection of one of the three holding the highest average in the class and grade certified to him by the Commission. SECTION 5. Every soldier, sailor, marine and every woman who served in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States in the 'Nar with the Axis Powers, and who has been honorably discharged, is a resident and voter of the city, and echo is an applicant for any position in NJ 9. /y So // Z 252 the Civil Service, shall be entitled to five percent increase on his or her examination mark. SEC TION 6. All employees who, at the time of the adoption of this ordina are in the employ of the city shall not be required to stand an original eXamination and shall be eligible for all of the benefits provided hereunder. SECTION 7. a0 ----Lai There shall be employed in the Finance Department of the City a3 -/y`(7 of Paducah ten (10) persons and the position and salary of each, �Sy provided the amount of such salary is not changed under any appor- tionment ordinance hereafter adopted, shall be as follows: /off Position Salary per Month (1) Treasurer (Head of Department) (2) Deputy Treasurer u190.00 .50 -Pt (3) Assessor 190.00 (4) Deputy Assessor 152.50 ( 5 ) Auditor 167.50 ws�, 6��qi (6) Bookkeeper 157.50 13 rS ° (7) Deputy Treasurer 147.50 of (8) Deputy Treasurer 147.50 (9) Deputy Treasurer 137.50 (10) Deputy Assessor 127.50 SECTION 8. J-1.1 'There shall be employed in the Engineering Department of the City of Paducah six (6) persons and the position and salary of each�l provided the amount of such salary is not changed by any annual apportionment ordinance hereafter adopted, shall be as follows: R./ySa // Position Salary per Month (1) City Engineer (Head of Department) $237.50 (2) Chief of Party 225.00 '7 1 (3 ) Instrument man 192.50 (4) Rodman 152.50 IV -/2- (fes` (5) Chairman 137.50 /7-74 (6) Secretary 135.00 SEC TION 9. There shall be 'employed in the Legal Department of the k City of Paducah two (2) persons and the position and salary of each provided the amount of such salary is not changed by any annual apportionment ordinarre hereafter adopted, shall be as follows: Position Salary per Month (1) Corporation Courisel $280.00 (2) Assistant Corporation Counsel 128.75 SECTION 10. There shall be employed in the Cemetery Department of the QQ City of Paducah five (5) persons and the position and salary of 6,,w,v-&-2 each, provided the amount of such salary is not changed by any annual apportionment ordinance hereafter adopted, shall be as a` follows: � ace SECTION 11. There shall be employed in the Street Department of the Cit of Paducah thirty-three (33) persons and the position and salary of each, provided the amount of such salary is not changed by any annual apportionment ordinance hereafter adopted, shall be as follows: Position Salary per Month (1) Superintendent (Head of Department '232.50 (2) Foreman 185.00 (3) Bookkeeper 157.50 (4) Watchman 157.50 (5 ) :ia tc hman 97.19 Salary per Hour 253 (6) Mechanic 1st Class 1 Position Salary per Month (7 ) (1) Superintendent $167.50 ' Machine Operators 5 1.02 Salary per Hour (9) I (2) Grave Dugger,775 (10) (3) Grave Digger .775 (11) (4) Grave Digger ,775 (12) (5) Grave Digger ,775 SECTION 11. There shall be employed in the Street Department of the Cit of Paducah thirty-three (33) persons and the position and salary of each, provided the amount of such salary is not changed by any annual apportionment ordinance hereafter adopted, shall be as follows: Position Salary per Month (1) Superintendent (Head of Department '232.50 (2) Foreman 185.00 (3) Bookkeeper 157.50 (4) Watchman 157.50 (5 ) :ia tc hman 97.19 Salary per Hour 253 (6) Mechanic 1st Class 1 '1.075 (7 ) Mechanic 2nd Class 1 .905 (8) Machine Operators 5 1.02 (9) Truck Drivers 5 .85 (10) General Repairmen 1 .96 (11) Street Repairmen 3 .905 (12) Laborers 8 .795 (13) Sewer Maintenance Men 4 1.02 SECTION 12. There shall be employed certain persons who are not assigned ,J /a to any department of the City of Paducah and the position and salary<==J---' of each such persons, provided the amount of such salary is not changed by any annual apportionment ordinance hereafter adopted, /rdc�9s�a shall be as follows: Position Salary per Month (1) Secretary to City Manager and Mayor y200.00 (2) City Clerk 200.00 (3) City Alcoholic Beverage Administrator 108.75 (4) Building Inspector 200.00 (5) Market Master 185.00 (6). Weighmaster 120.00 (7) Wharfmaster 107.50 (8) Dog Catcher 177.50 (9) Elevator Operator 120.00 (10) Janitor 120.00 (11) City Physician (white) 221.25 (12) City Physician (colored) 163.75 (13) Social Worker 63.75 (14) Dump Wat@hman 30.75 _ SECTION 13. Salaries of all employees of the city may be decreased uniformly at the time of the adoption of the annual apportionment ordinance and all officers and employees of the city shall be bound thereby. 254 SEC TION 14. Full seniority rights shall be vested in all employees affects by this ordinance which means that the employee who is oldest in point of service in each department shall rank first, and all other shall rank in order thereafter according to the period of service they have had with the city. Employees not assigned to any depart- ment of the city shall also be vested with full seniority rights ani each, so far as the position he holds, shall be deemed to rank firs in that position. Provided, however, in the event the city by ordinance authorizes the employment of more than one person to work in the same position as those held by the persons not now assigned to any department, they shall be subject to and be governed by the same seniority rules as apply to persons now holding the same positions in any department. SECTION 15. Whenever, from any cause, there shall be a vacancy in any of the classified services, the employee in said classification nex highest in seniority, if he chooses, shall succeed to and fill said vacancy, unless upon charges made by the City that said employee is not qualified to fill said vacancy, and after notice and upon trial to determine his qualifications in the same manner as is now requirl for the dismissal, suspension or reduction in grade or pay of an em � ployee, it be established by the city that said employee has not the necessary qualifications to enable him to discharge the duties of tl. office or position in which the vacancy occurs. Provided that: In case of a vacancy in the classified services, where peculiar and ex� ceptional qualifications of a particular professional or educational character are required, upon satisfactory evidence that for reasons stated in writing by the appointing authority, competitive -examin- ations in such cases is impractical, the commission may suspend competitive examinations under civil service. SECTION 16. (a) Whenever in the judgment of the roard of Commissioners, it becomes necessary in the interest of economy or it appears that a position in any department is no longer required, the youngest employee in point of service in that department shall be laid off and the City Manager may make such reassignment of employees to positions within such department as he may believe is necessary and proper. The employee of such department who is to be laid off in this manner shall have the right -to take over the position held by an employee of the City of Faducah younger in point of service if i the Commission finds that he performs substantially the same charac of work as that employee whose position he seeks to fill and that he is qualified to fill said position. i :t 255 (b) If for the same reasons it shall become necessary to abolish the position of any employee who is not assigned to a department, said position may be abolished by ordinance. The employee whose position is abolished shall have the right to take over the position held by an employee of the City of Paducah younger in point of service if the Commission finds that he performs substantially the same character of wor'.t as that employee whose position he seeks to fill and that he is qualified to fill said position. (c) Should the position which has been abolished as provide in subsections (a) and (b) hereof, or any position having sub- stantially the same duties be re -instated or created within five (5) years, the employee who has been laid off shall be eligible to be appointed thereto in preference to any other qualified person on the eligible list for such position. If more than one position in any department shall be abolished or more than one employee in such department is discharged as a measure of economy, the employee having the greatest seniority shall be suspended last. (d) The coard of Commissioners may abolish a department of the city and the employees therein shall have the same rights as that of an employee whose position is abolished as provided in subsections (a) and (b) hereof. If such department shall, within five (5) years thereafter, be re-established by ordinance, ,the employees who were laid off will be eligible to return to duty lin preference to any other qualified persons on the eligible list u Ifor positions similar to those which they formerly held. (e) The Board of Commissioners may also by ordinance decrease from time to time the number of employees in any depart- ment and the employees so laid off shall have the rights provided in subsections (a) and (b) hereof, and they shall be placed on the eligible list to return to duty if their positions are recuirec to be refilled at any time within five (5) years thereafter. SECTION 17. It shall bA the duty of the City Manager to keep at all t a record of all employees who are not assigned to any department o, the City, and the head of each department shall likewise keep a record of all employees working under him, the record so kept bein; a roster showing the name of each employee, the position held by him and the date on which he entered the service of the city, and Ila copy of each shall be filed with the Board of Commissioners and spread upon the minutes of the first regular meeting of said board iiafter the adoption of this ordinance. In the event a vacancy is 256 '•� n -:,, .-3� filled, or a position is abolished, or the number of employees is reduced, or an employee is released from service for any reason, the City Manager or the head of the department wherein such change of personnel occurs shall immediately prepare and file with the Board of Commissioners a revised roster showing the respective rank and position of each person then employed. SECTION 18. No employee in the classified service of the city as designat by this ordinance, after serving a probationary period of six month shall be removed, suspended, reduced in grade or pay, for any reasc except inefficiency, misconduct, insubordination or violation of la involving moral turpitude. Provided, however, any employee may be 11removed, suspended, or reduced in grade or pay for any of the following specified causes: (1) Drinking beer, wine, whiskey, or any other alcoholic or intoxicating liquor while on duty. (2) Being under the influence of any intoxicant while either on or off duty. (3) Insubordination or disrespect to the City T.Sanager, or to any superior employee, the Utayor, or any member of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah. (4) Failure or refusal to perform any duty required in connection with his employment, or to do so when re- quested by the City Manager or the head of his depart- ment. (5) Such conduct as shows disrespect to any fellow employee or any member of the public. (6) Conviction of a felony in any court. (7) Attempting in any way to influence any persons vote in any election, or interferin. with or ob- structing the holding of any election or registration of any voters. (8) Suffering his pay or salary to be garnished three times within any one year for a just debt and necessaries for himself or for his family contracted during his employ- ment by the City. (9) Such mental or physical incapacity or disability as renders him incapable of properly performing his duty. (10) Fbandonment of, without just cause, or failure to support his family. (11) Any immoral habits or lascivious or improper conduct not herein enumerated which would render him unfit for em- ployment by the city. (12) Any form of impoliteness or rudeness in dealing with the public or in the performance of duty. (13) Being absent from duty without permission from either the City Manager or from the head of the department in which he is employed. (14) Any lack of interest and attention to duty, tardiness or other cause which prevents an employee from efficient] performing his duty. (15) Engaging in disputes or quarrels with any other employee or person while on duty, or usint- indecent or profane names or language in addressing another employee or another person. 0-, 257 SECTIO_NT 19. No employee shall be removed, suspended, reduced in grade o: pay until he has been duly notified of the charges preferred again. him and of the time and place of trial, and until he shall have be given the opportunity to be heard in the manner provided under KRS 90.300 to 90.990. SECTION 20. Pursuant to the provisions of KRS 90.400 to 90.990, a retire ment system for appointive employees of the city is hereby created and placed under the mana3ement of the Board of Trustees of the Appointive Employee's Pension Fund for the purpose of providing disability and retirement allowances and death benefits for employ- ees of the city. The payment of benefits under the retirement system provided herein shall not become effective until January 1st, 1949. T, _ � , n. re SECTION 21. �� CZLIuc�� The Board of Trustees of the appointive Employees Pension• :���� /7, 1�6� Fund shall have exclusive control and management of the pension /dW /4 oS fund and of all moneys donated or paid for the relief or pensioning)d�-' of employees. The membership of said board shall consist of the Mayor, who shall act as Chairman of said Loard, the City Manager, and three employees who shall be elected by all appointive employees every two years be3innin!- on the first Londay in January, 1948. The City Treasurer shall serve as ex -officio treasurer of said board but shall not have the right to vote on any question. SECTION 22. a z. Each appointive employee is hereby assessed one percent (1%) . of his or her monthly salary or wages beginning December 1, 1947, (F� ��'' 19r� the amount of such assessment to be oaid into the pension fund and placed by the City Treasurer to the credit of said fund subject to the order of said board of Trustees. SECTION 23. c r The Board of Commissioners shall annually levy a tax of One (1¢) cent on each One Hundred (R'100.00) Dollar valuation of taxable property in the city to create and maintain the pension fund herein provided for. SECTION 24. The Board of Trustees shall make all necessary rules and regu- lations for its government, shall hear and decide all applications for relief, pension or retirement allowances under this ordinance. A record shall be :sept of all the meetings and proceedings of said board. The City Clerk shall serve as ex -officio secretary at all o the meetings of said hoard of Trustees and it shall be the duty of the Corporation Counsel to consult with and represent said board of� 258 7-71 Trustees in all legal matters requiring the attention of an attorne. SEC TION 25. The pensions or benefits to be paid for disability or death From the appointive employee's pension fund shall be as follows: (a) If any member shall, from any case become temporarily totally disabled, either physically or mentally, while in the emplo - ment of the city, the Board of Trustees of the pension fund shall order paid to him monthly during his disability, but not longer tha one year, a sum of not more than sixty dollars per month, the amoun to be determined by the Board. This provision shall not apply if a salary is paid during the same period. (b) If any member becomes permanently disabled, either phy- sically or mentally, while in the employment of the city so as to render necessary his retirement from service, the Board of Trustees shall retire him from service and order paid to him each month fifty percent of his monthly salary at the time of his retirement. Such pension shall cease if the Board of Trustees on the basis of c n petent medical advice finds that the employee has been restored to mental or phys5.cal health so that he or she is capable of being gai - fully employed on a full time basis. (c) Upon the death of a member from any cause and such membe leaves a widow or a child under fourteen years of age, the board of Trustees shall order a pension paid to the widow or child. There shall be paid monthly to the widow, while unmarried, a monthly pens of thirty dollars, and for each child until it reaches the age of fourteen ,years, six dollars per month. If the deceased member was unmarried and childless, a pension shall be paid to his dependent father and mother of thirty dollars per month. If one parent is dead, the other shall receive the entire thirty dollars, and if both are living, each shall receive fifteen dollars. The pension provid in this section shall be effective on and after January 1, 1949. SECTION 26. The pensions or benefits to be paid from the pension fund on retirement shall be as follows: (a) Any member who, after January 1st, 1949, shall have g served from the time of his employment by the city twenty (20) years or longer and the last five (5) years thereof consecutively shall be permitted to make an application for a pension and by so (doing shall be granted a monthly pension in an amount equal to fifty (50a) percent of his monthly salary at the time of his re- tirement if he is then fifty-five (55) years of age or older. If ihe is under fifty-five years of age at the time he has been granted �a pension after twenty (20) years of continuous service as herein on 259 provided, the monthly pension in an amount equal to .fifty (500) percent of his monthly salary at the time of his retirement shall not be paid to him until he reaches fifty-five (55) years of age. (b) Any employee who, after January 1st, 1949, is sixty-fiv (55) years of age or shall reach that age, shall be required to retire from the services of the City of Paducah and shall, regardle of his period of service, be granted a monthly pension in an amount equal to fifty (50;x) percent of his monthly salary at the time of such retirement. Provided, however, at the request of any employee who has reached sixty-five years of age, the Commission may, in its discretion, e xtend his service for periods of two years each. (c) If any employee while in the service of the city has served or hereafter serves in any branch of the armed forces of the United States, such period of service shall be treated as his continuous employment by the City of Paducah. (d) Any employee applying for a pension shall file his application therefor not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days before the date on which he requests the same to become effective. SECTION 27 ;hen an active or retired member dies, the board of Trustees of the pension fund shall pay from the fund to the widow or family a sum of not more than one hundred dollars, for funeral expenses. SECTION 28 There shall be paid from the pension .fund all reasonable and necessary medical and hospital expenses incurred by any member duri9 a period of six months following and as a result of injuries receivgd while in the performance of duty, but such expenses shall not be paid if they are payable under a Blue Cross or other insurance SEC TION 29. The pension fund shall be held and distributed for the pur- pose of paying pensions and other benefits provided herein and for no other purpose. All benefits provided herein other than monthly pensions shall be paid in full and if the funds in the hands of the Board of'Trustees on January 1, 1949, or on the first day of Janua in any succeeding year, together with the amount anticipated from the collection of taxes and the assessments against employees for year beginnin.m January 1st, shall be insufficient for payment of t entire amount of monthly pensions which have been granted by the Board of Trustees, together with the estimated amount of any pensioils which may be granted during said year beginning January 1st, an equal percentage of the monthly payments due shall be paid to each employe or the widows or dependents of employees who have been granted pens ons t�:;WU. 260 --tt TT �, i _VvJ .'.a'a hereunder, or who may be granted such benefits during said year. I necessary, an adjustment shall be made at the end of each said year so that the total of the pension fund will have been used for the payment of benefits and each beneficiary will have received an equal percentage of his monthly pension. The amounts so paid until sufficient funds shall have accumu- lated in the pension fund on January 1st of any year for payment of entire amount of the pensions which have been granted shall be in full settlement of each beneficiary's pension for the year in which said amounts are paid. SECTION 30. The City Treasurer shall execute at the expense of the city a bond with good surety, in such penal sum as the Board of Trustees directs, to be arproved by said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as ex -officio treasurer of the board of Trustees, and that he will safely keep and well and truly account for all money and properties that come into his hands as treasurer of the pension fund, and that upon the expiration of his term of office he will deliver to his successor all securities, unexpended moneys and other properties that came into his hands as treasurer of the fund. SECTION 31 The Board of Trustees may draw the pension fund from the treasury and shall invest it, in whole or in part, in the name of the board, as the board deems most advantageous for the objects of the fund, in interest bearing bonds of any county, or any city in this state, or in any securities in which trustees are permitted to invest trust funds under the laws of this state. The securities shall be deposited with the treasurer of the board, and shall be sul ject to the order of the board. SECTION 32. Moneys ordered paid to any person from the pension fund by the Board of Trustees of the Appointive Employee's Pension Fund shall be paid by the City Treasurer only upon a warrant signed �'by the chairman of the board and countersigned by the secretary. L, LNo warrant shall be drawn except by order of the Board of trustees entered on the records of the proceedings of the board. (J_,�lr_X SECTION 33. If any section of this ordinance shall be held to be invalid unconstitutional, such fact shall not affect any other section of Ilthis ordinance, it beinC the intention of the Board of Commissioner 11 in enacting this ordinance to enact such section separately. the 261 SECTION 34. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. r Passed by the Board of Commissioners December 2nd, 1947 Recorede by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, Dec. 2nd, 1947.