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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 11, Page 488, No Ordinance Number1- 488 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 26 OF AN ORDINANCE (ENTITLED: "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 COMMISSIONERS, FIXING AND PRESCRII;ING THE QUALIFICATI( TERMS OF OFFICE, POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID COMMISSIONERS; PRESCRIB- ING THE RULES BY WHICH THE BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS 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 AFFECT] 0 11 THEREBY AND THE CAUSES FOR WHICH ANY EMPLOYEE MAY BE REPRIMANDED, SUSPENDED, DISMISSED OR REMOVED FROM EMPLOYMENT BY THE CITY; PROVIDING FOR AND ESTABLISHING A RETIREM'[ENT SYSTEM AND THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PENSION FUND FOR APPOINTIVE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND AUTHORIZING THE LEVY OF A TAX AND THE ASSESSMENT OF FOR THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SAID FUND; PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ADMINISTER SAID FUND; FIXING AND PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICATIONS, TERMS OF OFFICE, POKERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD OF TRUSTEES; PRESCRIBING THE RULES AND REGU- LATIONS BY WHICH SAID BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ALL APPOINTIVE EMPLOYEE SHALL BE GOVERNED WITH REFERENCE TO THE GRANTING AND ALLOWANCE T PENSIONS AND OTHER BENEFITS; AND PROVIDING A SEPARABILITY CLAUSE", WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON DECEMBER 2, 1947 AND AMENDED ON FEBRUARY 24, 1948 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. That Section 1 of the ordinance entitled as quoted in the title of this ordinance be repealed, amended and re - ordained so that said section as amended and reordained shall read as follows: "SECTION 1. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in this ordinance, unless a different meaning is plainly shown by the context, shall have the following meaning: (a) "Employee" means any person employed in the conduct o, municipal affairs, including the head bf a department and each administrative employee appointed by the City Manager, with the exception of the Corporation Counsel, the Assistant Corporation Counsel, the City Alcoholic Beverage Administrator, the Delinquent Tax Attorney, the City Physician (white), and the City Physician 489 (Colored), but the term shall not include the Mayor, a member of thle Board of Commissioners, the City Manager, a member of the Police or Fire Department, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Policemen and Firemen's Pension Fund, with the exception of the City Treasurer who serves as ex -officio member, the City Planning and Zoning Boardl the Board of Adjustment, City Planning and Zoning, the City of Paducah Municipal Housing Commission, the City of Paducah Municipal Hospital Commission, the Commissioners of the Paducah Water Works, the Board of Trustees of the Paducah Library, or any (3mployee of sa d boards or commissions, or the trustee, member or corresponding officer i of any similar boards or commissions of a city of the second class now or hereafter created, or any employee of such boards or commission 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 KRS 90.310 to 90.410 or by ordinance of the city. (d) "Commission" means the board of Civil Service Commission - era 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 levy of a special tax, either or both, or by any other sum derived from any other source, to be used for the retirement of employees after the prescribed years of service and for the benefit of disabled employees, and widows and dependent children in the case of death of an employee within the scope of his employment according to the terms of KRS 90.310 to 90.410 and the ordinances of the city. (g) "Widow" as used in this ordinance shall mean any woman legally married to an employee where there has been no decree of divorce dissolving the marriage and where the wife has not, at the time of the death of the employee, voluntarily abandoned him." SEC TION 2. That Section 26 of the ordinance entitled as quoted in the title of this ordinance be repealed, amended and reordained so that said section as amended and reordained shall read as follows: "SECTION 26. The pensions or benefits to be paid from the pension fund on retirement shall be as follows: - ._ ... _ 1.71 —,— 490 I, (a) Any member who, after January 1, 1949, shall have (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 (501%) percent of his monthly salary at the time of his retire meet if he is then sixty (60) years of age or older. If he is unde sixty (60) years of age at the time he has been granted a pension after twenty (20) years of continuous service as herein provided, the monthly pension in an amount equal to fifty (50„) percent of his monthly salary at the time of his retirement shall not be paid to him until he has reached sixty (60) years of age. (b) Any employee who, after January 1, 1949, is sixty-five (65) years of age or shall reach that age, shall be required to retire from the service of the City of Paducah and shall, regard- less of his period of service, be granted a monthly pension in an amount equal to fifty (50%) percent of his monthly salary at the time of such retirement. Provided, however, at the request of any employee who has reached sixty-five (65) years of age, the Commiss may, in its discretion, extend his services for periods of two yea 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 during a war or national emergency declared by Congress or the President, such period of service shall be treated as continuous employment by the City of Paducah. (d) Any employees applying for a pension shall file his appli- cation 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 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption. Mayor Protem Paul e , Comm ss oner Passed by the Board of Commissioners April 20, 1948 Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, April 21, 1948.