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Ffremea's Pelmion coQQlMfo!ler 

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Dear sir: Oplnlon Ho. o-5515 

.' &: U&k the given ia6t8, 6uq 

the towa of GaxWri Oaka -pcrtl- 

: alpate in the benotit8 of thk 

~resma*a Dlaabllity and Ret1rcQent au%i? 

will aaknowledpg rcoelpt 0C ycnirimuont l*tFr 

ger1ornr ", . 

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town o? Garden Oska, ??arrls County, Folit -~ 

Orrloe maeton. Texea,.whlohhes a regularly or&anlxsd Sirs degex%acnt; lzas applied to this I)eparlSmnt r0r partiolpetion in the Firemen’s Di6abllit.y and 

Hatfrssaant Fund, operated tier the provlsioas of 

Art. 624+a, Rtwleed Oltll Stetuter oi Texas. 

.OTht, town of f&n-den Oaks 10 .not lno'orporcted aa 

0 8;ty, but ifi f66Or~r.-st& (LB 6 W6t6r di8tdOt, 

Chapter 311, 3'1th 128, Voluns 23, Vex-norm annotatad 

Cl011 Cjtatutau of tha %8te of Texas. 

&iaae adrlsa u6 if, la your opl~Ion. thls department mag partlolpate Uthe bent<lts ca,i the Plmmen's Clseblllty and kbtlreatent Pan6 as shown 8tiott0.~ 

Xc quote in part f?*)n See. 3 0: Art. 6243e, Vernon's 

Anmtated Civil Statutes; 

Th%t all incorporatsd alties r.nd towm# in thla 

.- .:tzte t'avlzy R rt?~ul~i:ly ix.~rrnlzod aatlve rim departrat-nti vihethcr wh,olly paid , pax-t wld or ~016nteer. 
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Ron. Bayne Sattexfield, p. 2. 

3wlt~ fire rlmk!~ a;:paratua and aqalpmant or the 

valae or On6 Thousand Dollars ($lOfJO) or more, the 

Xayer of suoh alty or town, the olty drtm tmaauzer, or ii m tra6atmr, than tho-alty awretrry;alty 

alark, or suah other garaon or ottleer as by law, 

aharter ptislon, or-oxUl~naa perloma the duty' 

of oity treasurer, aa three (sf 66mb6z-6 6r 6136h 

ramlarly organized eotlro iira departmant,to be’ '. . 

.aelaatad by rota of the mombora of auoh Mm Uapartmeat Ln tha mwusr hemlnafter dlreotad shall be and 

am hereby OOrMltUtM tha'*Board Oi Flrc8uo'a kkller 

aal Batlramnt Fmid Tmat6ed to rwieiv6, h664lla sad 

oontml, nbaaagii, nP4 dlobur#e suoh Rmd fortbe mapaetlve olty or town an4 66 8uohBoard shnll hove 

the power and sutbority to hear and datenaina all . 

applloatione for retirement, .clalms for dlaablllty, 

elthar pmtlal or tot& aniI to dea1gnat.o the benari0i6a3 or peram 4it~tl8d ta partloipato thorsin 

0-r tharafmm aa hanlnafter dlreoted end tiloh said.-, 

Boati shall .be knosn aa.tba V3a6rd or F~MMU~~S &allof ad l2ctlreawmt FunU Trtmteca of 

TM Hayor shall ba the ohalmeu aad tmiy*?tiror shall be the aeorataxy-treasurer of se18 Boord of :_~ 

Truataeu reapeotlve3.y.~ . .~ . Suoh Board of .S'ruuteshall bold kegalar monthly meetlngm it ~saah~tka and 

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laea as they may by remolutlon Qeul~te a,& may 

ld l tmh lpeola& meetlags upon aall of the obalmut : 

as- hemay dean naoeuaary~ elm11 keep aoourato mlnutaa 

ol 'itr meatlqa curd reaordu’ of its proaecUng6; shall 

k eel oparati p fr o all m other olty or M wn funds elk 

money6 for the us6 aad Eoneflt of said Flromn~a Ra- 

‘Me? and Ratlreiuaat&nd:ahall kzaepa rsoord ot all 

alalma, reoelpta, and dlnbwaamnta lna book or booka 

to‘be iunrlshad by said alty'or town for th6 porpoae; 

6ballrmaIce ~laburaemeda from uald Fund only upon 

regular voaoher algned by the traaanrer and oounteralaned by the ahalman and et least one other mmbsr 

ot 8ald Board OS Tmat666. Tha olty or town trmaurer, acthe treesurer ot aaid Board of T-tees, shall 

bs ths ooatodlen of the ?lmmenta Rallat an4 fIatirehbnt Fund rm suah oitp and town uader penalty of hi.6 

ottlola bond an& oath oi offloe. No mamber of said 

Board oi Tmstma shall reaslva ooapenmtlon as suoh. 
Eon. Bayno Satterflold, p. 3 

Said Beard oS.ylremcn*c Rcllof end Retiremnt Fund 

Trwtaaa of ecoh auoh olty of town in this Xata 

ehcll annually and not Later then the Slat day ot 

January of etch year after thJ6 A8t takes attetit, 

mab mad Nle wlth.the Tlmmanta ?analan Ccmatlaslon- 

. _.. i ar,~henlnpwvldad tor&a deWled andlWm%sad raport o t l ll reoelpta and d1aMraemant.a with mpeot 

. to auoh Yondt togcthcrwlth a atataaent of thclr 

. admlolatmtloa thereof and shall make au< Sllo aooh 

other reports and.statemonta, or furclah au6h forther lnfomatlon ea. fma tlmc tu the, myjrbc-reqalrcd 

or rcqucated by ma18 Fircma'a yaoalon Comlssloaer. 

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Se hnve fokad uo provlaion in Art. 6243e, aupra; poaltlvely 

lbltlng its punlem to tire dapartaents or~lncorpurctcd oltlaa or 

towna la'thle State: however, the above quoted laagac~a frnn Seo. 3, 

do&a In otiicot so liailt the aoopgot the Flremcnta Rellcf r?enalon 

Fundi Thla acotlon deola with the oom~altlon of the ikmrd ot'Trwto~s,. 

whloh Sa the auatodlaa srod adainlstrctor or Its -PeasIon Fond. 

,The Boald'of Tmstaea la oomposed. ot the aay& an&city 

wlththrca mcabra oi the reizuiarlv oreea.iaad l otira fl 

trmanrer of 81~ lwomoratod alto or t&m ot this &a%e$up$z 

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mot OS auoh tom or oit . The mayb aid olty treastirer~y are- raspeotlraly the ohcinxm czd trcfmurer of the Bocrd.! In fcot, the 

.ntlra atruaturc or the Boerd~la built 6nm6d the ottlol6ls 6t 

inoorpolnted cities or towns @id members of, tlm departpemta of 

such oitlea end towna. .iYe have iown no Other provialon ior the 

tonmlctlon or the Board end knac ai none under the prcacat word- 

%n&u?.thc Aot. .l.._ ".. .~_ 

The i3oc~Q of Truatoca 1s the sscabtism of the Pcnslon 

Fusxl; throuah lt~ all claims crc prcecntcd cad settled and all 

reoelpts ati= dlaburoeacnte oi a~~cye bclong& tc the puad arc 

hmdlcd. Ylthout awh a Board, neturclly the entlrc syatcc aurmuaXIng the Tcoslon Fund oould not opercte. 

,:n incorporated water dlstrlot Is not an lncorpomted _ 

olty 3f town. It !mwra no ‘myor or olty treasurer. In taot, the 
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htt&b&utse of I& incorporated oitv or town em diitinot andsapmete ~tnm those or an lnoorparated water distrlot. Se thus 

db not bellee+e a Bollrd oi Trtmtder aould be omposed under an 

Inoosposated waterdlstrict 8et up aocordinr; td the psovl8lon11 

or Art. 624Be, aupsa* 

It ia therefore thc~'upinlan oi .M& aepkent teat 

your queetlon should be anmered fin the nwtim. +._, 

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