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TX Civ Stat § 16 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243b. Firemen and Policemen Pension Fund in Cities of 500,000 to 600,000|Section 16. Separation of Firemen's and Policemen's Pension Funds in Certain Cities

Sec. 16. SEPARATION OF FIREMEN'S AND POLICEMEN'S PENSION FUNDS IN CERTAIN CITIES.  In any city or town subject to and operating under the Pension Law, the governing Body and Board of Trustees may, if it is deemed advisable and a majority of the members of said Fire Department or Police Department vote therefor, authorize and provide for the maintenance and administration of Pension Funds for each Department, said Funds to be the Policemen's Division of the Firemen and Policemen Pension Fund and the Firemen's Division of the Firemen and Policemen Pension Fund, to be kept independent of and apart from each other, and said Funds of each Department to consist of contributions by members of said Department, donations thereto and funds received from any source by said Department the purpose and effect of said division being to maintain the membership of and the payments into each Department separate, and to limit the rights of the members of each Department and their beneficiaries to the Pension Fund of their Department, and after the creation and establishment of a Firemen's Division of said Pension Fund and a Policemen's Division of said Pension Fund, the rights of Firemen shall be limited to the Firemen's Division of said Pension Fund, and the rights of Policemen and their beneficiaries shall be limited to the Policemen's Division of said Pension Fund.  After a separation has been voted and approved, as above provided, the Board of Trustees shall apportion the existing Firemen and Policemen Pension Fund between the two (2) Funds on the basis of contributions made by the members of the respective Departments and donations or payments to said Departments, and thereafter all payments to members or their beneficiaries of benefits, now accrued or hereafter accruing, shall be made from the Fund of their Department.  Where a separation of funds is had, as hereinabove provided, the governing body of any city or town whose voters have authorized the payment of funds from the public treasury into the Firemen and Policemen Pension Fund is hereby authorized to pay to the Board of Trustees, for the use of the Pension Fund of each division above provided for, sums not to exceed in total the amount voted by the people to be paid into the single fund.
TX Civ Stat § 1 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243c. Validating Elections for Pensions in Cities of Over 10,000|Section 1. Election and Proceedings Validated

Sec. 1. ELECTION AND PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED.  That where a majority of the resident taxpayers being qualified electors of any city or town in this State having a population in excess of ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants, having voted at an election held in such city or town in favor of the expending of public funds by such city or town in carrying out the provisions of Chapter 10, General Laws of the 36th Legislature, Regular Session, such election and all acts and proceedings had and done in connection therewith by the governing body of such city or town are hereby legalized, approved and validated and it is hereby declared that no further election shall be necessary for the expenditure of public funds to carry out the provisions of H.B. No. 30  and H.B. 31, of the First Called Session of the 43rd Legislature, but any election held under the provisions of Chapter 10, General Acts of the 36th Legislature, Regular Session, shall be and is hereby deemed to be sufficient to carry out the provisions of House Bill 30 and House Bill 31, of the First Called Session of the 43rd Legislature.
TX Civ Stat § 2 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243c. Validating Elections for Pensions in Cities of Over 10,000|Section 2. Validation of Elections Under Other Acts

Sec. 2. VALIDATION OF ELECTIONS UNDER OTHER ACTS.  Any other elections held in conformity with the provisions of Chapter 10, General Laws of the 36th Legislature, Regular Session, and adopting the provisions of said chapter are hereby legalized, approved and validated.  Any funds now on hand and belonging to the Firemen and Policemen Fund shall remain a part of said fund and all warrants and vouchers heretofore issued are hereby legalized, approved and validated.
TX Civ Stat § 3 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243c. Validating Elections for Pensions in Cities of Over 10,000|Section 3. Validation of Pensions Paid

Sec. 3. VALIDATION OF PENSIONS PAID.  All pensions heretofore paid by any city under the terms of Chapter 10, General Laws of the Thirty-sixth Legislature, Regular Session, including all pensions paid subsequent to the enactment of Senate Bill 139, Chapter 94, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, Regular Session, making said Act applicable only to certain cities and up to November 1, 1933, are hereby in all things expressly validated and legalized, and all persons to whom such pensions have been paid shall hereafter be deemed to be proper pensioners under the terms of H.B. No. 30 and H.B. 31, Acts of the First Called Session of the 43rd Legislature.
TX Civ Stat § 4 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243c. Validating Elections for Pensions in Cities of Over 10,000|Section 4. Pension Rolls Validated

Sec. 4. PENSION ROLLS VALIDATED.  All pensioners added to the pension rolls as pensioners under the terms of Chapter 10, General Laws of the Thirty-sixth Legislature, Regular Session, but subsequent to the enactment of Senate Bill No. 139, Chapter 94, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, Regular Session, making said Act applicable only to certain cities, shall hereafter be deemed proper and legal pensioners on the rolls of all cities wherein a pension system has been established under the terms of H.B. No. 30  and H.B. 31, Acts of the First Called Session of the 43rd Legislature.
TX Civ Stat § 5 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243c. Validating Elections for Pensions in Cities of Over 10,000|Section 5. Election in Certain Cities Unnecessary

Sec. 5. ELECTION IN CERTAIN CITIES UNNECESSARY.  All cities included in the population brackets of H.B. No. 30  and H.B. 31, Acts of the First Called Session of the 43rd Legislature, shall hereafter from the effective date of this Act be deemed to have a pension system without the necessity of any election or any action on the part of the City Council, and such City Council or Governing Board shall immediately provide adequate funds for the payment of pensions under the terms of H.B. No. 30 and H.B. 31 and the terms of this Act.|Acts 1933, 43rd Leg., 1st C.S., p. 89, ch. 30.|
TX Civ Stat § 1 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d. Pensions in Cities of 290,000 or Over|Section 1.

Sec. 1. In all incorporated cities and towns having a population of two hundred and ninety thousand (290,000) or more, according to the preceding Federal Census, the governing body of such city or town is hereby authorized to formulate and devise a pension plan for the benefit of all employees in the employment of such city or town.  Before said pension plan as devised and formulated by the governing body of such city or town shall become effective, said entire pension plan shall be submitted in ordinance form by said governing body to the qualified electors of such city or town and be approved by said qualified electors at an election duly held.  Said ordinance containing said pension plan when submitted to the qualified electors for approval, shall be so worded as to authorize the governing body of such city or town to either appropriate yearly out of the general revenue of such city or town a sufficient sum to carry out said pension plan, or to levy yearly a general ad valorem tax sufficient to provide for said pension plan, said sum to be appropriated yearly or to be raised by taxation, to be in addition to whatever sum, if any, to be contributed by the employees of such city or town to the pension fund of said pension plan.
TX Civ Stat § 2 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d. Pensions in Cities of 290,000 or Over|Section 2.

Sec. 2. Any pension plan devised or formulated by any such city or town which provides that all employees participating therein shall contribute a portion of their weekly, monthly or yearly salary, shall not be compulsory for the employees of such city or town, but shall apply only to those employees of such city or town who signify their willingness in writing to participate therein, and to have deducted from their weekly, monthly or yearly salaries, the sum as specified in said pension plan.Sec. 3. This Act shall not repeal Articles 6229 to 6243, both numbers inclusive, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended by Acts of 1933, Forty-third Legislature, page 206, Chapter 94, but the provisions of said Articles 6229 to 6243, as amended, shall not apply whenever a city or town as provided in this Act shall formulate, devise and adopt a pension plan according to the terms and provisions of this Act.|Acts 1935, 44th Leg., p. 728, ch. 317.|
TX Civ Stat § 1 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 1. Creation of Fund; Definitions

Sec. 1. CREATION OF FUND;  DEFINITIONS.  There is hereby created in all incorporated cities in this State having a population of two hundred and ninety thousand (290,000), or more, according to the preceding Federal Census, a fund to be known as the policemen's relief and retirement fund.  Said fund shall be administered in each such city by a board to be known as the policemen's relief and retirement board.The expression "pension fund," as used herein, shall mean the policemen's relief and retirement fund.  The expression "pension board," as used in this Act, means the policemen's relief and retirement board of each such city.  All members of the police department of any such city shall participate in said pension fund, and shall be subject to all of the provisions of this Act, save and except special officers, part-time officers, janitors, car washers, and cooks.  With the exceptions just named, it is the intention hereof to include everyone who is designated by any such city as a member of said police department, regardless of the particular duty or duties performed by such person.  The expressions "member" and "members," as used in this Act, mean members of any such police department who are entitled to participate in said pension fund as above set forth, that is, the entire personnel of any such police department, save and except special officers, part-time officers, janitors, car washers, and cooks, in each city.
TX Civ Stat § 2 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 2. Pension Board

Sec. 2. PENSION BOARD.  Said pension board in each such city shall consist of one person to be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council or governing body of such city, the city controller, or, if there be no city controller, then the person discharging the duties of the city controller in such city, and three (3) persons to be elected from the police department by the members.  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, said members of each such police department shall elect said three (3) members of said pension board, one to be elected until the next succeeding January 1st thereafter, and two (2) to be elected until the second January 1st following such election, and thereafter, as the terms expire, new members to said pension board shall be similarly elected to hold office until the second January 1st following their respective elections.  In case of vacancies, new members shall be elected to serve the unexpired term.  All persons elected to said pension board shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified.  Any member shall be eligible to election to said pension board.Said pension board shall annually elect a chairman, vice-chairman, and a secretary, from the members of said pension board.  Each one so elected, shall serve until his successor is elected.A meeting of said pension board may be called at any time by the chairman, secretary, or by any two (2) members of such pension board.  Three (3) members of said pension board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.Each member of said pension board shall take an oath that he will well and faithfully perform the duties of a member of such pension board.No moneys shall be paid out of the pension fund except upon an order by said pension board, duly entered in the minutes.
TX Civ Stat § 3 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 3. Treasurer of Pension Fund

Sec. 3. TREASURER OF PENSION FUND.  The city treasurer of any such city, or the person discharging the duties of the city treasurer, is hereby designated as the treasurer of the said pension fund for said city, and his official bond to said city shall operate to cover his position of treasurer of said pension fund.  All moneys of every kind and character collected or to be collected for said fund, shall be paid over to said treasurer, and shall be administered and paid out only in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
TX Civ Stat § 4 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 4. Per Capita Contributions

Sec. 4. PER CAPITA CONTRIBUTIONS.  Commencing with the next calendar month, immediately following the effective date of this Act, per capita contributions of all such members of each such police department as participate in such fund, as aforesaid, shall be made to said fund.  Said monthly per capita contribution shall be made as follows:  The salary and future salary of each member participating in such fund is hereby reduced Three Dollars ($3) per month, but said Three Dollars ($3) per month shall be paid by such city into the said pension fund.  No other money paid into said pension fund, however, shall be counted as a part of salary, under any law or ordinance fixing or pertaining to salaries of members, of any such police department.
TX Civ Stat § 5 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 5. Accumulated Funds

Sec. 5. ACCUMULATED FUNDS.  In all such cities where a general pension fund for city employees has been accumulated but has not been put into operation at the effective date of this Act, the governing body of each such city shall segregate from said fund, the proportion which the total number of members of the police department (eligible to said pension fund) bears to the entire number of all city employees, for whose benefit said fund was accumulated, and shall set aside such sum into the policemen's relief and retirement fund.
TX Civ Stat § 6 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 6. Assignments of Salary to Fund

Sec. 6. ASSIGNMENTS OF SALARY TO FUND.  Any members who have or may have any back or past due salary due them, from any such city, may assign all or any portion of such back salary to said pension fund, and such assignments as have or may hereafter be executed by any such members, are hereby validated and shall be recognized by the governing body of any such city, and such sums, if any, shall be paid into the said pension fund.
TX Civ Stat § 7 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 7. Appropriations to Fund Out of General Funds of City

Sec. 7. APPROPRIATIONS TO FUND OUT OF GENERAL FUNDS OF CITY.  Any such city may make additional appropriations from time to time out of its general fund, or otherwise, into the said pension fund, and hereafter when any such city shall make any appropriations for pensions of city employees or place any money into any such account, the proportionate amount thereof shall be placed in the policemen's relief and retirement fund.  Said pension fund may also be augmented as follows:  By the giving of entertainments and benefit performances;  by gifts or donations from any person, firm, or corporation;  all rewards hereafter paid to or due individual members for, or on account of service rendered by them as members of the police department, shall be paid into such fund;  and said pension fund shall also participate in funds otherwise provided or that shall hereafter be provided by law pertaining to police pensions of cities of the class herein provided for.
TX Civ Stat § 8 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 8. Investment of Surplus Funds

Sec. 8. INVESTMENT OF SURPLUS FUNDS.  Whenever, in the opinion of the said pension board, there is on hand in said pension fund, a surplus over and above a reasonably safe amount to take care of current demands upon such funds, such surplus, or so much thereof as in the judgment of the said pension board is deemed proper, may be invested in securities of the United States, the State of Texas, or of counties, school districts, or municipal corporations.  No investment shall be made, however, which does not meet with the approval of the city controller, if any, of such city.
TX Civ Stat § 9 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 9. Benefits to Begin Not Prior to January 1, 1942

Sec. 9. BENEFITS TO BEGIN NOT PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1942.  No benefits of any kind shall be paid out of said fund prior to January 1, 1942.
TX Civ Stat § 10 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 10. Pension Rates

Sec. 10. PENSION RATES.  From and after January 1, 1942, any member who shall have been a member of such police department for the period of twenty-five (25) years, and who shall have reached the age of fifty (50) years, shall be entitled to a retirement pension of Seventy-five Dollars ($75) per month for the rest of his life upon his retirement from said police department.  Upon the completion of the said twenty-five (25) years of service, such pension board shall issue to him a certificate showing that he is entitled to said retirement pension, and thereafter, when such member retires from the police department, whether such retirement be voluntary or involuntary, such monthly payments shall forthwith begin, and continue for the remainder of said member's life.  Provided, however, that payments shall not commence until such member is fifty (50) years of age, and further provided that members who are eligible for a pension but who continue in the department shall make their per capita contributions until they retire from the department.In computing the twenty-five (25) years service required for retirement pension, interruption of less than one year out of service, shall be construed as continuous service and such period out of service shall not be deducted from the twenty-five (25) years, but if out for more than one year and less than five (5) years, credit shall be given for prior service, but deduction made for the length of time out of service.  If out of service more than five (5) years, no previous service prior to said time shall be counted.Service with any such city in some other department, prior to January 1, 1939, shall be included in the twenty-five (25) years above provided for, but service after January 1, 1939, must be in the police department.  The pension board may, within its discretion, provide for the payment of such retirement pension to a former member or members of the police department who have heretofore served for the twenty-five-year period and who have reached the age of fifty (50) years, and it is the intention hereof to include in the group of former members those who have heretofore been retired by any such city and who are drawing partial pay or compensation from such city.
TX Civ Stat § 11 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 11. Disability Resulting From Performance of Duty

Sec. 11. DISABILITY RESULTING FROM PERFORMANCE OF DUTY.  If any member shall become totally or permanently disabled as a direct and proximate result of the performance of duties in the police department, said member shall be retired on a pension of Seventy-five Dollars ($75) per month.By total and permanent disability is meant such disability as permanently incapacitates a member from performing the usual and customary duties of a police officer.Before any retirement on disability pension is made, the pension board shall require such medical examination and such other evidence as it may see fit to establish such total and permanent disability, as above provided.When any member has been retired for total and permanent disability, he shall be subject at all times to re-examination by the pension board and shall submit himself to such further examination as the pension board may require.  If any member shall refuse to submit himself to any such examination, the pension board may within its discretion, order said payment stopped.  If a member who has been retired under the provision of this Section, should thereafter recover so that in the opinion of the pension board, he is able to perform the usual and customary duties of a police officer, and such member is reinstated or tendered reinstatement in the police department, then the pension board shall order such payments stopped.Said pension board may, at its discretion, retire on said permanent and total disability pension, those members of said police department who have heretofore become totally and permanently disabled, as that term is above defined.
TX Civ Stat § 13 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 13. Pension to Dependents, When

Sec. 13. PENSION TO DEPENDENTS, WHEN.  When any member who has been retired upon pension, whether retirement pension or disability pension, or when any member who has a pension certificate shall thereafter die from any cause, his pension of Seventy-five Dollars ($75) per month shall be payable to his dependents, if any, as is provided in the next preceding Section hereof, but only for the unexpired portion of ten (10) years.  In computing said ten (10) years, such length of time as a pension may have been paid to said member during his lifetime shall be deducted from such ten-year period, and such dependents shall receive said payment only for the unexpired term of ten (10) years.
TX Civ Stat § 14 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Vernon's Civil Statutes|Title 109 - Pensions|Article 6243d-1. Policemen's Relief and Retirement Fund|Section 14. Refunds on Leaving Service

Sec. 14. REFUNDS ON LEAVING SERVICE.  If any such member shall leave such police department either voluntarily or involuntarily before he is entitled to a pension, he shall have refunded to him the deductions from his salary, which have been paid into said pension fund.  Said payments may be made to him, either in a lump sum or on a monthly basis, as may be determined by the pension board.Provided, however, that this Section shall be subject to Section 10 and upon a re-entry into the department all such refunds shall be paid back into the pension fund or prior service of such member shall not be counted toward his retirement pension.