Oakdale Municipal Code § 22-18 Firemen's relief and pension fund – Member of fire department defined

[Ord. No. 252 § 2; Ord. 368, § 1; Ord. No. 550, § 1.]

"Member of fire department" means any person appointed or selected or sworn as a full-time member of the regularly constituted fire department of the city, and, in addition, includes the fire chief, assistant fire chief and regularly employed relief men of the fire department of the city, but excludes any person initially hired as a member of the fire department on or after November 4, 1970. Volunteer firemen of the city fire department are expressly excluded from the definition of the term "member of the fire department."

[Ord. No. 555, § 1.]

A member of the fire department may retire from service pursuant to this section. Upon receipt of a member's application for retirement or upon the board's own order without application, the board shall order the member retired from further service. From the date of the order the service of the member in the fire department ceases and during his lifetime he shall be paid from the fund an annual pension based upon the following schedule:

(a) If he has attained the age of sixty years and served in the fire department for twenty years or more in the aggregate, his annual pension shall be one-half of the annual salary attached to the rank he held for one year next preceding retirement.

(b) If he has attained the age of sixty years and served in the fire department for thirty years or more in the aggregate, his annual pension shall be two-thirds of the annual salary attached to the rank he held for one year next preceding retirement.

(c) If he has attained the age of fifty-five years and served in the fire department for twenty-five or more consecutive years, his annual pension shall be one-half of the annual salary attached to the rank he held for one year next preceding retirement.

[Ord. No. 549, §§ 1, 2; amended by Ord. No. 927.]

A contract between the city council and the board of administration, California Public Employees' Retirement System is authorized. The mayor is authorized, empowered and directed to execute such contract for and on behalf of the city.

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Editor's note: The contract referred to in this section is not set forth in this volume, but will be found on file in the office of the city clerk.

[Ord. 581, § 1, 1977.]

The combined board of police and fire pension fund commissioners provided for under Article 2 of this chapter shall have the same powers, duties and responsibilities insofar as the firemen's relief and pension fund is concerned as set forth in Article 2 for the police relief and pension fund.