Stockton Municipal Code Ch. 2.40 Pension, Relief and Retirement Systems

The City has adopted a number of ordinances providing for the payment of pension, relief, disability and retirement benefits for its employees, but has discarded them one by one until on July 21, 1944, the City Council authorized a contract between the City of Stockton and the California State Employees' Retirement System, under which system all pension, relief, disability and retirement benefits would be paid.

Ordinance No. 283, adopted February 21, 1901, was the first ordinance adopted creating a police relief and pension fund. It remained in effect until repealed and superseded by Ordinance No. 698.

Ordinance No. 698, adopted June 13, 1919, created a relief, health, life insurance and pension fund for members of its Police and Fire Departments, and remained in effect until repealed by Ordinance No. 853, adopted September 24, 1923.

Ordinance No. 854, adopted October 8, 1923, created a relief, health, life insurance and pension fund for members of its Police and Fire Departments. It was amended a number of times and remained in effect until it was repealed and superseded by Ordinance No. 1084.

Ordinance No. 1084, adopted February 27, 1928, provided for a Pension Board; a health and relief fund for retired members of its Police and Fire Departments, or their dependents, and for administration of the pension and relief fund. It was amended a number of times and remained in effect until repealed and superseded by Ordinance No. 1278.

Ordinance No. 1278, adopted June 13, 1932, provided for a Pension Board; for pension and relief benefits for disabled or retired members of its Police and Fire Departments, and for beneficiaries of deceased members thereof. It further provided for a pension and relief fund and for its administration. It was amended no less than 20 times and remained in effect until repealed by Ordinance No. 2080.

Ordinance No. 2080, adopted July 12, 1948, provided that all future pension and retirement benefits for employees of the City, would be paid through the California State Employees' Retirement System (The City having entered into a contract with such system, pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance No. 1785, July 21, 1944).

Initiative Ordinance No. 2715, adopted October 17, 1953, provided for an additional allowance or increase in the sum of $50.00 per month (effective January 1, 1954) to be paid to members of its Police and Fire Departments, retired under provisions of Ordinance No. 1278, and that such additional allowance or increase be paid through the means and facilities of the California State Employees' Retirement System.

Ordinance No. 2723, adopted April 19, 1954, provided for an additional allowance or increase in the sum of $50.00 per month (effective June 1, 1954) to be paid to members of its Police and Fire Departments, retired under provisions of Ordinances Nos. 854 and 1084, that such additional allowance or increase be paid by the City, and not through the means and facilities of the California State Employees' Retirement System, and further, that such additional allowance or increase would not apply to widows/widowers of deceased Police Officers or Firefighters.

(Prior code § 2-019.1)