HomeMy WebLinkAbout647 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA
RELATING TO FEDERAL OLD AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE.
ORDINANCE NO. fi:els? o
An ordinance declaring the policy and purpose of the City of
Sanford, Florida to extend to employees and officials of said City in the
position of policemen, and not excluded by law, nor hereinafter excepted,
the benefits of the system of Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance, as
authorized by the Federal Social Security Act, and amendments thereto, upon
the basis of applicable State and Federal laws or regulations; authorizing and
directing the Mayor to execute agreements and amendments thereto with the
State Agency authorized to enter into such agreements, subject to employee
referendum, for coverage of said employees and officials, and to request
such referendum; providing for withholding from salaries and wages of
employees and officials of said City so covered to be made and paid over
as provided by applicable State or Federal laws or regulations; providing
that the City shall appropriate and pay over employers' contributions,
assessments, and referendum ccsts, as provided by applicable State or
Federal laws or regulations; providing that said City shall keep records
and make reports as required by applicable State or Federal laws or
regulations; and providing that the effect of this ordinance shall cease
if a majority of the eligible employees do not vote in favor of such
coverage at such employee referendum.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: It is hereby declared to be the policy and purpose
of the City of Sanford, FIorida to extend effective as of January 1, 1959,
to employees and officials thereof in the position of policemen and not
excluded by law nor excepted herein, the benefits of the system of Old Age
and Survivors Insurance as authorized by the Federal Social Security Act and
amendments thereto, by chapter 650, Florida Statutes, as amended; and to
cover by such plan all of their services which constitute e~qployment as
defined by Section 650.02 Florida Statutes, performed in the employment
of said City, without exception.
SECTION 2: The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to
execute ail necessary agreements and amendments thereto with the State
Agency, and to request the Governor to authorize an employee referendum,
for the purpose of extending the benefits provided b~ the said system of
Old Age and Survivors Insurance to the employees and officials of said City
as specified in Section 1 hereof, which agreement shall provide for such
benefits of administration of the plan by said City as are found by the State
Agency to be necessary and proper, and, subject to employee referendum,
shall be effective with respect to services in employment covered by such
agreement performed on or after the first day of January, A. D. ][959.
SECTION 3: Withholdings from salaries, wages or other compen-
sation of employees and officials for the purposes provided in Section l hereof
are hereby authorized to be made, and shall be made, in the amounts and at
such times as may be required by applicable State or Federal laws or regu-
lations, and shall be paid over to the State Agency designated by said laws
or regulations to receive such amounts.
SECTION 4: There shah be appropriated from availabIe funds,
derived from the general fund, such amounts, at such times, as may be
required to pay promptly the contributions, assessments, and referendum
costs required by the City as applicant for employer by State or Federal laws
or regulations, which shall be paid over to the lawfully designated State Agency
at the times and in the manner provided by Iaw and regulation.
SECTION 5: The City shall keep such records and make such
reports as may be required by applicable State or Federal laws or regu-
lations, and shall adhere to the regulations of the St ate Agency.
SECTION 6: The City does hereby adopt the terms, conditions,
requirements, reservations, benefits, privileges and other conditions there-
unto appertaining, of Title II of the Social Security Act as Amended, for and
on behalf of all of its officers and employees to be covered under the agree-
ment.
SECTION 7: The finance director of the City is hereby designated
the custodian of ali sums withheld from the compensation of officers and
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employees and of the appropriated funds for the contribution of the City,
and the finance director of said City is hereby made the withholding and
reporting agent and charged with the duty of maintaining personnel records
for the purposes of this Ordinance.
SECTION 8: In the event that a majority of the eligible employees,
as the term "eligible employee" is defined in Section 218(d)(3) of the Social
Security Act, at a referendum held pursuant to the authority of this Ordinance,
do not vote in favor of making applicable the coverage authorized herein, then
the effect of this Ordinance shall immediately cease and determine, and the
moneys withheld, if any, pursuant to Section 3 hereof, shall be refunded.
SECTION 9: This Ordinance shall take effect upon its approval
as required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 9th day of June, A.D. 1958.
Attest:
City Clerk
~ City Commission of the
City of Sanford, Florida
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CERTIFICATE
I, H. N. Sayer, City Clerk of the City of Sanford,
Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the fore-
going Ordinance No. 6~7, PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Commission
of the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 9th. day of June, 1958,
was POSTED at the front door of the City Hall in the City of
Sanford, Florida, on the 10th. day of June, 1958.