§ 18-18. Eligibility.

(a)

All full-time, salaried, or hourly paid general employees shall be eligible for membership in the general employees retirement system upon date of employment. The following shall not be eligible:

(1)

City attorneys, city prosecutors, consulting engineers.

(2)

Part-time contractual employees (independent contractors).

(3)

Medical directors.

(4)

The mayor and members of the city council.

(b)

Effective September 1, 1973, all present employees as a condition of continued employment by the city shall become members of the system whether or not they have completed one (1) year of continuous employment.

(c)

All future new employees shall become members of the system, as a condition of employment, on date of hire by the city.

(d)

Effective July 1, 1994, all former members, actively serving in office, former members no longer serving in office and retirees under the Elected Public Officials Retirement System (repealed effective June 30, 1994), shall be members, former members no longer serving in office, and retirees of the General Employees Retirement System, and shall be entitled to benefits thereunder as follows:

(1)

All former members of the Elected Public Officials Retirement System who have served but are no longer serving in office, or who have retired as elected public officials as of the date hereof shall receive the same pension benefits that they would have been entitled to receive pursuant to former Code of Ordinances section 18-28.1(a) as it existed immediately prior to its repeal.

(2)

All elected public officials serving in office on December 1, 1993, shall be one hundred (100) percent vested in the retirement benefits accrued to them respectively, and shall be entitled to receive payment of said benefits, pursuant to former Code of Ordinances section 18-28.1(a) as of July 1, 1994. The vested accrued benefit of any of the above-described elected public officials at any given time after July 1, 1994, shall be, the total accrued benefit at such time as described in the preceding portions of this subsection (2) determined solely in accordance with former Code of Ordinances section 18-28.1(a).

(Code 1964, § 9A-3(1), (2); Ord. No. 1416, § 3, 8-27-86; Ord. No. 1577, § 1, 9-28-88; Ord. No. 1984, § 2, 6-8-94; Ord. No. 2027, § 3, 5-24-95)