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<br />• <br />ORDINANCE N0.1 <br />AN ORDINANCE AWARDING AND ALLOWING PRIOR SERVICE CREDIT IN THE <br />TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY <br />OF LA PORTS WHO WERE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF LOMAX ON THE DATE <br />OF ITS CONSOLIDATION WITH THE CITY OF LA PORTS FOR THE NUMBER OF <br />MONTHS OF SERVICE SUCH EMPLOYEES HAD WITH THE CITY OF LOMAX <br />PRIOR TO SUCH CONSOLIDATION. <br />WHEREAS, on April 28, 1980, the City of Lomax, Texas, was consolidated <br />with the City of La Porte, Texas, and all persons who were employees of the City of <br />Lomax on that date were offered employment by the City of La Porte, and certain <br />of ,such employees accepted employment with the City of La Porte upon <br />consolidation; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of La Porte is a municipality participating in the <br />• Texas Municipal Retirement System under and by virtue of Article 6243h, Vernon's <br />Texas Civil Statutes, as amended, and has elected to have all of its employees and <br />departments participate in said System, and the former employees of the City of <br />Lomax who have become employees of the City of La Porte have therefore become <br />members of said System; and <br />WHEREAS, Section VI 1(b) of Article 6243h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, <br />as amended, provides that the governing body of a participating municipality may by <br />ordinance direct that each of its employees who was serving as an employee of a <br />public entity to which the municipality has become the successor, shall be awarded <br />and allowed prior service credit for the total number of months prior to date of <br />participation during which such employee was employed by such predecessor <br />governmental unit; and <br />• WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of La Porte, Texas, finds that it <br />will be in the public interest to award and allow such prior service credit to those <br />employees who were employees of the City of Lomax on the date of consolidation; <br />now, therefore, <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTS: <br />• <br />Section 1. The City of La Porte, Texas, by its City Commission, hereby <br />elects to award and allow prior service credit (as that term is defined in <br />Article 6243h, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, as amended) to each of its employees <br />who was serving as an employee of the City of Lomax, Texas, on April 28, 1980 (the <br />C2 <br />