2006-14 GE Pension Board AmendmentORDINANCE 2006-14
AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF NORTH PALM
BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING SECTION 2-151(a), RETIREMENT BOARD,
ESTABLISHMENT, OF DIVISION 3, PENSION AND CERTAIN OTHER BENEFITS FOR
GENERAL EMPLOYEES, OF ARTICLE V, PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT SYSTEMS, OF
CHAPTER 2, ADMINISTRATION, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE VILLAGE
TO PROVIDE THAT THE MAYOR SHALL BE A VOTING MEMBER OF THE
RETIREMENT BOARD; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR THE
REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH; AND, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF NORTH PALM BEACH, FLORIDA:
Section 1. Section 2-151(a), Retirement Board, Establishment, of Division 3, Pension and
Certain Other Benefits for General Employees, of Article V, Pensions and Retirement Systems,
of Chapter 2, Administration, of the Code of Ordinances of the Village is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"Section 2-151. Retirement board, establishment.
(a) There is hereby created a general employees retirement board of the village which
shall consist of five (5) members.
Two (2) members of the board shall be employees of the village. The employee members
shall be elected at large by full-time village employees who are not firemen or policemen.
Employees who are elected cannot work in the same departments of the village. The term of
service of employees on the general retirement board shall be indefinite or until the time such
employee member of the retirement board is retired, disabled, resigns, terminates village
employment or is removed for misconduct by majority vote of the employees or the council of
the village or for nonparticipation by missing two (2) or more consecutive meetings. The
election to the board shall be arranged by the village clerk, who shall give reasonable notice of
the election to the eligible voters. One (1) member of the general retirement board shall be a
resident of the village, selected by the village council, one (1) member shall be the village
manager and (1) member shall be the village mayor. All members of the board shall be voting
members. The mayor may designate in writing another member of the village council to serve in
his place, and vote from time to time."
Section 2. If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is for
any reason held by a Court to be unconstitutional, inoperative or void, such holding shall not
affect the remainder of this Ordinance.
Section 3. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 4. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage.
PLACED ON FIRST READING THIS 27TH DAY OF JULY, 2006.
PLACED ON SECOND, FINAL READING AND PASSED THIS 10TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2006.
(Village Seal)
AT~'ES~T:
Village Clerk
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