§3468. Salary deductions paid into the fund; contributions by the city

The said Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund shall consist of the following:

(1) All monies, funds, properties, real and personal, and assets now belonging to or due the presently existing Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana to the credit of members of the West Monroe Fire Department, and to include the funds contributed by the State of Louisiana.

(2) All and entire the annual proceeds of all license taxes imposed and collected by the City of West Monroe, from fire insurance companies and/or fire insurance agents doing business in the said City of West Monroe, for carrying on such business, as provided by Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1581, et seq. Said revenue shall be paid into said Fund by the collecting officer at the close of each fiscal year.

(3) The proceeds of the sale of unserviceable, movable property owned and used by the said Fire Department shall be paid into said Pension and Relief Fund, if sold for salvage.

(4) All rewards, gifts or emoluments that may be paid or given for or on account of extraordinary service of said Fire Department, except when given to an individual member or given to endow a medal or other permanent award, shall be paid into said Pension and Relief Fund.

(5) Six percent of the salary of all employees of the said Fire Department who are eligible for participation in the benefits of this Fund shall be deducted from their respective salaries monthly and paid into the said Fund.

(6) A sum equal to six percent of the salary of all employees of the said Fire Department who are eligible for participation in the benefits of this Fund, said sum to be paid into the Fund by the City of West Monroe, the said City of West Monroe hereby being authorized and directed to appropriate and to pay over into said Fund monthly a sum in the identical amount as that total sum paid over into the Fund monthly from the pay roll deductions of all employees of the Fire Department who are eligible for participation in the benefits of this Fund as is described in Paragraph (5).

(7) The said City of West Monroe is by these presents authorized and directed to appropriate and pay-over out of the annual revenues of the general alimony tax of the said City of West Monroe into the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund of the City of West Monroe, annually at the beginning of the fiscal year, an amount or sum equivalent to the amount or sum of such deficit as may result, occur or appear in the operation of said Fund for the preceding year at the close of such fiscal year, considering the receipts and revenues accruing for such year to the said Fund under Paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) of this Section as well as all other income, including earnings, dividends and interest on investments, as against the disbursements for such year made under the provisions of this Part.

Designated from Acts 1966, No. 56, §8 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.