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AN ORDINANCE UNDER THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT, LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING SUBSECTION (d)
AND SUBSECTION (e) OF SECTION 16-5 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES;
AMENDING AND REDUCING THE LENGTH OF SERVICE REQUIRED OF A
CITY EMPLOYEE FOR THE VESTING OF PENSION AND RETIREMENT
BENEFITS FROM TWENTY (20) YEARS TO TEN (10) YEARS; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING
FOR PUBLICATION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT HEREBY ORDAINS THAT:
SECTION 1. Subsection (d) of Section 16-5 of the Code of Ordinances of the City
of Clermont, Lake County, Florida, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(d) Retirement prior to normal retirement date: A general
employee who has ten years of credited service and has
attained his sixtieth birthday may make written application
to the City Clerk for early retirement. On recommendation
of the City Clerk and approval by the council, the employee
may retire on the first day of·any month following, or
coinciding with, his sixtieth birthday. In such an event
he shall be entitled to and shall be paid an annuity equal
in amount to the annuity computed on the basis of normal
retirement, except that the amount so computed shall be
reduced by five-twelfths of one per cent of said amount for
each month that early retirement precedes his sixty-fifth
birthday.
A fireman or policeman who has ten years of credited service
and has attained his fifty-fifth birthday may make written
application to the City Clerk for early retirement. On recom-
mendation of the City Clerk and approval by the council, the
fireman or policeman may retire on the first day of any
month following, or coinciding with, his fifty-fifth birthday.
In such an event he shall be entitled to and shall be paid an
annuity equal in amount to the annuity computed on the basis
of normal retirement, except that the amount so computed shall
be reduced by five-twelfths of one per cent of said amount·~
for each month that early retirement precedes his sixtieth
birthday.
SECTION 2. Subsection (e) of Section 16-5 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Clermont, Lake County, Florida, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(e) Termination of service prior to normal retirement:
(1) Less than ten years of credited service.
If a member of the plan dies or ceases to be a permanent employee
prior to his normal retirement date and has less than 10 years
of credited service, all rights of the employee in the pension
plan will terminate.
(2) Ten years or more of credited service. If any member of
the plan terminates employment with the city prior to his normal
retirement date and has completed ten years or more of credited
service, the pension credit earned at termination will be fully
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credited to the employee. He may, when he reaches his
normal retirement date, make written application to the
City Clerk for the pension earned, and in such an event, he
shall be entitled to, and he shall be paid, an annuity
computed on the same basis as that of other employees who
retire on their normal retirement date~
SECTION 3. All Ordinances(or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4. Should any section or part of section of this Ordinance be declared
invalid by any court or competent jurisdiction, such adjudications shall not
apply or affect any other provision of this Ordinance, except to the extent
that the entire section or part of the section may be inseparable in meaning and
effect from the section to which such holding shall apply.
SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be published as provided by law and it shall
become law and shall take effect on the 1st day of October, A. D. 1974.
First Reading this 9th day of July, A. D. 1974
Second Reading this 23rd day of July, A. D. 1974
PASSED AND ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TAE CITY OF CLERMONT,
LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA this 23rd day of July, A. D. 1974
CITY OF CLER NT
BY:-&'
CLAUDE E.
Mayor
ATTEST:
lCr,aM")?J. t:wJl
City Clerk
APPROVED by me this 23rd day of July, A. D. 1974
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CLAUDE . SMOAK,
CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a certified copy of the foregoing Ordinance No. 108-C
was publ ished on the +--!v day of ~d¡ , A. D. 1974, in a newspaper
of general circulation located within the City of Clermont, as required by Florida
Statute 166.041 (3)(a), said date of publication being 14 days prior to the second
reading and final adoption of this Ordinance.
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