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CLERWONT CITY OF CLERMONT
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-043
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT; LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY OF
CLERMONT POLICE OFFICERS'RETIREMENT PLAN AT CHAPTER 28,
ARTICLE III; AMENDING SECTION 28-63, DISABILITY; PROVIDING
FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, THE
ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENERS ERROR,
PUBLICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Clermont Police Officers are provided pension and certain other
benefits under Clermont City Code; Chapter 28,Article I1I;
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend the provisions of the Police Officers'
Retirement Plan;and
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Clermont,
Lake County, Florida that(note: strikethrough indicates removed words and underlined indicates
added text):
SECTION 1:
That Chapter 28, Pensions and Retirement, Article III, Police Officers'
Retirement Plan,Section 28-63,Disability,subsection(c),Benefits not-in-line of duty,of the Code
of Ordinances of the City of Clermont, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(c) Benefits not-in-line of duty.Any member with ten years or more credited service who shall
become totally and permanently disabled to the extent that the member is unable,by reason
of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment,to render useful and efficient
service as a police officer,which disability is not directly caused by the performance of the
member's duties as a police officer shall,upon establishing the same to the satisfaction of the
board, be entitled to a monthly pension equal to the greater of:
(1) The member's accumulated contributions at five percent interest; or
(2) 2'/4 percent of average final compensation times years of credited service earned prior
to October 1,2002,plus three percent of average final compensation times years of
credited service earned on and after October 1, 2002;.or
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25 percent of the member's average final compensation.
A member determined to be totally and permanently disabled from a non-service-connected injury
or disease and who has not completed ten years of service shall receive a return of accumulated
contributions with five percent interest. Eligibility requirements for disability benefits are set forth
in subsection(g)of this section.
SECTION 2: CODIFICATION
Specific authority is hereby granted to codify and incorporate this Ordinance in the existing Code
of Ordinances of the City of Clermont.
SECTION 3: CONFLICT
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4: SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, sentence,clause,phrase of this ordinance,or the particular application
thereof shall be held invalid by any court, administrative agency, or other body with appropriate
jurisdiction,the remaining section,subsection,sentences,clauses,orphrases under application shall
not be affected thereby.
SECTION 5: ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENERS ERROR
Regardless of whether such inclusion in the Code as described in Section 1 is accomplished,sections
of the Ordinance may be re-numbered or re-lettered and the correction of typographical and/or
scrivener's errors which do not affect the intent may be authorized by the City Manager or designee,
without need of public hearing,by filing a corrected or re-codified copy of same with the City Clerk.
SECTION 6: PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance shall be published as provided by law and it shall become law and shall take effect
immediately upon its Second Reading and Final Passage.
CITY OF CLERMONT
�LER ONT ORDINANCE NO.2025-043
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Clermont,Lake County,
Florida on this 18t'day of November 2025.
CITY OF CLERMONT
Tim Murry,Mayor
Tracy Ackroyd Howe,MMC
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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Mristiar". Waugh, ty Attorney