19-1509 Amending Chapter 62 Article 1 - Police Officers' & Firefighters' Pension Plan

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Firefighter means an actively employed full-time [person] employed by the County, including his initial probationary employment period, who is certified as a Firefighter as a condition of employment in accordance with the provisions of F.S. § 6335 633.408, and whose duty it is to extinguish fires, to protect life and to protect property. The term includes all certified, supervisory, and command personnel whose duties include, in whole or in part, the supervision, training, guidance, and management responsibilities of full-time firefighters, part-time firefighters, or auxiliary firefighters but does not include part-time firefighters or auxiliary firefighters. Effective October 1, 2015, all Firefighter Members of the System shall be employed by Seminole County as a result of the merger of the City Fire Department with the County. SECTION II: That Chapter 62, Pensions and Retirement, Article XVIII, Police Officers' and Firefighters' Pension Plan, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Casselberry, is hereby amended by amending Section 62-2008, Disability, by amending subsection (a), Disability Benefits in-line of Duty, subsection (c), Disability Benefits Not -in -Line of Duty, subsection (g), Workers' Compensation, and by adding subsection (h), Eligibility for Disability Benefits, to read as follows: (a) Disability benefits in-line of duty. Any Member who shall become totally and permanently disabled to the extent that he is unable, by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, to render useful and efficient service as a Police Officer or Firefighter, which disability was directly caused by the performance of his duty as a Police Officer or Firefighter, shall, upon establishing the same to the satisfaction of the Board, be entitled to a monthly pension equal to three percent of his Average Final Compensation multiplied by the total years of Credited Service, but in any event the minimum amount paid to the Member shall be 65 percent of the Average Final Compensation of the Member. Eliibility requirements for disability benefits are set forth in subsection (h), below. Terminated persons, either -vested ot iton-vested, ate not eligible for disability beriefits. Not withstanding the previous sentence; ORR' �. :. mover, 04tvis BONN 0 W-.= Big NJ BANKIT-.1 I Roil M&'UN"M" .:CM . NDQW211.1"1111.2k.111 NONNI [",=IN MANOR [NINE .: • :W.A.:.:. 129MIDA1.1611r. Ordinance 19-1509 Page 2 of 9 Rol IVII&IJI&INS! - r. on 11111.2LOIN &U IRA I Ordinance 19-1509 Page 2 of 9