HomeMy WebLinkAbout022 - 10/22/1917 - RELATING TO FIREMEN'S PENSIONS, AND ACCEPTING AND ADOPRTING THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 75 SESSION LAW 4F1
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RELATING TO FIREMEN'S PENSIONS, AND ACCEPTING AND ADOPTING THE
PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 75 SESSION LAWS OF 1917, PASSED BY
THE 21ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF COLORADO AND
APPROVED APRIL 20, 1917, AND PROVIDIJG FOR THE CREATION AND
ORGANIZATION OF A BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNDER SAID ACT FOR THE
CITY OF FORT COLLINS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1 That complete acceptance, ratification and
adoption is hereby made by the City of Fort Collins of a certain
Act of the Twenty-first General Assembly of the State of Colorado
and described as Chapter 75 of the Session Laws of 1917, entitled
"AN ACT to Create and Establish Firemen's Pension
Funds for Members of Regularly Organized Volunteer
Fire Departments, Regularly Organized Paid Fire Depart-
ments, and Regularly Organized Fire Department Aid
Associations, their Wifes, Dependent Mothers and
Dependent Children, and to Create Boards of Trustees
of each of said Funds in the Municipalities in the
State of Colorado, and to Provide for the Collection
and Distribution of the Same and for the Maintenance,
Management and Conduct of said Fund "
Section 2 That pursuant to the provisions of said Act
a Board of Trustees is hereby created, to be known as the
Board of Trustees of the Firemen' s Pension Fund, and to consist
of the following officers The Commissioner of Safety and
Ex-Officio Mayor, the Commissioner of Finance and Ex-Officio
City Treasurer, and the City Clerk, together with one member
of the duly organized fire department of the City of Fort Collins,
who shall be elected by the members of said fire department and
his election duly certified to the City Clerk
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Section 3 It is further certified and declared that
the City of Fort Collins is a municipal corporation of the
second class, organized under a special charter under the
Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Colorado, and that
said city has a duly organized paid fire department, and has
in serviceable condition for fire duty fire apparatus and
equipment belonging to said city of the value of more than
Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000 )
Section 4 Immediately upon the taking effect of this
ordinance it shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees of said
Firemen's Pension Fund to meet and organize by electing from
their number a president and treasurer, and the Commissioner
of Finance and Ex-Officio City Treasurer shall be Ex-Officio
Treasurer of said Board and custodian of the funds provided
for in said Act of the General Assembly
Section 5 That under the provisions of said Act of the
General Assembly, the said Board of Trustees is charged with
the duty of manqgng and administering the fund which may come
under their control for the payment of pensions to firemen
and their dependents
Section 6 It shall be the duty of the board immediately
after organization to adopt all necessary rules and regulations
for managing and discharging its duties, not inconsistent with
the provisions of said Act, and said board shall hear and decide
all applications for relief or pensions, and its action on such
applications shall be final and oonclusive,except that when in
its opinion justice demands that said action be reconsidered
the same may be reversed by said board, and a record of said
action and all other matters coming properly before said board
shall be kept and preserved
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Section 7 After the organization of said Board of
Trustees and the adoption of by-laxs and regulations as herein
provided, it shall be the duty of said board to certify to
the City Council of the City of Fort Collins the names of
the officers of the board as organized, and a copy of the
rules and regulations adopted for managing and discharging
its duties
Introduced, read and ordered published this �-WA4-� day of
A D 1917
Passed and adopted this Z day of 60cl
2s 1917
Commissioner of Safety and
Ex-Officio Mayor
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City Clerk
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STATE OF COLORADO )
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COUNTY OF LARIMER )
I Ray Baxter, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins,
do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing ordinance, con-
sisting of seven (7) sections, was duly introduced and read at
length at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the :7�6
day of September, A D 1917, and was duly passed and adopted
by an Aye and Nay vote of all the members of the City Council
at said regular meeting, and oddered published in the Fort
Collins Courier, a daily newspaper of the City of Fort Collins,
in adcordance with the providions of Section 7, of Article IV
of the City Charter, and that thereafter and on the ZL,:�Lday of
A D 1917, sadd Ordinance No as
passed and adopted was duly published in the Fort Collins
Courier, a daily newspaper published in said City of Fort
Collins, Colorado
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto sey my hand this
day of �r� n� A D 1917
City Clerk