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File #: 2015-1347    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 2/27/2015 In control: Committee on Finance and Law
On agenda: 3/3/2015 Final action: 3/17/2015
Enactment date: 3/17/2015 Enactment #: 8
Effective date: 3/18/2015    
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One, Administrative, Article XI, Personnel, Chapter 192, Pensions, Section 192.33, "Classification and Monthly Payments; Cost-of-Living Allowance", Paragraph (a), relating to Firemen's Benefit Plan No. 2, to bring such section into compliance with Arbitration Decision dated April 18, 1990, and the "Firemen's Relief and Pension Fund Law" (Act of May 25, 1933, P.L. 1050, as amended, 53 P.S. ? 23601, et. seq.).
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 01 - ADMINISTRATIVE
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Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One, Administrative, Article XI, Personnel, Chapter 192, Pensions, Section 192.33, "Classification and Monthly Payments; Cost-of-Living Allowance", Paragraph (a), relating to Firemen's Benefit Plan No. 2, to bring such section into compliance with Arbitration Decision dated April 18, 1990, and the "Firemen's Relief and Pension Fund Law" (Act of May 25, 1933, P.L. 1050, as amended, 53 P.S. ? 23601, et. seq.).

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WHEREAS, the City desires to amend said Section 192.33, paragraph (a) in order to remedy such inconsistencies;

NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section One:

The Pittsburgh Code, Title One, Administrative, Article XI, Personnel, Chapter 192, "Pension" Section 192.33, "Classification and Monthly Payments; Cost-of-Living Allowance", Paragraph (a), relating to Firemen's Benefit Plan No. 2 is hereby amended to read as follows:

? 192.33 Classification and Monthly Payments; Cost of Living Allowance

(a) Beneficiaries under Firemen's Benefit Plan No. 2 who retire on or after January 1, 1988, shall be entitled to receive, per month, a benefit consistent with the provisions of the Firemen's Relief and Pension Fund Act, specifically, 53 P. S. Sec. 23613, being an amount equaling fifty (50) percent of the average wages earned by the contributor as an employee of the Bureau of Fire of the City during any three (3) calendar years of service or the last thirty-six (36) consecutive months preceding retirement [an amount equaling fifty (50) percent of the average monthly earnings received by the contributor as an employee of the Bureau of Fire of the City during the last forty-eight (48) consecutive months preceding retirement]. If any employee has not been employed in the Bureau of Fire for at least three (3) years, [forty-eight months] but is otherwise entitled to a pension, the employee's pension shall equal not less than fifty (50) percent of ...

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