13-1499. Same; persons eligible for retirement; application; ordinance; amount.
13-1499
13-1499. Same; persons eligible for retirement; application;
ordinance; amount.
Any elective or appointive officer or employee having served an
aggregate of twenty (20) years or more as an elective or appointive officer
or employee, other than members of the police department, fire department,
water and light department, and all day laborers not paid on a monthly
basis and any officer or employee who elects not to come under the
provisions of the act of such city, and who has reached the age of
retirement as designated by the social security act, as amended, may make
application to the governing body to be retired, and upon such application
being made to the governing body, such governing body shall immediately
accept and approve such application for retirement and immediately pass an
ordinance to pay semimonthly to such elective or appointive officer or
employee, so retired, a sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of the average
salary or wages which such elective or appointive officer or employee was
receiving during the last two (2) years of service to such city, except as
provided in K.S.A. 13-1499a.
History: L. 1939, ch. 121, § 3; L. 1953, ch. 93, § 3; L. 1955, ch. 103, § 4;
June 30.