RS 11:3176

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RS 11:3176

§3176. Salary deductions paid into the fund; contributions by the city

It shall be the duty of the Commission Council beginning with the first Tuesday in December, 1944 and annually thereafter to budget out of the City's General Fund and pay to said Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum until such time as said fund shall have from all sources accumulated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be retained as a permanent fund; annually thereafter it shall be the duty of the said Commission Council to budget and pay over into said fund the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; it shall be the further duty of the said Commission Council to pay into the said fund, in addition to the other payments herein provided, the equivalent of one-half of all funds that may be received by the City of Bogalusa as its share for the Foreign Fire Insurance Agents Fund, collected under Act 18 of 1924 and the amendments thereof, and to deduct from the pay of each member of the Fire Department after the first Tuesday of September, 1952, the sum of three percent of the monthly wage and to pay same into the said Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund.

Provided that in any event should it occur that the revenues as hereinabove provided in this section be insufficient to maintain the fifteen thousand dollar reserve or permanent fund, or should a deficit result, occur or appear in the operation of said Fund in any one year, it shall be the duty of the Commission Council of the City of Bogalusa and the said City of Bogalusa is by these presents, authorized and directed to appropriate and pay over out of the annual revenues of the general alimony tax of the said City of Bogalusa, into the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund of the City of Bogalusa, at the beginning of the next fiscal year, an amount or the equivalent to the amount or sum of such operating deficit plus an amount or sum sufficient to maintain the fifteen thousand dollar reserve or permanent fund.

Designated from Acts 1944, No. 193, §3 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.