Case Information
*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF T’EXAS AUSTIN
Xonorable H., 3. Satterfield
Firemen’8 Benefit Commlosibner .
Austin, ¶!exaa
We are pleased G
reading a8 rouoras:
ber OP a regularly organized fire ~departnent ior more than twenty years, but who ie not fifty-rlve years of age receive the beneiita grwided therein?
"3. Xay a person who has attained the age of rirty-rive but has not served aotlvely .
Hon. H.’ B. Sa’ttex+ield, Paae 2
a pklod’or twenty years in come regularly
organized rlrs departi!mnt rooelve benefita
thereunder?
“4. May s~p&c& who has earned a por- tion ot the twenty year period in a regularly
organl%ed .ilre department or oae : olty anb who
has then moved .to’another town and haa served
sturi0irnt pour thorcr make, ‘a tot41 ‘of tvifa- ~ tg year? resaloe the bensilts~proolded thereln? .-: .* .“5. &w many ‘&embers of a regularlporg~- / i
iced l!iJ% depart-H mU$t pualitp under aha prOVleions~oi aal,d bill in order for any Member to partloip,ete la the beneilt~ provided by s+id .,I laws” ,.i I :,
Seotlon 6, of Rouse’Blll No. ZiE!&ts of ths Forty-riith Lsglolature (Artlols M%ge,‘~V.A,C.S;), reads as ,, :,:‘,, ,, ., r0ii08at
‘“On tind attar the 1st’ day Ott April, i.iL 1 1939, any poreoh who haa been duly appolhted
end enrolled; and who has attained age OS
fifty-five (35) ye8rs and who haa~senad.+otivb-
ly for a of twonty (20) years In soaa
regularly organl%ed’fire department in any city
or towa $83 thl8 Stat&now within that may 0~ll6 within PPOVI~~~OIU~ 0r thit3 m, itt w
rank, whether as wholly paid, part paid! or volun- teer rlrenmn hall be entitled to be retired from’ euoh servlos or department and shall be to be paid from the.Flrements Relior and Retlre- ment Fund that alty oztown, a monthly pent3Zon equal to one-half of his everage oronthly salary not to exceed u mexlmum or’,One Runared Dollar8
,(@OO) ger month. Such average monthly salary
to be baaed on the monthly average oT hia aslary ror the rive ISI year period preceding the date or suoh retIrementI provided rusther, that.lf
his averaqa monthly salary is iT%‘iity Dollars ($50) or lees per month or ir volunteer firemen with no salary. shall be entitled ~to a monthly
pen&ii & retlZement ~allowanos twenty-rite
Dollars (3E3) .”
~ The oonditiom thus inposed, regardIn@ sli~$billty rsquin that a psreon b@ *duly ioc retireaent boner:ts, appointed and enrolled*; au& here attnlned the ego OS ior mln- rirtpriye yearsi he mast have 6OrYed aotlrsly or twenty years; and the'smrtlor mwt have been imm period In som rogululy orgunlxad firm department rlthla the pro- exist. i;roh ok these OOndftioPr~6iWbt Vii3iO5R Ol AOL
ft la our opinloa; la amnr to your rht question, that a person muat be a member or 6 tire doportmeat at the tipe be reaohea the age of tlfty-fin yearn be eligible to rearlvu the barits pro~iasd in s0otioa 6 nottithataaui4 the requirement of twenty yearta at aerolaa may bars ken Witness the uxagwga or seotion b mrilled tiwetorore. Wmll be ohtitled obviosmly ix~plylng to be rotlred*, iv8 oonatFue the twsnty yuarr or amtbernbip at euoh %ir.
servici3 oonditi~n an a mlnlmm ?OQU.iMHlAt, the abrtenao or which will render a person lnollglb1e upon hio attaining the age rifty-rivrr years utatl1 suoh tline ae th8 twoaty yearn CP Sc3FYiCO haB bWJA OCS&'latsd.
Your.second nnd third questions~ere anewerod In
the ne(jativu. - It 14 cleusly W&red that a Qersarr shall have both reaohed the~68;* ot rirty-rive years aad 'served ror a xnirilmm perlokor yemra~.&~~Zori.belu& oliglbla twentr ror the bmmrlta provided in tJm 1~': 1.: 1:' Xt %P~CI~UP o&ton raur rotrcth ~qu~~stlon rhould that terminology or also be tmmmred in ns%a’tlwt. xota the s8otion 6, rel~etlngoaly phaeia a&dad% to reClrbMlot bwritt3, xv1t.h era- mp perman who harr beon dtilg ap-
polntei &i enrolled, a&d who haB attalaea the aae . . . and I&O hos Sbrr6d aetiYslp lOP a twuntr (20) years in e . . . ilM departnsnt ,in any olty or tom . e . &all be to be retlrud Fcos g&& . . . dcpaFt- mnt and shall be entitlab to be paid Irem the P1rtYBent8 Raliot aad R43tImeent Fun6 &f& oity or town . . .*
tliewin~ the Aat aat a whole in the lnethod provided rcr establi&hfmt and rarpleniohment the fund of ea*
‘\ \,,\,, 23. Hon. H. 8. ktterrield, Pa@ 4 and obeorving the sbrenoe anr prmhlon
oity or tom, for the transfer of any fnads fresone oity or town to aaotkar tnoleant to the ohiwq mi%ubs?ship firs- xian rrom tbo bepartaent or one oity or torn that of another, we are ooaatninsd to hold that a8 to rqtlroment banerite the requldto tmfntp yew8 or sontoo mud ba in onu fire d*partmeat. Ip aaawer to pxcr rl@?, cpwtloa, la observed it
that there 1s PO re@fremont is 8. 8. 256 rep+rdln(g the number or aedmrs of e firs depa&taent r&lob auat qaalify brfors sny msbor may partioipeta in ttm bsneilto prorid@& therein. Weberr II rfm dspfmtment eltaot~ng not to qualify siBply do not gutfoipate und imi not liable rsqalred under paymat any ealery doduotfons otherwIse Cieotion 10 or the Aot. Other zmmbers oi rlre dspartsmnt are not ~p~nbalizoa therefor.