§ 5-1-101. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH SYSTEM; ELIGIBILITY; EXCEPTIONS.
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The county is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a general
system of pensions and retirements for the benefit and advantage of its officers,
agents, servants, and employees, with necessary classifications and terms of admission;
to provide that, upon the establishment of any such system of pensions and retirements,
its officers, agents, servants, and employees theretofore or thereafter appointed,
by whatever authority, except those appointed directly by the Governor of the state,
whose salary or compensation is paid by the county shall be eligible to admission
to such pension or retirement system, subject to such exceptions, exclusions, limitations,
and restrictions as may be deemed expedient in connection with the admission to or
the continuance in such pension and retirement system of any of such officers, agents,
servants, and employees. Members of the regular Fire and Police Department shall be
eligible to administer to such pension or retirement system in lieu of their admission
to the special retirement systems provided for them in Section 4 of Bill 32-03.
