SEC. 2-019. PENSION, RELIEF AND RETIREMENT SYSTEMS:
SEC. 2-019.1. LEGISLATIVE AND CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY:
The City of Stockton has adopted a number of ordinances providing for the payment
of pension, relief, disability and retirement benefits for its employees,
but has discarded them one by one until on July 21, 1944, the City Council
authorized a contract between the City of Stockton and the California State
Employees' Retirement System, under which system all pension, relief, disability
and retirement benefits would be paid.
Ordinance No. 283, adopted February 21, 1901, was the first ordinance adopted
creating a police relief and pension fund. It remained in effect until repealed
and superseded by Ordinance No. 698.
Ordinance No. 698, adopted June 13, 1919, created a relief, health, life insurance
and pension fund for members of its Police and Fire Departments, and remained
in effect until repealed by Ordinance No. 853, adopted September 24, 1923.
Ordinance No. 854, adopted October 8, 1923, created a relief, health, life
insurance and pension fund for members of its Police and Fire Departments.
It was amended a number of times and remained in effect until it was repealed
and superseded by Ordinance No. 1084.
Ordinance No. 1084, adopted February 27, 1928, provided for a Pension Board;
a health and relief fund for retired members of its Police and Fire Departments,
or their dependents, and for administration of the pension and relief fund.
It was amended a number of times and remained in effect until repealed and
superseded by Ordinance No. 1278.
Ordinance No. 1278, adopted June 13, 1932, provided for a Pension Board; for
pension and relief benefits for disabled or retired members of its Police and
Fire Departments, and for beneficiaries of deceased members thereof. It further
provided for a pension and relief fund and for its administration. It was amended
no less than twenty times and remained in effect until repealed by Ordinance
No. 2080.
Ordinance No. 2080, adopted July 12, 1948, provided that all future pension
and retirement benefits for employees of the City of Stockton, would be paid
through the California State Employees' Retirement System (The City of Stockton
having entered into a contract with such System, pursuant to the provisions
of Ordinance No. 1785, July 21, 1944).
Initiative Ordinance No. 2715, adopted October 17, 1953, provided for an additional
allowance or increase in the sum of fifty dollars ($50) per month (effective
January 1, 1954) to be paid to members of its Police and Fire Departments,
retired under provisions of Ordinance No. 1278, and that such additional allowance
or increase be paid through the means and facilities of the California State
Employees' Retirement System.
Ordinance No. 2723, adopted April 19, 1954, provided for an additional allowance
or increase in the sum of fifty dollars ($50) per month (effective June 1,
1954) to be paid to members of its Police and Fire Departments, retired under
provisions of Ordinances No's. 854 and 1084, that such additional allowance
or increase be paid by the City of Stockton, and not through the means and
facilities of the California State Employees' Retirement System, and further,
that such additional allowance or increase would not apply to widows of deceased
Policemen or Firemen.
Stockton,
CA 
