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An Ordinance Providing for the Retirement of Municipal Judges; to Provide Funds
for the Payment of such Retirements; to provide for a Board of Trustees to
Administer such Funds; and for Other Purposes.
/Ordained
Be It by the City Council of the City of Little Rock:
Section 1. When any judge of the Municipal Court, who shall have
held office twenty years and attains the age of sixty
.five yearss,.resigns his office or is succeeded by another
judge duly elected according to law, he shall, during the
residue of his natural life, receive one -half of the
salary payable to such judge at the time of his retire -
ment, or at the time he is succeeded by another judge.
Provided, further, that after twenty -four years of
service any such judge shall be eligible for retirement
regardless of age. Such pensions shall be paid in
monthly installments.
Section 2. To provide funds for such retirement, cost in addition
to the costs now provided for by law will be assessed
as follows:
A fee of fifty-cents for entering on the records
of the court each criminal cgse. Provided, however,
in no event, save for the offences of negligent
homocide, driving drunk, reckless driving and speed-
ing, shall costs be assessed against persons with
traffic offences or violations growing out of the
use of vehicles; a fee of ten cents for issuing
each summon in civil cases.
In the event the fund provided for herein reaches
the total sum of $25,000 for each judge presiding
over such court, plus $25,000 for each retired judge,
the Board of Trustees, herein after provided for
shall order, at its next quarterly meeting, any amount
in excess of this sun: paid into the City Treasury for
the express purpose of being applied to the payment
of the judges' salaries.
Section 3. There is hereby created a Board. of Trustees, vhich shall
consist of the Mayor, City Clerk, City Treasurer, City
Health Officer, and the Municipal Judge or Judges of such
city. The Board shall have authority to receive and ad-
minister the funds collected under the provisions of this
ordinance and shall have the power to make the necessary
rules for the same. The Board shall have authority to
invest such funds as are not necessary for the immediate
J use for the ,p", nt of pensions in the interest bearing
securities of the City in Ai ich such court is dituated,
in the interest bearing securities of the County in which
such court is situated, in the interest bearing securities
of the State of Arkansas, the interest bearing securities
of the United States or any or all of such securities. The
City Treasurer shall be treasurer of the Board and at the
direction of the Board shall deposit the funds in some suit-
able depository and shall draw and sign all necessary checks
at the direction of the Board. He shall execute a bond in
sum fixed by the Board to guarantee his good faith in the
handling of any funds that may come into his hands under the
provisions of the act. The City Clerk shall be secretary of
the Board.
The Board shall constitute one of its members as chairman who
shall serve for two years. The Board shall meet at least
quarterly and special meetings may be called by the chairman
or majority of the members. The City Clerk and the City
Treasurer shall receive five dollars for every meeting they
attend, but shall not be paid more than $35.00 each in any
one year; all other members shall serve without pay.
The costs provided for herein shall be collected at the time
the fine is collected; if eaehshonds are forfeited such costs
shall be collected as part of such cash bonds. In Civil cases
such costs shall be collected when the summons are issued.
PASSED: June 22, 1953
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVE:
Mayor