This section tells how the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund is funded and requires the city of Houma, and sometimes the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government, to make specific payments.
§3227. Salary deductions paid into the fund; contributions by the city The Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund shall consist of the following: (1) All rewards, gifts or emoluments that may be paid or given for or on account of extraordinary service of said fire department, except when given to an individual member or given to endow a medal or other permanent award, shall be paid into the pension and relief fund. (2) A sum equal to the amount which the city of Houma receives from the state treasurer as a tax on foreign fire insurers as presently provided for in R.S. 22:343-349, as same may be revised or otherwise provided for by the laws of Louisiana; said monies to be paid over by the city of Houma to the fund within thirty days after receipt thereof. The city of Houma shall take all action necessary to implement receipt of such funds. (3) Eight percent of the gross salary of all employees of said fire department who are eligible for participation in the benefits of this fund shall be deducted from their respective salaries monthly and paid into said fund. (4) The city of Houma or the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government, or both, are authorized and directed to appropriate and pay out of their annual revenues to the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund a sum equal to nine percent of the gross salary of all employees of said fire department who are eligible for participation in the benefits of this fund, said payment to be paid into said fund monthly. (5) The city of Houma shall pay out of the annual revenues of the general alimony tax of the city of Houma into the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund of the City of Houma annually, at the beginning of the fiscal year, an amount equivalent to the amount of such deficit as may result, occur or appear in the operation of said fund for the preceding year at the close of such fiscal year, considering the receipts and revenues accruing for such year to the said fund under Paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section as against disbursements for such year made under the provisions of this Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund. Designated from Acts 1990, No. 443, §1, by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2008, No. 415, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.