By-law # 2006-002 Omers Member By-law

BY-LAW

FOR PARTICIPATION IN OMERS

BY A COUNCIL

IN RESPECT OF EMPLOYEES
CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF GORDON & ALLAN WEST
By-law Number: 2006-002

A By-law to authorize participation in the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) in respect of the employees of The Corporation of the Township of Gordon & Allan West.

Whereas pursuant to subsection 15(1) of the OMERS Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter 0.29 and Regulation 890 as amended, a council may by By-law participate in OMERS on behalf of its employees and pay to the OMERS Fund the total of the employer and member contributions, and has all the powers necessary and incidental thereto.

Therefore the council of the Corporation of the Township of Gordon & Allan West enacts as follows:

(Election)
1. The Employer hereby elects to participate in OMERS in respect of its employees as of the first day of January, 2006 (the effective date) and authorizes the CAO/Clerk/Treasurer to submit forthwith a certified copy of this By-law to the President of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Board.

(Present
Employees) 2. Subject to subsection 8(6) of the Regulation issued under the OMERS Act, an employee who is entitled to become a member becomes a member on the first day of the month following the month in which the application is received by the President, provided that the President may, at the request of the Employer, fix an earlier date on which the employee becomes a member but not before the date on which the employee became entitled to be a member or the first day of January in the year in which the application is received by the President, whichever is the later date.

(Future
Full-time
Employees) 3. Every person who becomes an employee of the Employer on or after the effective date, if such person is employed on a continuous full-time basis, shall, as a condition of employment, become a member of OMERS, or if such person is already a member, resume contributions to OMERS on the date so employed.

(Contributions) 4. The CAO/Clerk/Treasurer of the Employer is hereby authorized to deduct from the contributory earnings of each employee who is a member of OMERS, the contributions required to be made by the member, and to remit such contributions together with the amounts required under the OMERS Act to be paid by the Employer to the OMERS Fund.

(Agent) 5. The CAO/Clerk/Treasurer (the Agent) is hereby authorized to execute all necessary documents and to do all such things as are necessary to carry out the intent of this By-law, in accordance with section 6 of the OMERS Regulation.

Enacted and Passed this 19th day of January, 2006

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Head of Council

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Clerk

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