No. V-0085 (1947).

Case DateMarch 17, 1947
CourtTexas
Texas Attorney General Opinions 1947. No. V-0085 (1947). 1March 17, 1947Honorable H. Bayne SatterfieldFiremen's Pension CommissionerP. O. Box 1062Austin, TexasDear Mr. Satterfield:Opinion No. V-85Re: Should a fireman who is receiving a salary, and also benefiting under the "GI Bill" pay the required per centum to participate in the Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund, on basis of total amounts received on city salary aloneYou request the opinion of this department upon the following situation:
"We have a fireman who has been employed as a fireman by one of our Cities under the G. I. Training. The City pays him a salary of Ninety ($90.00) Dollars per month and the Government pays him Seventy ($70.00) Dollars Per month. The question is:
"Should he pay into the fund on the basis of Ninety ($90.00) Dollars per month salary or on the basis of his City salary plus the Government salary totaling One Hundred Sixty ($160.00) Dollars per month?
Section 10 of Article 6243e Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, the Act of the 45th Legislature, 1937, provides as follows2:
"Within sixty (60) days after this Act takes effect each fully paid fireman and each part paid fireman whose salary or compensation is Fifty Dollars ($50) or more per month and each part paid fireman whose salary or compensation is less than Fifty Dollars ($50) per month and each active volunteer fireman in the employ of any such city or town or enrolled in the fire department of any such city or town, who desires himself or his beneficiaries, as hereinafter named, to participate in such Fund or the benefits therefrom as by this Act provided, shall file with the Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Fireman's Relief and Retirement Fund Trustees of that city or town a statement in writing under oath that he desires to participate in the benefits from such Fund giving the name and relationship of his then actual dependents and shall therein body thereof to deduct not less than one percentus nor more than three (3) per centum, the exact amount thereof to be determined by the exact amount thereof to be determined by the vote of the fire department of which such person is a member, from his salary or compensation if a wholly paid or part paid fireman whose salary or compensation is more than Fifty Dollars ($50) per month, but if a part paid fireman whose salary is leas
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