Sec. 2-200. Definitions.
For the purposes of this article, the following words and
phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section:
Continuous service. Service during which time an employee
was not absent from the payroll of the city for longer than
ninety days at any one time, except with the consent of the
city council. Should an absence for a longer period than ninety
days be caused by accident, illness or other event beyond
the control of the employee, the city council may authorize
such absence to be considered as continuous service.
Absence on account of service in the armed forces of the
United States in time of war or under any military training
law of the United States or any state, territory or district
thereof shall not be regarded as interrupting continuous service,
provided the employee returns to the service of the city
within ninety days after termination of his military service.
Should an employee leave the service of the city and later
be reemployed, the basis for computing time for retirement
pay purposes shall be from the time of reemployment.
Full-time employees of the city. Those employees who are
employed by the city on a full-time year-round basis, whether
paid by the hour, week, month or otherwise. Such term does
not include any person, judicial, professional or otherwise,
employed either on a part-time basis or on a seasonal basis;
nor does it include any official elected by the people or any
person employed in the office of such people; except, that it
does include the commissioner of revenue, the city treasurer,
the city sergeant, the clerk of the corporation court and their
full-time employees; and, it does include the judge of the municipal
court, the judge of the juvenile domestic relations
court and the commonwealth attorney, but not their employees.
Employees of the public school system of the city
and the employees of the joint health department are not
included since these departments participate in the state retirement
system. State officials and persons employed in the
office of such officials, regardless of whether or not the city
contributes to the salaries of such persons, are not included.
Regular annual salary. The annual amount of money paid
by the city to an employee. The regular annual salary of the
city commissioner of revenue, city treasurer, city sergeant,
the clerk of the corporation court and their full-time employees
shall be the amount set by the state compensation
board. The regular annual salary of an employee paid on an
hourly basis shall be computed at his regular hourly rate
times the regular number of working hours per week times
fifty-two. (11-2-59; 4-3-61.)
