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ORDINANCE # 22: Twp. Group Insurance
WATERTOWN CHARTER TOWNSHIP
CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN
ORDINANCE NO. 22
TOWNSHIP GROUP INSURANCE COVERAGE
WATERTOWN CHARTER TOWNSHIP, CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN HEREBY ORDAINS:
An ordinance to create and establish a township group insurance plan covering health, hospitalization, medical and surgical service and expense for certain classes of township officers and employees and to authorize the township supervisor and the township clerk to contract, in the name of the township, for such plan; to define those classes of officers and employees who shall be covered by such group insurance plan; to set forth the respective per centum shares which Watertown Charter Township and the officers and employees shall contribute to the premium or charges arising under such group insurance plan and further provide for the deduction of contributions from officers’ and employees’ compensation; to provide a method for non-coverage of an officer or employee of the group insurance plan; to ratify and confirm the validity of any group insurance plan in existence on the effective date of this ordinance; and to repeal all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith.
SECTION 1.
This ordinance shall be known and cited as the “Watertown Charter Township Group Insurance Plan Ordinance #22.”
SECTION 2.
Pursuant to Public Act 77 of 1989, the Charter Township of Watertown hereby creates and establishes a group insurance plan covering health, hospitalization, medical, and surgical service and expense of its officers and employees enumerated herein, and for such purposes also hereby authorizes the township supervisor and the township clerk to contract, in the name of the township board, subject to approval of the township board, with any company authorized to transact business within the State of Michigan for such group insurance policies.
SECTION 3.
The group insurance plan created, established and contracted for under this ordinance shall cover each person within the following classes of officers and employees and is also available to cover the dependents of such person at the person’s own expense:
SECTION 4.
The Charter Township of Watertown shall annually contribute 100% per centum of that portion of the premium or charges under such health, hospitalization, medical and surgical service and expense insurance contract for each person within the class of persons enumerated in Section 3 hereof. Such Township contribution shall be secured from the general fund of the township. Each person within such class shall be responsible for the remainder of the premium or charges not paid for by the township for dependent coverage, if such coverage is desired, and the township clerk is hereby authorized to deduct the same from each person’s pay, salary or compensation and to apply the amount to such person’s responsibility. Persons electing not to be covered shall give written notice to the township clerk that they do not wish to be insured or covered, and if the notice is received before they have become insured or covered under the contract, they shall not be covered thereunder. If the notice is received after an individual has become insured or covered, coverage under the contract shall cease as provided for in the contract.
SECTION 5.
Persons electing not to be covered by the township policy because they have coverage through a family member may thereafter elect to become covered if that alternative coverage is no longer available or desirable. In such a case, the commencement date for township sponsored coverage shall be in accordance with the contract for insurance.
SECTION 6.
The Charter Township of Watertown hereby ratifies and confirms the validity of any health, hospitalization, medical and surgical service and expense insurance or any one or more of such forms of insurance in existence on the effective date of this ordinance.
SECTION 7.
This ordinance shall take effect on the date of its publication. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
A roll call vote on the foregoing Ordinance #22 was as follows:
AYES: Mallison, Gorman, Shaver, Rathbun, Miller, Zalewski, Weitzel
NAYES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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Thomas L. Shaver, Supervisor Phyllis J. Rathbun, Clerk
First Reading: August 30, 1993
First Publication: DeWitt/Bath Review – September 6, 1993
Grand Ledge Independent – September 7, 1993
Second Reading and Adoption: September 13, 1993
Second Publication: DeWitt/Bath Review – September 20, 1993
Grand Ledge Independent – September 21, 1993
CERTIFICATION
I, Phyllis J. Rathbun, Clerk of the Charter Township of Watertown, Clinton County, Michigan, hereby certify that the above Ordinance #22 is a true copy of the action taken by the Board of Trustees on the 13th day of September, 1993.
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Phyllis J. Rathbun, Clerk