85-23-Ordinance-Amending the Overtime Personnel Policy-10/21/1985CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 85-23
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANGER, TEXAS, AMENDING CHAPTER III, SECTION A
ONLY, RELATING TO OVERTIME, OF THE PERSONNEL
POLICIES MANUAL; REPEALING CONFLICTING ORDINANCES;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND ESTABLISHING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER,
TEXAS:
ARTICLE I
THAT Chapter III: Employee Benefits, Section A: Overtime
only, of the Personnel Policies Manual, is hereby amended to
read as follows:
III. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
A. OVERTIME
It is the policy of the city to keep work in excess of
established schedules at a minimum and to permit such
work only when it is necessary to meet city operation
requirements.
Overtime work shall include only that work performed by
employees at the direction of a department head or his
authorized representative which exceeds more than the
normal work schedule in the established work period.
For employees working a seven (7) day work period, over-
time hours shall be only those hours worked over forty
(40) within said work period. For police officers
working the fourteen (14) day work period, overtime
hours shall be only those hours worked over eighty-six
(86) within said work period.
Overtime authorized by a director shall be compensated
at a rate of one and one-half (1 ) times the regular
rate of pay for all employees covered and not exempted
from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employees
exempted from the FLSA shall not receive overtime pay.
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Employees that are covered, but not exempted from the
FLSA, shall be allowed to participate in the time -off
plan, at their option. However, all rules of the time -
off plan must be strictly adhered to. Only overtime
that is reflected on the employee's time record will be
allowed.
ARTICLE II
THAT all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby
repealed.
ARTICLE III.
THAT it is hereby declared to be the intention of the city
ouncil cthat the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses
and phrases of this ordinance are severable and, if any
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordi-
nance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid
judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sec-
tions of this ordinance, since the same would have been
enacted by the city council without the incorporation in
this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or section.
ARTICLE IV
THAT this ordinance shall take effect immediately from and
after its passage and the publication of the caption, as the
Law in such cases provides.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the o2/ day of ✓U , 1985.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
Mayor
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