HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 365ORDINAN.~E NO. ~'~""NE~':r SERIES
AN OROINANCE TO PROTECT THE COMFO,~T, HEALTH,
SAFE..TY AND GENERAL ~:ELFA~E. OF THE E~PLOYEES
OF T~[E CITY OF BAEEi~SFIEID, RELATING TO IN-
JURIES SUST~,II~BD BY ER~LOYEES IN THE COURSE
OF TP. EIR Er,~PLOYMENT, A~[D TO PROVIDE COMPENSA-
TION THEMEFOR, IN ADDITION TO THAT PROVIDED
BY ~HE WORt~EN 'S '~OB"PENSATION INSURANCE AND
SAFETY ACT, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAIN1,.~D BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CI.qY OF BAtGE~SFIELD,
as follows:
SECTION 1.
An employee shall be defined to mean and include any
person who has been employed to work for the City of Bakersfield
on a salary or daily wages, and who has not resigned or who has
not been discharged from such service either before or after the
injury. hereinafter mentioned.
SEC TI ON 2.
If' andwhen an employee shall have received compensation
by an award of the Industrial Accident Commission of the State of
California, or shall receive compensation from the Insurance Fund
of the State of ~slifornia for any injury he has sustained while
in the course of his emplo.Vment by the City of Bakersfield, such
employee may make application to the City Manager on forms nro-
vided by the City of Bakersfield, for additional compensation,
payable by said City under the schedule as follows:
For the 1st month full salary less the amount
paid by the Insurance Fund of the State of
California.
For the 2n~ month an amount which shall equal
90% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the State of California.
For the 3rd month an amount which shall equal
80% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the State of California.
For the 4th month an amount which shall equal
70% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the State of California. -
For the 5th month an a~.nount which shall equal
60% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the am. ount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the .State of California.
For the 8th month an amount which shall eaual
50% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the State of California'.
For the 7th month an amount which shall eeual
40% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the State of California.
For the 8th month an amount which shall eoual
30% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the St~te of California.
For the 9th month an amount which shall ecual
20% of the difference between his monthly
salary and .the amount allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the S,,ate of C~lifornia.
For the lOth month an amount which shall e~ual
10% of the difference between his monthly
salary and the amoont allowed by the Insurance
Fund of the State of California.
After the lOth monthly payment no extra compensation
shall be allowed by the City of Bakersfield.
Said payments to be made only upon the application of
the employee and approved by the City E~anager, and to continue
as per said schedule, provided, however, that in case the City
Manager refuses to approve any application for additional com-
pensation, then the employee making said appli.~.ation may appeal
to the Council, and its findings shall be final and conclusive,
and provided, further, that the City Council may at any time
discontinue payments as per said schedule or otherwise, when in
its opinion said payments should stop, and provided further that
in no case shall said payments be continued after death of said
employee or after pa.Vments shall have ceased by said Insurance.
Fund of the State of California.
And provided further that there shall be deducted from
the amount paid under the foregoing schedule any sum that may
become due and payable to said employee from any City pension
t~d during the tinge that said employee is claiming e~tra corn-
pensation.
SECTION 3.
Upon the filing and allowance of any claim as above
provided, the Auditor of the City of Bakersfield shall draw his
warrant upon the Treasurer of the ~ity of Bakers field each
successive month as the same shall become due and payable, and
the Treasurer of the City of Bakersfield shall, upon Dresenta-
tion of said warrant, pay the same out of the fund of the City
of Bakersfield from which the salary of the injured employee has
formerly been' paid.
SECTION 4.
It shall be khe duty of my employee claiming compensa-
tion hereunder to notify the City Manager and the Auditor of the
City of Bakers field immediately upon the termination by the
Insurance Fund of the State of California, or otherwise, of his
compensation for such injuries.
SECTI ON 5.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here-
with are hereby expressly repealed.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY. that the foregoing Ordinance was
passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakers field
at a regular meeting thereof, on the /g~tday of ~,~ay, 1931,
by the following vote:
RYES: BENSON, BODEN, CARLOCK, HERDEN. ,1OHNSON, MARTIN, Y,'Rk a IM
MOES: ..... _?~~J~__,/Z,~
RB.SENT:
City Clerk and Ex-0fficio Clerk of
the Council of the City of Bakers-
field.
APPHOVED this /~ay of ~.a3~, 1931.
MAYdR of the City of Bakersfield.